lecturen6 Chemical Messengers Flashcards
Intracellular Communication
- Cells communicating with eachother
Types of intercellular communication
- Direct
- Gap junctions: pores (connexons) connecting adajacent cells together - Indirect
- communicate with chemical messengers
classifications of chemical messengers
- Functional
- chemical Properties
- chemical class
What are the different Functional Classification’s
- paracrine
- neurotransmitters
- hormones
Paracrine
chemicals that communicate with neighboring cells (tissue) level
Distance of Paracrine
Short
Mode of transportation for Paracrine
diffusion
What does the paracrine include
Autocrine: chemicals that act on same cell that secrete them
Examples of Paracrine
growth factors, clotting factors, cytokines
What are Neurotransmitter
Chemical released neurons —> synapse—> target cell
Distance of neurotransmitter
Short
Mode of transportation of neurotransmitter?
diffusion
Examples of neurotransmitter??
acetlycholine; nuerotransmitter triggers mucsle cell for contraction (autonomic)
Hormones
Chemicals released from endocrine glands or neurosecretary neuron –> ISF –> Blood
Distance of hormones
Long
Mode of transportation of Hormones
Blood
Chemical properties classification
- Lipophilic: Lipid soluble (nonpolar), Act on receptors inside the cell
- Lipophobic: usually water soluble (polar), acts on receptos on cell membrane
Chemical classes
- Amino Acids
- Amine
- Peptides and proteins
- steroids
- Eicosanoid
Amino Acids
Basic monomer for protein
Chemical property of Amino Acids
lipophobic (membrane)
Functional classification of Amino acids
neurotransmitter (NT)
Examples of Amino Acids
glutamate, aspartate, glycine, GABA
Amine
derived from Amino acids , contains NH2 group
Chemical property of Amine
Lipophobic generally (except for thyroid hormone)
Functional classification of Amine
Paracrine, NT Hormones
Examples of Anime
dopamine, serotnin, norepinephrine, epinephrine, histamine, thyroid hormones
Peptide and protons
chain of amino acids , most common lipophobic
Functional classification of peptides and protons
paracrine, NT, hormones
Examples of Peptides and Protons
cytokines, variety of NT and hormones
Steroids
Derived from cholesterol
What is the chemical property of Steroids
lipophilic
Functional classification of steroids
hormones
Examples of steroids
tertosterone, cortisol, aldosterone, progesterone
Eicosanoids
Derived from arachidonic acid (Fatty acid)
Chemical property of Eicosanoid
lipophilic
Functional classification of Eicosanoid
paracrine
Examples of Eicosanoid
prostaglandin, prostacyclins, thromboxanes, leukotriene
Signal Transduction Mechanism ?
- Source releases aligand (chemical messenger)
- travels to target cell
- Ligand binds to receptors on/in target cell –> functional change
Properties of cell receptors
- Messenger Specific
- Multiple receptor types present on and on cell
- more interactions –> greater the effect
Factors affecting interactions
- messenger concentration
- number of receptors
- affinity
Intracellular mediated response
Receptors: inside the cell
messenger: lipophilic
Response: gene activation or inhibition
Effects in intracellular mediated response
- slow –> protein synthesis takes time
2. Long lasting –> proteins last awhile
Membrane receptor mediated response
Receptors on membrane
messenger: Lipophobic
Categories of membrane receptors
- channel- linked
- Enzymes - linked
- G - protein linked
Channel - Linked
Receptor also acts as a channel
Response: opens channel in membrane
Enzyme Linked
Receptor: also acts as an intracellular enzyme
Response: activates enzyme
G protein Linked
Receptor linked to a group of proteins ( g Protein) in membrane
(moves laterally)
G protein linked Response
Response activates g protien —> activates another membrane bound protein
Second Messenger
Intracellular Molecule produced/ entered as a response to an extracellular messenger
- can amplify a signal
Examples of Second Messenger
Ca2, cyclic AMP (cAMP)
Long distance Communication
Required to regulate all body activities
what is long distance communucation regulated by
- Endocrine System: Releasing of hormones into blood
- Effects moderatly slow - Nervous System: Signal target cells through NT
- effects are fast (1/100 o a sec)