BIOL 5190/6190 Cellular & Molecular Singal Transduction
Prepared by Bob Locy
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1. Molecular Signaling Pathways
• Electrical Signaling
• Chemical Signaling
2. Chemical Signaling
• Extracellular signaling
• Intracellular signaling
3. Cellular Integration of molecular signaling pathways

1. Electrical Signaling can involve cells in direct contact, typically via gap junctions.
2. The electrical signals generated can drive intercellular communication via small molecules, including metabolites and electrolytes.
3. Usually associated with excitable membrane systems, e.g. mammalian brain and heart, but may also be part of transmembrane trafficking in other unicellular and multicellular organisms
Cell Signalling Biology - Michael J. Berridge - www.cellsignallingbiology.org - 2012

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More generally communication between cells in multicellular organisms, or sometime in aggregates of unicellular organisms involves communication using chemical signals.
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Such chemical communication typically involves chemicals produced in one cell that work at a distance, and produce response in a second cell. This is the definition of a hormone.
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Other factors which may or may not fit the definition of a hormone may also be produced locally and act locally, sometimes within the same cell.
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Larger (typically peptide/protein) molecules involved in signaling, do not readily cross the plasma membrane, and work through receptors at the cell surface. While smaller molecules can act either extracellularly, or depending on their character, they may enter the cell and act intracellularly.
Cell Signalling Biology - Michael J. Berridge - www.cellsignallingbiology.org - 2012

• Typical, molecular signaling pathways are initiated via receptors which perceive the presence of the activating signal.
• The signal passes through a series of intracellular transducers and second messengers which may or may not lead to an amplification of the signal.
• Ultimately second messenger sensors are activated, modulate of effector molecules which lead cellular responses.
• The complexity of cellular signaling results from the “cross-talk” between multiple signaling pathways, and among the specific intracellular aspects of the pathways within each cell type.
Cell Signalling Biology - Michael J. Berridge - www.cellsignallingbiology.org - 2012

1. G-protein-coupled receptors
2. Tyrosine and histidine kinase-type receptors
3. Integrin receptors
4. Toll gate receptors
5. Ligand-gated ion channels

Module 1: Figure stimuli for cyclic AMP signalling
Cell Signalling Biology - Michael J. Berridge - www.cellsignallingbiology.org - 2012

Module 1: Figure stimuli for InsP3/DAG signalling
Cell Signalling Biology - Michael J. Berridge - www.cellsignallingbiology.org - 2012

Module 1: Figure stimuli for enzyme-linked receptors
Cell Signalling Biology - Michael J. Berridge - www.cellsignallingbiology.org - 2012

Module 1: Figure tyrosine kinase-linked receptors
Cell Signalling Biology - Michael J. Berridge - www.cellsignallingbiology.org - 2012

Module 1: Figure PDGFR activation
Cell Signalling Biology - Michael J. Berridge - www.cellsignallingbiology.org - 2012

Integrin Signaling Overview

1. Nuclear receptors
2. Cytoplasmic receptors
3. Steroid hormones
4. Other lipophillic horomones, e.g. vitamins

Module 1: Figure steroid stimuli
Cell Signalling Biology - Michael J. Berridge - www.cellsignallingbiology.org - 2012