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2-protein team would be lost without each other

04-19-2007 · EurekAlert!

Just as a hard-charging person sometimes needs a calming partner to be more effective, so it is with a pair of critical proteins that promote cell division and growth in the rapidly expanding root tip of plants. This emerging picture of the complex interplay between genes and proteins is the latest finding to come from Duke University researchers' examination of the model mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

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