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Nature 390, 123-124 (13 November 1997) | doi:10.1038/36458

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Signal transduction:  Inositol lipid pathways turn turtle

Kath Hinchliffe1 & Robin Irvine1

It seems that there are few limits to the number of molecules and biochemical pathways into which evolution has incorporated myo-inositol. The awesome rate of new inositol phosphates identified in the 1980s was succeeded in the 1990s by a more sedate growth in the number of inositol lipids identified following the discovery of 3-phosphorylated inositol lipids (reviewed in ref. 1

  1. Kath Hinchliffe and Robin Irvine are in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QJ, UK.