Magnesium articles within Nature

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• News & Views | 27 July 2011

  Magnesium in a signalling role

  Magnesium binds to enzymes and nucleic acids and is essential for their activity. It emerges that this ion can also function as a signalling molecule with a crucial role in the immune system. See Article p.471

  • Ning Wu
  •  & André Veillette

• Article | 27 July 2011

  Second messenger role for Mg²⁺ revealed by human T-cell immunodeficiency

  • Feng-Yen Li
  • , Benjamin Chaigne-Delalande
  •  & Michael J. Lenardo