G-protein Signaling: Satisfying the Basic Necessities of Life

Overview

Journal Curr Biol

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2000 Dec 15

PMID 11114530

Citations 7

Authors

T M Wilkie

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Abstract

Recent studies have shed light on the role of G-protein signaling, and in particular the regulatory RGS proteins, in behavioral adaptations of the round worm Caenorhabditis elegans; similar signaling pathways underlie analogous physiology and behaviors in mammals.

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