Showing posts with label Gerb2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gerb2. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2013

ADAPTER GENES

Nothing is simple but yet as determinant as an Adapter gene.
The cell continues to amaze scientists.
When a stimulant attaches to a receptor, the 2, stimulant and receptor, enter the cell in some cases, detaching from the membrane and enter the cell.  Most of the time there is a triggering of main pathways such as the RAS, but sometimes, at the site of attachment, the raw edges of the membrane are not healing and wage their own war...here it is the focal Adhesion kinases that are going to war.  Now, that war is not necessarily random.  Depending on the nature of the stimulant and receptor involved, the FAK can turn to a Gerb2, Lyn or Flyn with a totally new orientation in the metabolism of the cell.  Sometimes the adapter is simply a b-cell linker or it is a T-cell linker and the cell will follow that path or attract these different cells.  It may use RUS1 to block the excited RAS that we spoke about or orient the cell to Rho in order to exacerbate metastasis.  
These linkers are a way to control differentiation, but when erratic, they could compromise the host!  Certain genes are destined to help many proteins such as a portion of an Antibody, imagine them wrongly linked to some other gene leading to unwarranted  multiplication! Things are set for hematologic malignancies!

Preliminary impression:
- Attachment to Lyn- B cell differentiation (some) and if Gerb2 involved, T cell differentiation definitely if the stimulant is TGF alpha!
Flyn- well may be muscle dystrophy, of some form.
Attachment to TBS - mental retardation
Lck-depression such as seen with chronic autoimmune disease (locus Coereleus)

Watch your Adaptor genes carefully!  Otherwise things are going in a direction you may not wish!