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Exam 3: Cell-cell interactions (Class 2) Flashcards

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1
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What are the five categories of signaling?

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  1. direct intercellular signaling
  2. contact-dependent signaling
  3. autocrine signaling
  4. paracrine signaling
  5. endocrine signaling
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What is direct intercellular signaling?

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Cell junctions allow signaling molecules to pass from one cell to another at rate of diffusion (via gap junction)

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What type of junctions are used in direct intercellular signaling?

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Gap junctions

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How does contact dependent signaling work?

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Receptors on adjacent cells bind to other cell surface molecules

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What do the cell surface molecules in contact dependent signaling function as?

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Signals

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What is the difference between direct intercellular signaling and contact dependent signaling?

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Direct intercellular: passed from cytoplasm to cytoplasm
Contact dependent: adjacent cell membranes

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What is autocrine signaling?

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Cells secrete signaling molecules that bind to its own surface or other neighboring cells

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What is paracrine signaling?

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Same as autocrine, but no receptors so a cell cannot receive its own signal

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Endocrine signaling

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Signals travel long distance through blood stream, take a long time to fade

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10
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What are the 4 stages of cell signaling?

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  1. Signal reception
  2. Signal processing/transduction
  3. Signal response
  4. Signal deactivation
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What occurs in signal reception (step 1)?

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Signal receptors are bound

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What are the two type of signals

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  1. Hormones
  2. Other cell-cell signals
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The presence of what dictates which cells will be able to respond to a particular hormone

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appropriate receptor proteins

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What does protein function depend on? (3 factors)

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  1. Binding
  2. Shape
  3. Location
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When the signal binds to the receptor, what happens to the receptor

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It undergoes a conformational change

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16
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Signal receptors that bind to lipid-soluble hormones are located where

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Inside the cell

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17
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Signal receptors that bind to non lipid-soluble hormones are located where

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in the plasma membrane

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18
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Lipid-soluble steroid hormones are ___ soluble in water

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less

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Estrogen, progesterone, glucocorticoids, and ecdysone are examples of what

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hormone response elements

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20
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The hormone receptor complex binds to…

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the hormone response elements (HRE)

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21
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Where is the hormone-receptor complex transported to and for what

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the nucleus, for altering gene expression

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22
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Are lipid-soluble hormones hydrophilic or hydrophobic

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hydrophobic

23
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Are lipid-insoluble hormones hydrophilic or hydrophobic

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hydrophilic

24
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When a signal binds at the cell surface, it triggers a complex series of events called a …

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signal transduction pathway

25
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After the receptor undergoes a conformational change once a lipid-insoluble hormone binds to it, what happens

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A secondary messenger is released

26
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What happens once the second messenger is released

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It can be amplified

27
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Signal transduction moves information from where to where

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From the cell surface to the nucleus/other targets

28
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What are the three kinds of cell surface receptors?

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  1. G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR)
  2. Enzyme-linked receptors
  3. Ligand-gated ion channels
29
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All of the three kinds of cell surface receptors are what type of membrane protein

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Integral

30
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How many transmembrane segments do GPCRs have?

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7

31
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When G-proteins are bound to GTP, the G-protein is ___

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on

32
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When G-proteins are not bound to GTP, the G-protein is ___

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off

33
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What is the first step for GPCRs

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Signal received

34
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What is the second step for GPCRs

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G protein binds GTP and splits

35
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What is the third step for GPCRs

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The activated G protein binds to an enzyme, which catalyzes the production of a secondary messenger

36
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GPCRs are found in all _____ and are common in _____

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eukaryotes, animals

37
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What are the two parts of an enzyme-linked receptor?

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Extracellular domain and intracellular domain

38
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Which domain of enzyme-linked receptors binds the signal?

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Extracellular

39
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Which domain of enzyme-linked receptors becomes a functional catalyst?

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Intracellular

40
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Most enzyme-linked receptors are ___

A

kinases

41
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What are the two types of receptor kinases?

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  1. Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK)
  2. Receptor serine/threonine kinase (RSTK)
42
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What is the first step of RTK catalyzing a reaction?

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Hormone binds to an RTK, signal received

43
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What is the second step of RTK catalyzing a reaction?

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RTK forms a dimer and is phosphorylated by ATP

44
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What is the third step of RTK catalyzing a reaction?

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Ras protein exchanges its GDP for GTP, while it is bridged to RTK

45
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What is the fourth step of RTK catalyzing a reaction?

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Ras protein triggers the phosphorylation and activation of another protein

46
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What is the fifth step of RTK catalyzing a reaction?

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Phosphorylation cascade amplifies the signal many times

47
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What is phosphorylation cascade?

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Sequence pathway where one enzyme phosphorylates another and so on

48
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Which type of cell surface receptor is found both in plant and animal cells?

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Ligand-gated ion channels

49
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What is another name for a signal

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ligand

50
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What happens when a ligand binds to a ligand-gated ion channel

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The ion channel opens and ions flow in through the membrane

51
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In animals, synaptic signals are between ___ and _____ or between two _____

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Neurons and muscles or between two neurons

52
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What are three examples of signal response (stage 3)?

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  1. change enzyme activity
  2. change function of structural proteins
  3. change gene expression or regulation
53
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What are two factors that can alter signal deactivation

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  1. concentration of hormones
  2. number and activity of signal receptors

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