BIOL 3324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Posterior Pituitary, Peptide Hormone, Pituitary Gland
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Osmol= # solute moles/ solution: ex: 1 mol glucose in a solution= 1 osmol of glucose. Catalytic receptors= transmembrane protein with extracellular binding area, and intracellular receptor: forms dimers, works direction via catalytic activity. Only affects molecules that already exist: tyrosine kinase associated receptor vs. receptor tyrosine. Tk associated receptor has an area that will interact with tyrosine kinase. Does not inherently have tyrosine kinase activity. Tk receptor has tyrosine kinase that is activated. Signal transduction= molecules activated in like a chain reaction: the molecules are already present, are activated in succession. Nuclear receptor: ligand must be lipid soluble as it binds to a receptor in the cell. Either in the nucleus or the cytoplasm. If it is in the cytoplasm it moves to the nucleus after binding: no pathway, just direct activation, alters gene activity. The receptor is in the cytoplasm or nucleus. Effector = a cell that acts in response to a stimulus.