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What goes up must come down

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The activity of the epidermal-growth-factor receptor is highly regulated during Drosophila development. Two negative-feedback loops involving the proteins Kekkon1 and Sprouty have been found to act by quite different inhibitory mechanisms.

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Figure 1: Two different ways of achieving negative-feedback inhibition of receptor tyrosine kinase signalling pathways.

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    Sally J. Leevers

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Leevers, S. What goes up must come down. Nat Cell Biol 1, E10–E11 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/8960

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