Receptors for chemical messengers are proteins or glycoproteins located either inside the cell or, much more commonly, in the plasma membrane. The binding of a messenger by a receptor manifests specificity, saturation, and competition?

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Q: A signal transduction pathway leads to the regulation of one or more cellular activities. What does…

A: Signal transduction includes the binding of ligand to a receptor.

Q: How is ligand-receptor interactions different from enzyme-substrate reactions  and in which ways are…

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Q: Which three amino acid residues can be phosphorylated by kinases? What property do these amino acids…

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Q: Most hormones, such as peptide hormones, exert their effects by binding to cell- surface receptors.…

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Q: Why do signaling responses that involve changesin proteins already present in the cell occur in…

A: Signaling responses that involve changes in proteins already present in the cell occur in…

Q: This pertains to membrane transport and cell signaling. Give an example in animals and in plants…

A: Cell signaling is a process in which cells communicate with each other within the body. There are…

Q: Which of the following statements about G proteins is correct? O A. G proteins bind hormones. O B. G…

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Q: Which of the following is NOT in common between GPCRS and RTKS? Both receptors are activated upon…

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Q: What role does phosphorylation of tyrosine residues play in the action of receptor proteins? And why…

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Q: What happens if a cell is missing a receptor for a particular signaling molecule?

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Q: Explain The Sevenless signaling pathway?

A: Sevenless signalling pathway is also known as Receptor Tyrosine Kinase pathway (RTK). RTK is a…

Q: When a signal transduction pathway involves a phosphorylation cascade, how does the cell’s response…

A: The binding of ligand to the receptor allows the cell for signal transduction. The line of events…

Q: Which of the listed signal transdu pathways is initiated with a lipid- chemical messenger? A…

A: A chemical or physical signal is transmitted through a cell as a series of molecular events, the…

Q: This question pertains to membrane transport and cell signaling.  What are kinases and phosphatases?…

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Q: What are the possible outcomes of cell signaling?

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Q: List several responses a cell might have to a signalingmolecule.

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Q: The binding of a _______________ and its __________________ initiates the particular event or series…

A: The binding of a ____LIGAND___________ and its ______RECEPTOR____________ initiates the particular…

Q: Ligand binding and response. The following question involves the ligand binding to a receptor and…

A: Introduction Ligand-binding to a receptor is given by θ=[L][L]+Kdwhere, θ is the measure of ligand…

Q: For cell signaling, write the general process of how a hydrophilic signal is received and…

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Q: Explain how G protein enzymatic activity and signaling activity relates to guanine nucleotides.

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Q: Why does signaling always involve a cascade of multiple enzymatic reactions?

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Q: Lipid-soluble signaling molecules, such as aldosterone, cross the membranes of all cells but affect…

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Q: Briefly explain how integral membrane proteins can participate in intracellular signaling.

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Q: What is the function of a phosphatase? a. A phosphatase removes phosphorylated amino acids from…

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Q: Which is incorrect regarding ligand–protein binding reactions?a. Allosteric modulation of the…

A: The correct option is a. Allosteric modulation of the protein's binding site occurs directly at the…

Q: In the regulation of enzyme activity by phosphorylation (as discussed in class), the introduction of…

A: Introduction: Enzymes are proteins that increase the rate of chemical reactions that occurs in the…

Q: What is the first step in the action of a messenger on a cell?

A: An intercellular messenger is a chemical released by the cell that has the ability to influence…

Q: when a chemical messenger (or ligand) reaches a target cell, it binds to a receptor.  A hydrophobic…

A: Cell signalling is the process which leads to changes in the metabolism of a cell.

Q: What amino acids are often phosphorylated by kinases?

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Q: Draw a diagram of a membrane receptor and include the following details. Include a depiction of the…

A: The cell membrane is quasi fluid, elastic, pliable, and thin partitions over and inside the…

Q: Which of the following are the common features for both adenylate cyclase and guanylyl cyclase? a)…

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Q: As an intracellular messenger molecule, explain the role of Ca2+ ion? (( cell signaling book ,…

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Q: What will happen if an antagonistic compound disrupts the cellular machinery and prohibited the…

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Q: In an NMR experiment, if a ligand is added to a protein and formed a ligand-protein complex, almost…

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Q: Phospholipase C targets the molecule O A. DAG for cleavage into two subunits. O B. PIP2 OC. PKA O D.…

A: Phospholipase is a plasma membrane bound enzyme which is activated by G-protein coupled receptors.…

Q: why are steroids so useful as signaling molecules?

A: Hormones released into the bloodstream from endocrine gland cells and special cells in the…

Q: If a cell wants to directly affect transcription of genes by utilizing cell signaling which of the…

A: Signalling molecules or ligands  are those which carries the specific information. Signalling…

Q: There is a relatively high concentration of phosphatidylcholine on the lumenal side of the ER…

A: Phosphatidylcholine is a type of phospholipid and forms a major component of biological membranes.…

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Q: What happens after a signaling molecule binds to its receptor and flips a molecular switch?

A: The cell detects its signal, a nearby cell detects its compatible receptor for that signal. The…

Q: Which of the following would be considered second messengers of a signaling pathway?   Select…

A: In cell signalling, binding of extracellular signalling molecules to the cell surface leads to…

Q: c) Jean-François is studying a specific protein in a research laboratory. he observed that this…

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Q: How does integrin play role in cell signaling?

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Q: Why do you suppose that phosphorylation/dephosphorylation, as opposed to allosteric binding ofsmall…

A: When a phosphate molecule is added to a polar alkyl (R) group of an amino acid residue, a…

Osmosis

In simple words, osmosis is the slow, gradual movement of a liquid through a membrane. But there are nuances to this process. For instance, there has to be an imbalance in the distribution of solute in the liquid on either side of the membrane, which has to be semipermeable. The liquid in the region with a lower solute concentration moves to the region with a higher concentration, thereby displacing the solution in the process. The objective is to equalize the concentration of molecules on both sides of the membrane; the displacement of liquid can be viewed as a byproduct of this equalization. Since there is no energy required to carry osmosis, it is considered a passive process.