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Metabolism meets death

Nature volume 424, pages 896–897 (2003)Cite this article

A protein that controls cell death has been found in a complex with a protein involved in glucose metabolism. Is this a point of contact between these two crucial cellular processes?

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Figure 1: A point of integration for glucose metabolism and cell death?

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