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    Cell signaling allows cells in multicellular organisms to communicate. Signaling molecules can act over long or short distances to transmit signals between cells. Cells receive multiple signals that control processes like survival, proliferation, and differentiation. Key mechanisms of cell signaling include cell surface receptors, nuclear receptors, and intracellular signaling pathways using mechanisms like phosphorylation to transmit signals within the cell.

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    Cell signaling allows cells in multicellular organisms to communicate. Signaling molecules can act over long or short distances to transmit signals between cells. Cells receive multiple signals that control processes like survival, proliferation, and differentiation. Key mechanisms of cell signaling include cell surface receptors, nuclear receptors, and intracellular signaling pathways using mechanisms like phosphorylation to transmit signals within the cell.

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    Cell signaling allows cells in multicellular organisms to communicate. Signaling molecules can act over long or short distances to transmit signals between cells. Cells receive multiple signals that control processes like survival, proliferation, and differentiation. Key mechanisms of cell signaling include cell surface receptors, nuclear receptors, and intracellular signaling pathways using mechanisms like phosphorylation to transmit signals within the cell.

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    TOPIC NAME: CELL SIGNALING

    To make multicellular organisms cell must communicate. This communication


    is mediated by extracellular signal molecules.

    Sofisticated mechanisms control which signal molecules are released from a


    specific type of cell, at what time and concentration they are secreted, and
    how these signals are interpreted by the target cells

    Some signalling molecules act over long distances, some act only on the
    immediate neighbour cells

    Most cells in higher organisms are both emiters and receivers of signals

    Lecture 1: General Principles of Cell Signalling

    • Signals, receptors and mediators

    • The prototypical pheromone signalling pathway of budding yeast

    • Cell surface and intracellular receptors

    • Types of intercellular signalling

    • Nuclear receptor signalling

    • Types of cell surface receptors

    • Molecular switches: signalling through GTPases and protein


    phosphorylation

    Lecture 2: Discovery and elucidation of novel signalling pathways: a case study


    Budding yeast cells responding to mating factor.

    (A) The cells are normally spherical.

    (B) In response to mating factor secreted by neighbouring yeast cells, they


    put out a protrusion toward the source of the factor in preparation for
    mating.

    The binding of extracellular signal molecules to either cell-surface receptors or


    intracellular receptors.

    Most signal molecules are hydrophilic and are therefore unable to cross the
    plasma membrane directly; instead, they bind to cell-surface receptors, which
    in turn generate one or more signals inside the target cell.

    Some small signal molecules, by contrast, diffuse across the plasma membrane
    and bind to receptors inside the target celleither in the cytosol or in the
    nucleus (as shown here). Many of these small signal molecules are
    hydrophobic and nearly insoluble in aqueous solutions; they are therefore
    transported in the bloodstream and other extracellular fluids after binding to
    carrier proteins, from which they dissociate before entering the target cell.

    Forms of intercellular signaling.

    (A) Contact-dependent signaling requires cells to be in direct membrane-


    membrane contact.

    (B) Paracrine signaling depends on signals that are released into the
    extracellular space and act locally on neighboring cells.

    (C) Synaptic signaling is performed by neurons that transmit signals electrically


    along their axons and release neurotransmitters at synapses, which are often
    located far away from the cell body.

    (D) Endocrine signaling depends on endocrine cells, which secrete hormones


    into the bloodstream that are then distributed widely throughout the body.
    Many of the same types of signaling molecules are used in paracrine, synaptic,
    and endocrine signaling; the crucial differences lie in the speed and selectivity
    with which the signals are delivered to their targets.
    The contrast between endocrine and synaptic signaling. In complex animals,
    endocrine cells and nerve cells work together to coordinate the diverse
    activities of the billions of cells. Whereas different endocrine cells must use
    different hormones to communicate specifically with their target cells,
    different nerve cells can use the same neurotransmitter and still communicate
    in a highly specific manner.

    (A) Endocrine cells secrete hormones into the blood, which signal only the
    specific target cells that recognize them. These target cells have receptors for
    binding a specific hormone, which the cells “pull” from the extracellular fluid.

    (B) In synaptic signaling, by contrast, specificity arises from the synaptic


    contacts between a nerve cell and the specific target cells it signals. Usually,
    only a target cell that is in synaptic communication with a nerve cell is exposed
    to the neurotransmitter released from the nerve terminal (although some
    neurotransmitters act in a paracrine mode, serving as local mediators that
    influence multiple target cells in the area).

