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Linking nutrients to growth

Nature volume 454, pages 287–288 (2008)Cite this article

How cells sense nutrients to control growth is largely unknown. One missing link involved in conveying the nutrient signal to the TOR protein, which regulates growth, seems to be the Rag proteins.

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Figure 1: Passing on the message.

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