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Hill curves hn(u) = un/(1 + un), for n = 1, 2, and 10, illustrating the current view of distributive phosphorylation. The horizontal axis represents some unspecified measure of kinase activity relative to phosphatase activity. The bold curve is the limit as n → ∞: the “perfect switch.”