Molecular and Cellular Behavior

A voltage-gated sodium ion channel opens when there is a change in the voltage of the membrane and allows sodium ions to flow across its electrochemical gradient. These voltage-gated channels are made up of amino acids and they aid in generating and moving an action potential down a membrane or axon (Brooker, Robert, 106).

24.Which of the following are common means by which binding of an intercellular chemical messenger with a cell’s receptor brings about an intracellular response?

* A ) (1) neurotransmitter released (2) diffused across the synaptic cleft to a receptor protein (3) binding of the transmitter opens pores in the ion channels and positive ions move in.

Almost every aspect of biology involves interaction between different components and systems. It starts all the way at the cellular level with the interactions of cell organelles that allow a cell to function and it goes all the way up to the way different ecosystems come together to form complex communities and interactions. It is these interactions that make biological systems complex and how cells are specialized in one animal affects the way that animal interacts with the others around it. These interactions create ever changing and unique properties that make organisms function in the way in which they do so.

Peptides hormones are usually large and hydrophilic charged, and cannot diffuse across a plasma membrane. Therefore the receptors they bind to are on the cell surface. When the peptide hormone binds to the receptor of the cells surface of the target cell it activates the receptor and as a result transmit a signal to the cellular interior. The purpose of this signal can be to turn on a protein kinase that phosphorylates (which is a modification of proteins in which an amino acid residue is phosphorylated) specific proteins and alter their activity however it could also release a second messenger into the cell this cell can be calcium, this amplifies the signal and changes many different cellular

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Lastly, carrier proteins affect whether a molecule will be able to pass through a biological membrane. Carrier proteins are used if a molecule is too large to pass through channels. If there are many carriers, then not only the process will be quick but it will also allow more molecules to come in.

Introduction: Cell membranes contain many different types of molecules which have different roles in the overall structure of the membrane. Phospholipids form a bilayer, which is the basic structure of the membrane. Their non-polar tails form a barrier to most water soluble substances. Membrane proteins serves as channels for transport of metabolites, some act as enzymes or carriers, while some are receptors. Lastly carbohydrate molecules of the membrane are relatively short-chain polysaccharides, which has multiple functions, for example, cell-cell recognition and acting as receptor sites for chemical signals.

Cells likewise speak with each other all the more straightforwardly through the items that they discharge. For example, a neuron cell transfers an electrical heartbeat using neurotransmitters . The neurotransmitters are put away in vesicles and lie beside the cytoplasmic face of the plasma layer. At the point when the proper flag is given, the vesicles holding the neurotransmitters must reach the plasma film and emit their substance into the synaptic intersection, the space between two neurons, for the other neuron to get those neurotransmitters.

Four ways that large molecules and substances are transported across a membrane include phagocytosis, pinocytosis, receptor-mediated endocytosis and receptor proteins. During phagocytosis, the cell engulfs a particle by wrapping pseudopodia around the particle and packing the particle within the food vacuole (membranous sac). Once the food vacuole integrates with a lysosome (w/ hydrolytic enzyme), the particle will be digested. The second way is pinocytosis, in which the cell takes in “droplets” of extracellular fluid and packs it into tiny vesicles; after this, the tiny vesicles are then transported into the cell because the molecules dissolved in the droplets are the main factors that the cells need. The third process is known as receptor-mediated endocytosis which the cells takes in large quantities of specific substances of all concentration in the Extracellular (EC) fluid; the membranes of the cell vesicle are embedded with proteins that has certain receptor sites that are exposed to the EC fluid in which ligand binds to. Then, the last step is that the receptor proteins cluster in regions of the membrane known as coated pits which contain fuzzy layer of coat proteins on the exterior; then, each coated pit forms a vesicle which contains the ligand molecules and after the ingested material is released from the vesicle, the vesicles then recycle the receptors to the plasma

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The objective of this lab was to learn how to identify diffusion and osmosis, through selectively permeable membranes. Diffusion is the process in which particles move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. When water enters or leaves a cell, it is called osmosis, which is the same process as diffusion, but solely focused on water. Certain membranes allow only particular chemicals to pass. These are called selectively permeable membranes.

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Why do sodium ions need channels in order to move into and out of cells? The sodium ions need channels in order to move into and out of the cell because if the cell let any type of ion in, the cell would become toxic. This is why nerve cells regulate the amount of ions that enter and leave the cell. Also creating the negative resting potential of a nerve cell, which can “fire” an action potential and conduct nerve impulses.

Receptor dimers are receptor complexes formed by two covalently or non-covalently bound receptor subunits. Receptor dimerisation regulates signal transduction in various receptors or alter pharmacology. The Enzyme linked transmembrane receptors (they dimerise only when bound by a ligand to cause activation via autophosphorylation), The G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) (they form constitutive dimers to mask the E.R retention motif on the C- terminal) and The intracellular receptors (They form dimers after binding with the ligand).