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Science Bowl Question

📅 NSB 2011🎓 HS🔄 Round 15#️⃣ Q10🌟 Bonus📝 Multiple Choice

Some disease-causing microbes attack the body by turning on or off specific signal transduction pathways. In the disease cholera, for example, a toxin from the bacterium Vibrio cholera enters intestinal cells and chemically modifies G proteins. Once modified, the G proteins can no longer cleave GTP into GDP. Which of the following would you expect to see within the intestinal cells of a person with cholera?

W) The G proteins remain activated and continually activate adenylyl cylase
X) The G proteins cannot become activated and cannot activate adenylyl cylase
Y) The G protein subunits do not separate from each other
Z) The receptor in the membrane is continually activated
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