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| Modern Genetic Analysis Chapter 15. Regulation of Cell Number: Normal and Cancer Cells Controlling the Cell Proliferation and Death Machinery Figure 15-8. Examples of transmembrane receptors. (a) A receptor that passes through the cell membrane seven times. (b) Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK), which has a single transmembrane domain. The extracellular domain binds to ligand. The active site of the tyrosine kinase is in the cytoplasmic domain. (Adapted from H. Lodish, D. Baltimore, A. Berk, S. L. Zipursky, P. Matsudaira, and J. Darnell, Molecular Cell Biology, 3d ed. Copyright © 1995 by Scientific American Books.)

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