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Nature Cell Biology 3, E136 - E137 (2001)
doi:10.1038/35078599
Pin-pointing MAPK signalling
Matthew Freeman1
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Matthew Freeman is in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK.
e-mail: MF1@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Abstract
In the Drosophila egg, during signalling through the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor, a conformational switch, which is dependent on mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) leads to the Cf2 transcriptio-nal repressor being targeted for proteolysis. Recent work shows that this switch is catalysed by the Drosophila homologue of Pin1, a peptidyl-prolyl isomerase.

