They often involve the generation of what are called 'second messenger' molecules which carry the signal further into the cell.

过程中通常会生成一种叫做,第二信使的分子,将信号更深入地传递至细胞内部

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That signal is carried here, for example, by the concentration of second messengers - the concentration of something else.

这里这个信号由,第二信使的浓度,即另一种物质的浓度来传递

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Now, one of the advantages of having second messengers is this is one way that you can integrate between different receptor systems that are acting inside a cell.

使用第二信使分子的好处在于,它能够将,作用于细胞内部不同的,受体系统结合起来

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This is another example of a second messenger, the inositol lipid pathway.

这是另一个第二信使的例子,磷酸肌醇信号通路

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Sometimes second messengers collect signals from a variety of different receptor systems, translate them into one kind of internal change, and the cell then just has to know about that one thing changing.

第二信使分子能够收集,来自不同受体系统的信号,将它们转化为同一种细胞内在的变化,这样细胞就只需对一种变化作出反应

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It's called cDNA or complimentary DNA to indicate that it's a copy, a complimentary copy of the messenger RNA.

它叫cDNA或者互补DNA,意味着它是一个拷贝,一个信使RNA反转录得出的DNA拷贝

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Of course, if you degrade the messenger RNA at a rapid rate then you'll stop expression of the cells.

如果降解信使RNA的速度很快的话,就会停止细胞的表达

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The end result of transcription is not double stranded DNA, it's single stranded RNA where the RNA that's produced is called messenger RNA.

最终的转录产物并非双链的DNA,而是单链的RNA,称为信使RNA

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ATP is famous for its ability to store energy but it's also a messenger molecule.

TP分子的有名之处在于它能够储能,但它也是一类信使分子

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When a certain enzyme is activated inside cells, ATP gets converted into a molecule called cyclic AMP, and cyclic AMP is an example of one of these molecules called second messengers.

细胞内的某种酶被激活后,ATP就能转化为一种叫cAMP的分子,cAMP是一种第二信使分子的范例

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The end result is you can design now very specific double stranded RNA sequences, that when delivered into cells again will activate this process of natural degradation of an existing messenger RNA.

最终的结果是,你现在能够设计针对性很强的,双链RNA序列,当这段序列被转入细胞后会激活,对已有信使RNA进行降解的过程

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Reverse transcriptase is a naturally occurring protein, it has a biological function in HIV, but we can use it for a technical logical function here by going backwards on the biological path from messenger RNA to DNA.

反转录酶是在自然环境中存在的蛋白质,它在HIV中发挥着生物功能,但在这里它可以发挥一个技术功能,让它用信使RNA反转录出DNA

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