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Cell Communication Flashcards

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Direct Contact Communication

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2 cells directly communicating

–they have to touch

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Types of Direct Contact Communication

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  • Gap Junctions / Plasmadesmata

- Cell Recognition

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Cell Recognition

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involves proteins in the membrane.

-the proteins recognize each other and often a reaction happens with an enzyme

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Functional Syncytium

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All the cells are functioning as one unit

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Local Signaling

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Paracrine signaling
autocrine signaling
Synaptic Signaling

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Paracrine Signaling

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A cell releases a signal affecting all kinds of cells in an area
-the cell secretes a chemical that affects nearby cells through the interstitial fluid

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Autocrine Signaling

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a cell releases a signal affecting cells that are the same type

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Synaptic Signaling

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nerve cells release neurotransmitters directly onto target cells
-Affects one and only one cell

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synapse

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association between two cells (synaptic cleft)

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Long- Distance Signaling

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Endocrine (hormone)

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Endocrine

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Hormones are the chemical signal

  • the cell releases the hormone into the blood
  • it is systemic
  • only targets cells that have receptors
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Systemic

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the whole body

–it will travel everywhere in the body

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the 3 stages of cell signaling

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  1. Reception
  2. Transduciton
  3. Cell Response
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Reception

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Signal molecules (Ligand) bind to protein receptors on the target cell membrane.
--it is very specific
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Ligand

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is the chemical signal in reception

  • hormones (protein or amino acid bases)
  • neurotransmitters
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Receptors

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  • Proteins
  • specific (shape)
  • shape changes when the Ligand binds–initiates transduction
  • the receptor determines the response more than the ligand
  • -they will set off different transduction pathways in different cells
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Types of Receptors

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  • Ion Channel Receptors
  • Tyrosine Kinases
  • G protein-coupled receptor
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Ion Channel Receptor

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Protein is the receptor and ion channel

-the binding of the ligand causes the channel to open

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Receptor Tyrosine Kinases

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  • Come in pairs
  • receptor tyrosine phosphoralates proteins
  • receptor is a kinase which in turn activates proteins
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G protein-coupled receptor

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  • receptor activates G protein (uses GDP to activate)

- G protein activates the enzyme

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Transduction

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Interactions/chemical reactions relaying the signal from the receptor to the target molecule

  • can be very simple process of a long pathway of reactions
    1. Phosphorylation/Dephosphorylation
    2. Second Messengers
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Phosphorylation / Dephosphorylation

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addition or removal of a phosphate group to a protein to activate / deactivate it

  • Kinases- Phosphorolayte
  • Phosphates- dephosphorlayte enzymes
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Second Messengers

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small, non-protein, water-soluble, molecules, or ions

-often initiated by G protein-coupled receptors

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Types of Second Messengers

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  • Cyclic AMP

- Calcium Ions (Ca++)

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Cyclic AMP

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they are cycle shaped AMP

- APT—–AMP ATP, gives off 2 phosphates to make AMP

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Calcium Ions (Ca++)

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Always maintained at low to negligible concentration in the cytosol
-pulled in form outside the cell or released from within the cell from enclosed membrane storage sights when calcium is needed

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Response

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Will vary depending on the Ligand/receptor/cell

  • make more or less of something
  • movement
  • increase/decrease cells function
  • -very specific
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Termination of signal / response

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Varies with ligand/responses

  • ligand- re-sequestered by cell, dissipate, brokendown…
  • Response- Components of transduction used up or feedback mechanisms
29
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Exception to Ligand-Reception communication

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Steroid Hormones

  • they are lipid soluble compounds that can pass right through the cell membrane
  • they go directly to the nucleus and affect the DNA
  • -makes new proteins or stops cells from making new proteins
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APOPTOSIS

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Programmed cell death

  • normal deletion and removal of cells
  • happens to a single select cell
  • external initiation/trigger- chemical signal???
  • -don’t know much about it
  • Internal trigger
  • -DNA damage
  • -problems with protein production
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Necrosis

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Something the body has not intended to happen.

  • Usually happens to many cells in the same area
  • Ruptures the cell membrane
  • Very messie
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Process of APOPTOSIS

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  • Cell releases digestive enzymes
  • cell is broken down into smaller membrane bound fragments
  • phagocytosis of fragments by nearby cells
  • clean no inflamation
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Diseases Affecting APOPTOSIS

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  • Hepatitis B & C
  • Alzheimer’s / Parkinson’s
  • Cancer - APOPTOSIS seems to be turned off

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