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cell signaling
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| signals diffuse around to affect the cells that make them | Autocrine |
| signals diffuse to and affect nearby cell | Paracrine |
| signal produced by one cell and travel through the circulatory system to effect their target cell, the signal is called a hormone | Endocrine |
| any molecule that binds to a receptor site of another (usually larger) molecule | Ligand |
| a protein on the plasma membrane or in the cytoplasm which a specific ligand binds | Receptor |
| second component of a signal transduction pathway | Responder |
| receptor that after binding of a ligand, the receptor changes conformation to become activated and transfer phosphates groups to another protein | Protein kinase receptor |
| intracellular membrane protein involved in signal transduction; characterized by binding GDP or GTP | G protein |