Many of the external signals reaching a cell are transmitted through G proteins, which lie just inside the cell membrane. New crystal structures shed light on how the complex works.
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Clapham, D. The G-protein nanomachine. Nature 379, 297–299 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/379297a0
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