Cell Signaling Crossword!

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Across
  1. 5. The last step or 'goal' of a signal transduction pathway
  2. 6. When a cell signals itself
  3. 9. A term for the chemical signal or hormone that binds a receptor
  4. 10. When one signal activates millions of enzymes
  5. 12. The process of converting a message into a changed form
  6. 13. This enzyme converts ATP into cyclic AMP adenylyl _______
  7. 14. This sensing is how bacteria communicate how numerous they are (remember Bonnie Bassler!)
Down
  1. 1. A protein that the ligand or signal attaches to
  2. 2. This polysaccharide, stored in muscles and liver, can be broken into individual glucose monomers via adrenaline, epinephrine or glucagon signals
  3. 3. These factors are proteins that move into the nucleus and turn on or turn off genes
  4. 4. A small, nonpolar ligand will diffuse into the cell and bind with this kind of receptor
  5. 7. Class of enzymes that activate proteins during transduction by adding a phosphate to them
  6. 8. Type of signaling that involves hormones moving through the bloodstream
  7. 11. cAMP is this kind of messenger