lecture 9 Flashcards
signal transduction
- conversion of one signal to another
types of signals
growth factors, cytokines, hormones, ECM, neurotransmitters, light sound
small signalling molecules
epinephrine, acetylcholine, steroids, peptides
large signalling moleucles
growth factors, cytokines, proteins
receptors
- cell surface receptors and intracellular receptors
Intracellular signaling proteins:
G proteins, protein kinases/phosphatases, etc.
Different forms of cell signalling: endocrine, paracrine, autocrine, cell-cell.
endocrine, paracrine, autocrine, cell-cell
signalling molecules act locally or at a distance
endocrine
tissue produces the ligand that enters the blood stream to act at a distance
paracrine
once cell secretes a ligand that acts on an adjacent target cell and moves only a short distance
autocrine
cell produces a ligand and expresses a receptor itself (self-stimulation)
signal by plasma membrane attached proteins
cell produces transmembrane protein that can act on adjacent target cell that has cell surface receptor
epinephrine
both endocrine and paracrine singlaing
EGF
- autocrine, cell-cell or paracrine
types of nuclear receptors in nuclear-receptor superfamily
- thyroxine receptor
- rteinoic acid receptor
** involves phobic signalling molecules
cytoplasmic receptors in nuclear receptor superfamily
- estrogen receptor
- progesterone receptor
- glucoroctioic recepotr
Signal Transduction overview of process
Primary messenger or molecules.
Signaling of cell-surface receptors.
Short-term and long-term intracellular responses.
effector proteins (metabolic enzymes to alter metabolism, alter gene expressionn or alter cell shape or movement)
Termination of cellular response.
slow behaviour changes in target cell
- gene regulated changes in cell growth and division
faster behvaviour hangs in target cell
- changes in ion transport, cell movement, secretion or metabolism