Artist's Concept of Dynamic Notch Signaling (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Artist's Concept of Dynamic Notch Signaling

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This is an artist's concept of a cell expressing the Delta1 ligand (left) and a cell expressing the Delta4 ligand (right). While these two ligands activate cellular receptors in the same way, they do so in different patterns over time. In this way, a receiving cell can decode instructions.

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Caltech

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