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Molecular monogamy

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The interactions between cellular proteins must be highly specific, or cells will stop functioning. Some clever protein-manipulation experiments have revealed how this specificity has evolved in yeast.

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Figure 1: How organisms achieve specificity of protein–protein interactions.

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  1. Department of Biology and the Division of Biological Engineering,

    Drew Endy & Michael B. Yaffe

  2. Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02139-4307, Massachusetts, USA

    Drew Endy & Michael B. Yaffe

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Endy, D., Yaffe, M. Molecular monogamy. Nature 426, 614–615 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/426614a

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