Today our goal was to look at the big picture when it comes to cellular communication and signal transduction. Also, there has been a change of plans: You do not have a quiz on chapter 11 tomorrow.
Instead, your homework is to find a disease, condition or poison that is related to the function of cyclic AMP.
What is cyclic AMP (cAMP)? cAMP is a secondary messenger that is produced from ATP by adenylyl cyclase. As a second messenger, cAMP initiates a series of additional reactions in the cell such as phosphorylation and activation of enzymes.
Where can you look for information:Science Daily
PubMed
What should you search for? Try looking up, "genetic disorders cyclic AMP" "toxin cyclic AMP" etc..
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