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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999

Introduction
The organization of a cell can be compared to that of a big city such as New York. In order to reach its correct destination, a letter has to be provided with an address label and a zip code, similar to the address tags on proteins.

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These pages are based on material from the 1999 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Poster.
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