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Nature Cell Biology 1, E93 - E95 (1999)
doi:10.1038/12090

Calcium–myristoyl switches turn on new lights

Tobias Meyer1 & John D. York2

  1. Tobias Meyer is in the Departments of Cell Biology, and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
  2. John D. York is in the Departments of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, and Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.

Correspondence to: John D. York2 e-mail: yorkj@acpub.duke.edu


The yeast homologue of the calcium–myristoyl-switch protein frequenin activates a key enzyme in the phosphoinositide signalling cascade, shedding new light on the role of such switch proteins and of calcium signalling.

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