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Title: Signal transduction pathway Post by: JOJO on Jan 24, 2012 The same signal can have different final effect on different cells. Using your knowledge of the cellular communication and signal transduction pathways, shortly explain this phenomenon.
Title: Re: Signal transduction pathway Post by: bio_man on Jan 24, 2012 My assumption would be that although various cells use the same signal transduction receptors to initiate a pathway, not all cells express the same proteins. For instance, a neural cell likely has a receptors on its surface that, when activated, initiates a cascade, but the kinase proteins found in a neuron for instance, are different than cells specialized to function in your pancreas, so the end result will ultimately be different because after all, only genes associated with the function of neurons are active in the brain while all others are blocked.
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