    An animal cell's dependence on multiple extracellular signals. Each cell type


    displays a set of receptors that enables it to respond to a corresponding set of
    signal molecules produced by other cells. These signal molecules work in
    combinations to regulate the behaviour of the cell. As shown here, an
    individual cell requires multiple signals to survive (blue arrows) and additional
    signals to divide (red arrow) or differentiate (green arrows). If deprived of
    appropriate survival signals, a cell will undergo a form of cell suicide known as
    programmed cell death, or apoptosis.
    The nuclear receptor superfamily. All nuclear hormone receptors bind to DNA
    as either homodimers or heterodimers, but for simplicity we show them as
    monomers here. (A) The receptors all have a related structure. The short DNA-
    binding domain in each receptor is shown in green. (B) A receptor protein in its
    inactive state is bound to inhibitory proteins. Domain-swap experiments
    suggest that many of the ligand-binding, transcription-activating, and DNA-
    binding domains in these receptors can function as interchangeable modules.
    (C) The binding of ligand to the receptor causes the ligand-binding domain of
    the receptor to clamp shut around the ligand, the inhibitory proteins to
    dissociate, and coactivator proteins to bind to the receptor's transcription-
    activating domain, thereby increasing gene transcription. (D) The three-
    dimensional structure of a ligand-binding domain with (right) and without (left)
    ligand bound. Note that the blue α helix acts as a lid that snaps shut when the
    ligand (shown in red) binds, trapping the ligand in place.

    Responses induced by the activation of a nuclear hormone receptor. (A) Early


    primary response and (B) delayed secondary response. The figure shows the
    responses to a steroid hormone, but the same principles apply for all ligands
    that activate this family of receptor proteins. Some of the primary-response
    proteins turn on secondary-response genes, whereas others turn off the
    primary-response genes. The actual number of primary- and secondary-
    response genes is greater than shown. As expected, drugs that inhibit protein
    synthesis suppress the transcription of secondary-response genes but not
    primary-response genes, allowing these two classes of gene transcription
    responses to be readily distinguished.

    Three classes of cell-surface receptors.

    (A) Ion-channel-linked receptors


    (B) G-protein-linked receptors

    (C) enzyme-linked receptors

    Although many enzyme-linked receptors have intrinsic enzyme activity, as


    shown on the left, many others rely on associated enzymes

    Different kinds of intracellular signaling proteins along a signaling pathway


    from a cell-surface receptor to the nucleus.

    In this example, a series of signaling proteins and small intracellular mediators


    relay the extracellular signal into the cell, causing a change in gene expression.

    The signal is amplified, altered (transduced), and distributed en route. Many of


    the steps can be modulated by other extracellular and intracellular signals, so
    that the final result of one signal depends on other factors affecting the cell.

    Ultimately, the signaling pathway activates (or inactivates) target proteins that
    alter cell behavior. In this example, the target is a gene regulatory protein.
    Two types of intracellular signaling proteins that act as molecular switches. In
    both cases, a signaling protein is activated by the addition of a phosphate
    group and inactivated by the removal of the phosphate. (A) The phosphate is
    added covalently to the signaling protein by a protein kinase. (B) A signaling
    protein is induced to exchange its bound GDP for GTP. To emphasize the
    similarity in the two mechanisms, ATP is shown as APPP, ADP as APP, GTP as
    GPPP, and GDP as GPP.

    Extracellular signals A and B both activate a different series of protein


    phosphorylations, each of which leads to the phosphorylation of protein Y but
    at different sites on the protein. Protein Y is activated only when both of these
    sites are phosphorylated, and therefore it becomes active only when signals A
    and B are simultaneously present. For this reason, integrator proteins are
    sometimes called coincidence detectors. Intracellular signalling complexes
    enhance the speed, the efficiency, and the specificity of the response
    A specific signalling complex can be formed using modular interaction domains
    Cyclic AMP is synthesized by the adenylyl cyclase from ATP. It is a cyclization
    reaction that removes two phosphates as pyrophosphate.

    Cyclic AMP is short-lived. It is rapidly hydrolyzed by phosphodiesterases to give


    5’-AMP as shown on the figure.

    The pyrophosphate is hydrolyzed to inorganic phosphates. This reaction is the


    thermodynamic driver for the synthesis of cAMP.

    A cultured nerve cell responding to the neurotransmiter serotonin. Serotonin


    acts through a GPCR and activates cAMP synthesis. The cells express a
    fluorescent proteins that changes its fluorescence upon binding of cAMP. Blue
    indicate low concentration of cAMP, yellow – intermediate and, red a high
    concentration of cAMP.

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