PHAR 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cell Signaling, Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate, Adipocyte

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20 Sep 2019

School

Queen's University

Department

Pharmacology and Toxicology

Course

PHAR 340

Professor

Thomas Massey

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Outside of cell, few can get across membrane. Signal reception amplification transduction response. Depends on receptor, could use enzymes or act directly. Turns signal from a few agonists into massive increase in second messengers. Trivial event at membrane, amplify to dampen unimportant information. If only 1 signal, hard to differentiate b/w signal and noise. Agents act on one cell but several agents can activate the same pathway via different cells. No, binding is trivial, talk for a short time to turn on enzyme, now info can be. Through receptors to determine if they should let things through e. g. in vessel, let wbcs out to infection. Help cell know where they are e. g. stem cells develop based on environment, will fail if they"re not where they"re supposed to be e. g. heart has different ec proteins than liver. Make a pocket for drug to fit into. Stimulate enzymes that generate second messengers (camp, ip3)

Related Questions

Second messengers play an important role in cellcommunication.

Which of the following best describes their role?

		None
		integrate, amplify and distribute messages throughout thecell
		Release messages to other cells?
		Receive information at the cell surface

What is true of disulfide bonds?

	a.	They often occur in the cytosol
	b.	They are a noncovalent bond
	c.	They are formed enzymatically in the ER
	d.	They act as reducing agents
	e.	they increase protein flexibility

Which of the following is NOT an example of a cell communicationmolecule?

		nucleases
		nitric oxide
		hormones
		kinases

What is true of binding pockets?

	a.	They only occur in the membrane
	b.	They occur in unfolded proteins
	c.	They contain electrostatic interactions
	d.	They contain variable amino acids
	e.

What is true of cell signaling?

	a.	Extracellular signals transduced by rectors always alter cellbehavior very quickly
	b.	Some cells require cell signals just to survive
	c.	Cell signals can be interpreted differently by differentcells
	d.	B and C only
	e.	All of the above (A, B and C)

Histone tails can be modified to change the shape and"tightness" of the nucleosomes. Acetylated histones result in whicheffect?

		Open DNA
		increased transcription
		closed DNA
		decreased transcription
		1+2
		1+4
		3+4
		2+3

Shifting the two bound tRNA from the A and P sites to the E andP sites of the ribosome involves:

	a.	The movement of the small ribosome subunit down the mRNAchain
	b.	The degradation of the A site on ribosome
	c.	The synthesis of the E site on the ribosome
	d.	The movement of the large subunit relative to the smallsubunit
	e.	All of the above

Intracellular signaling pathways are awesome! What is the onething they can NOT do?

	a.	relay the signal, to spread it through the cell
	b.	nothing, they can communicate any cellular need
	c.	distribute the signal to more than one effector protein
	d.	integrate the signal from more than one cellular pathway
	e.	Amplify the signal received, making the signal stronger

Specificity of protein/protein and protein/DNA binding isdetermined by what?

		Non-covalent bonds
		Hydrophobic interactions
		Covalent bonds
		shape of the binding site
		all of the above
		none of the above
		1,2,3
		1,2,4
		1,3,4

The coiling structure of the DNA into chromosomes is achieved bywhat?

		alpha helix
		beta pleated sheets
		chaperone proteins
		DNA/Protein complexing

Which regions (s) of the DNA are found in the final protein?

	a.	poly-A tail
	b.	A and B
	c.	Exons
	d.	UTRs
	e.	Introns

Metabolic processes can be turned "on" and "off" by chemicalmodifcation.

Which chemical modification do we associate with changing theactivity of an enzyme in a transient/non-permanent manner?

		Phosphorylation
		Ubiquitination
		Methylation
		Acetylation

DNA hybridization involves attaching a florescent dye towhat?

	a.	Antibody
	b.	Nuclear stain
	c.	Probe DNA
	d.	tRNA
	e.	rRNA

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