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Nature Cell Biology 1, E93 - E95 (1999)
doi:10.1038/12090
Calcium–myristoyl switches turn on new lights
- Tobias Meyer is in the Departments of Cell Biology, and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
- 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
Abstract
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.

