Episode 118: Cell Signalling
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Gene Protein Coupled Receptors
The two main types of receptors that I've identified the gene protein coupled receptors and the enzyme linked receptors. So they can basically interact on both sides they can interact outside and inside and that's necessary because the whole point of them is to convert the signal from a signal outside the cell to a single inside the cell. The receptor not only has to respond to the signal but has to be the first step in the chain like the first abdominal if you like of that single transaction pathway so we'll talk a little bit later about how that happens.
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