Cell to Cell Communication Flashcards
how do cells and tissues “know” how to develop
induction and competence
- proteins made by a cell or group of cells that alter the behavior and differentiation of adjacent
- inter- and intracellular signals
paracrine factors
response to signals at the molecular level
signal transduction/ signal transduction cascades
communication between cells requires (2)
- ligand
- receptor protein
the signaling molecule
ligand
the molecule to which the receptor binds; maybe on the plasma membrane or within the cell
receptor protein
types of cell signaling (4) - depending on how far
- ________: cell targets itself
- ________: short distance
- ________: long distance
4: ________: gap junction
- autocrine signaling
- paracrine signaling
- endocrine signaling
- juxtacrine/direct signaling
Types of binding
1. ________ - identical receptor or adhesion molecule
2. ________- different receptor or adhesion molecule
- homophilic
- heterophilic
Types of receptors (2)
- __________: within the cell (cytoplasm) and respond to hydrophobic ligand molecules (ex: steroid hormones)
- __________: integral proteins (at membrane) that bind to external signaling molecules and perform signal transduction. hydrophilic ligand molecules
- Internal receptor (intracellular or cytoplasmic receptors)
- Cell-surface receptors (transmembrane receptor)
Receptor types (3 subclasses of cell-surface receptors)
- __________: ion channel that opens in response to a ligand (ex: Na channel)
- __________: receptor is an enzyme that is activated by the ligand
- _________: a G-protein (bound to GTP) assists in transmitting the signal
- channel linked receptors
- enzymatic receptors
- G protein-coupled receptor
Three stages of signal transduction
- _________ of extracellular signal
- ________ of signal from outside of cell to inside of cell-often multi stepped
- __________. Is initiated and/or occurs entirely within receiving cell
- reception
- transduction
- cellular response
- interaction at close range between two or more cell tissues with different histories and properties
- has two parts:
- induction
- inducer
- responder
tissue that produces signal that changes the cellular behavior of the other tissue
inducer
tissue being induced; the target tissue
responder
- the ability of a cell or tissue to respond to a specific inductive signal (Waddington 1940)
- actively acquired (and can also be transient)
competence
Induction - Vertebrate Eye Development
- ______ are outgrowings of the brain which make contact with the ___________ and this contact induces changes necessary for futher development of the eye
- _____________ ( tissue thickening) induced in head ectoderm by close contact with neural (brain) tissue.
- The developing lens then induces brain to form the ________ (will develop into the pigmented retina and neural retina).
- optic vesicles, surface ectoderm
- lens placode
- optic cup
needed for normal induction of lens (2)
- presence of optical vesicle
- ectodermal competence
Factors that enable a cell or tissue to respond to an inductive signal. These can be actively acquired and may be transient.
Competence factor
**Competence factor **
- is a competence factor for lens inductions
- its expressed in the head ectoderm, but not in other regions of surface ectoderm.
- is needed for the surface ectoderm to respond to the inductive signal from the optic vesicles; the inducing tissue does not need it
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