Cells and Organelles-Detection of extracellular signals

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  • Created on: 22-03-13 09:53
What are the factors affecting receptor binding?
specificity, brief and reversible binding, affinity, location of binding,
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What does the strength of the response depend on?
concentration of messenger/ligand, number of receptors per target cell, receptor affinity for messenger
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What is a receptor agonist?
binds to receptor and mimics the normal response.
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What is a receptor antagonist?
binds to receptor and don’t produce a response, competes with normal ligand.
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What is down regulation?
receptor number decreases on target, results from excess messenger. sensitivity to messenger decreases and the tolerance develops
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What are intracellular receptors?
receptors for lipophilic messengers located in cytosol or the nucleus of target cells.
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What are cell surface receptors?
Receptors for lipophobic messengers that cannot permeate the plasma membrane
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Name three other receptors
ion-channel coupled receptors, g protein coupled receptors, enzyme coupled receptors
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What are cytoplasmic receptors?
activated by ligands they enter the nucleus through nuclear pores complexes.
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What are nuclear receptors?
nuclear receptor superfamily, -steroid hormone receptors, -non-steroid receptors, -orphan nuclear receptors.
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What is the structure of the nuclear receptor?
DNA-binding domains AF1 and AF2: transcription Activation Function 1 and 2 NLS : Nuclear localization sequence
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