Cell Communication Chapter 16
- General Principles
- Signal transduction
- cell signaling
- receptors
- signal transduction
- Forms of signaling
- system wide
- endocrine
- Local - only affect local cells
- paracrine
- autocrine
- neuronal signaling
- direct contact
- Binding Specificity
- effector specificity
- measurement
- dissociation constant (Kd)
- Cellular response
- Intracellular Receptors
- Classes
- Actions
- direct
- activate transcription
- domain structure
- general mode of action
- homodimeric receptors
- cytoplasmic receptor
- heterodimeric receptors
- Cell Surface receptors
- Overview
- intracellular signaling pathway
- second messengers
- Functions
- Classes
- Ion-channel-coupled receptors
- G-protein-coupled receptors
- Enzyme-coupled receptors
- Ion-channel-coupled Receptors