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Glowing switches

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An approach involving changes in the emission of fluorescence reveals new information about the activation of two important molecular switches in real time and space.

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Figure 1: The technique used by Mochizuki et al.1 to analyse the activation of Ras, a small GTPase enzyme, in real time and space.
Figure 2: Ras and Rap1 are active in different parts of the cell.

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