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Lecture notes of 12 pages for the course Cell Biology and developmental genetics at QMUL

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  • March 7, 2021
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  • 2020/2021
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Growth factors and cellular responses
Plan of the lectures

13. Growth factor and cellular responses

14. Growth factor receptor signalling

15. Growth factor receptor endocytic trafficking

16. Interplay between growth factor receptor trafficking and signalling

- not found in text books

- new and emerging idea that signalling of GF receptors and trafficking inside the cell are linked

17. Actin, microtubules, cell-cell junctions and cell polarisation

18. Extracellular matrix and integrin’s

19. Integrin trafficking

20 cell migration and invasion

Learning objectives:

1. What is a growth factor?
2. Modes of communication?
3. Cell responses to growth factors
4. Growth factor receptors types
5. Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK)
6. TGF beta receptor

Maintenance of tissue architecture small intestine

 If look at any tissue in the body i.e. small intestine, there are lots of different types of cells
 The diagram shows different types of cells
- Crypt
Contains stem cells, which will later differentiate to different types of cells
- Villus
- Absorptive cells
- Mucus secreting cells
- Epithelium cells
Beneath epithelia cells are stromal cells
- mesenchymal cells
 to maintain integrity of tissue, cells need to communicate to each other

, LO1. WHAT IS A GROWTH FACTOR?

Growth factors

 Extracellular protein that promotes growth, proliferation, differentiation or survival of cells
 Typically act locally, unlike hormones
 Present in low concentration in nanomolar to picomolar range
 Cause changes in target cell biology via binding to specific receptors (GFR), which often lead to changes in gene
expression over a period of hours or may lead to rapid alterations in cell cytoskeleton.

LO2. MODES OF COMMUNICATION

1. Endocrine mode
 Hormones and not growth factors
 Travel in the bloodstream
2. Paracrine mode - most common for GF in normal cell
 Used by GF
3. Neural mode
 Synaptic signalling
4. Contact-dependent mode
 Also called cell-cell contact or Juxtacrine
5. Autocrine signalling -most common for GF in cancer
 A cell that secretes the ligand that binds to the receptor on the same cell surface, leading to changes in the cell.

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