(L16) Receptors and Cell Signaling Flashcards
What is endocrine signaling? What are examples? L16 S8
Signal is: -transported via blood stream -long distance -long-lived Examples: -epinephrine
What is paracrine signaling? What are examples? L16 S9
Signal is: -local, diffuses to nearby cells -short-lived Examples: -testosterone
What is autocrine signaling? What are examples? L16 S10
Signal is: -directed secreting cell and neighboring cells of the same type Examples: -chemokines -growth factors in tumors, interlukin 1 (produved by T lymcytes which prote tier own replication udring an immune response)
What is juxtacrine signaling? What are examples? L16 S11
Signal is: -attached to signaling cell and requires direct contact between signaling cell and target cell Examples: -heparin binding epidermal gf (in immune cells)
Also known as direct signaling.
What are the characteristics of hydrophilic signals? L16 S15
- Unable to cross cell membrane
- Receptors on are surface of target cells (GPCR, RTK)
- Use second messengers inside the cell
- Short-lived (seconds to mins)
- signals are small, derived from AA, polypeptides or through lipid metabolism
What are the characteristics of lipophilic signals? L16 S16
- Able to cross cell membrane
- Receptors inside of target cells (cytoplasmic or nuclear)
- molecule-receptor complex acts as transcription factor that acts on DNA or associated proteins
- Long-lived Mostly categorized as hormones
What is the general structure of a GPCR? L16 S19
What is another name for GPCR?
- Extracellular domain (ECD): -binds signal
- Transmembrane domain (TM): -7 α helicies Intracellular domain : will undergo confermational change upon binding of ligand
- (ICD): -interacts with G protein
Another name for GPCR: are 7 TM protein
What is the general GPCR signaling pathway.
- ECD of GPCR binds ligand causing conformation change
- ICD of GPCR exchanges GDP for GTP on G protein, activating it -G protein interacts with membrane bound effector protein generating second messengers
- second messengers interact with target creating biological response
What is the structure of a G protein? What happens to each portion after being activated? L16 S24
Subunits: -α -β -γ
-α subunit has GDP exchanged for GTP upon activation. (when inactive it is bound to GDP)
It also breaks away from the β and γ subunits to interact with effector protein
-ACTIVATION IS A TRANSFER
How can signals be desensitized? L16 S25
- drop in hormone levels
- remove secondary signaling molecule (phosphodiesterase will remove camp/cgmp)
- sequester receptor (forms endosomes that later refuses with cell membrane)
- destroy receptor (forms endosomes that fuses with lysosome, only happens if the receptor is damaged)
What are the different secondary effector methods of GPCR signaling? L16 S28
Gs: -ligand activates makes alpha GTP
- alpha subunit activates adenylate cyclase producing cAMP
- cAMP activated PKA -cAMP removed by phosphodiesterase
Gi:
- ligand activates
- alpha subunit inhibits adenylayte cyclase
- cAMP is not produced and PKA is not activated
Gt: -light activates makeing alpha GTP
- alpha GTP activates cGMP
- cGMP phosphodiesterase removing cGMP
Gq:
- ligand activates
- activates PLC cleaving PIP into IP3 (activates Ca+ signaling) and DAG (activates PKC)
What is the effect of hydrolyzing cyclic nucleotides and what happens when this process is inhibited? L16 S30 Panini pg. 100
Cyclic nucleotides act as secondary messengers so hydrolyzing them stops their downstream biological activity. When hydrolysis is inhibited, the secondary messenger increase in concentration and increase the downstream biological effect.
What is the effect of cholera toxin? L16 S31 Panini pg. 100
Overly activates Gsα by decreasing its GTPase activity preventing it from being inactivated. Stimulates adenylate cyclase.. This is because ADP is riboslyated in the Gsalpha ARG.
-over abundance of camp causes intestinal cells to open Cl- channels, causes a loss of eletrolytes and water which causes diarrhea
What is the effect of pretussis toxin? L16 S33
Inhibits Giα preventing inhibition of adenylate cyclase because of ribosylation of Cys on Gia
- less inhibiton of AC and hense over production of camp
- in airway epithelial cells pertussis, toxin causes loss of fluids and excesive mucous secretion which presents as whooping cough
What is the effect of NO? L16 S34
- NO is produced in epitelial cells by arginine and is repsonsible for smooth muscle relaxation
- it diffuses into nehiboring muscles and activates guanylate cyclase which makes cGMP –> resluts in vasodilation and smooth muscle relaxation
- NTG AND OTHER nitrates decompose to form NO and help to lower BP
- patients that take nitrates should not drugs that inhibit cGMP which can cause extreme vasodilation and fatal drops in BP