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Nature 416, 133-136 (14 February 2002) | doi:10.1038/416133a

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Signal transduction: Molecular ticket to enter cells

Shlomo Oved & Yosef Yarden

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Just as important as starting cellular signalling pathways is switching them off again. It seems that the Cbl protein has a dual function in accelerating the degradation of certain signalling molecules.

The cells that make up our bodies live in tight-knit communities and communicate with each other almost constantly. They often do so by using messenger molecules such as growth factors; when these molecules bind to receptors on the cell surface, they activate a plethora of cellular processes that set specific gene programmes in motion.

  1. Shlomo Oved and Yosef Yarden are in the Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.

Correspondence to: Yosef Yarden e-mail: Email: yosef.yarden@weizmann.ac.il