4.3

Signal Transduction

AP Biology

Signal Transduction

Phosphorylation cascades

How phosphorylation cascades work

Key principles

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MAPK pathway

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Second messengers

Why second messengers?

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Major second messengers

The cAMP pathway

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The calcium and IP₃ pathway

Calcium as a second messenger

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Signal amplification

Signal specificity

Signal termination

Vocabulary