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What is the advantage of using a second messenger?
Posted November 6, 2020

Answer

A key advantage of second messengers is their ability to rapidly propagate and amplify signals received at the cell surface to intracellular target molecules within the cytosol or nucleus. Since second messenger levels are controlled with rapid kinetics, it takes microseconds to seconds for second messenger levels to increase and initiate its effects.