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Nature Genetics 39, 286 - 287 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ng0307-286

Shaping specificity in signaling networks

Réka Albert1 & Zoltán N Oltvai1

  1. Réka Albert is in the Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. e-mail: ralbert@phys.psu.edu
  2. Zoltán N. Oltvai is in the Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA. e-mail: oltvai@pitt.edu


Signaling pathways are frequently connected through shared intracellular molecules, yet they manage to maintain remarkable specificity to distinct stimuli. A new study identifies mechanisms to explain how this specificity is shaped for MAP kinase modules within the yeast signaling network.

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