Heritable activity: a prion that propagates by covalent autoactivation

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Research has been conducted on infectious proteins prions. The authors demonstrate that yeast protease B is a prion, which is infectious and reversibly curable, and which is induced via pro-protease overexpression.

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Control of cell number by Drosophila FOXO: downstream and feedback regulation of the insulin receptor pathway

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The authors have investigated Drosophila FOXO forkhead-related transcription factor, a component of insulin signaling cascade. The authors discuss the identification and functional characterization of dFOXO.

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A Serrate-expressing signaling center controls Drosophila hematopoiesis

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Research has been conducted on Notch signaling. The authors demonstrate that localized Notch signaling causes early distinction between the crystal cell and plasmatocyte cell.

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