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In
1994, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to Rodbell
and Alfred G. Gilman of
the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for the discovery
of G-proteins
and their role in signal transduction
in cells.
Gilman provided a critical piece of the puzzle. He isolated the
transducer molecules and defined their structure. Because they were
proteins that bind GTP, Gilman called them G-proteins.
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