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fill in the blank question a second messenger system activates an enzym…

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a second messenger system activates an enzyme , which increases the intracellular response by a thousandfold.

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In second - messenger systems, adenylate cyclase is an enzyme that can amplify the intracellular response. It converts ATP to cyclic AMP (cAMP), and a small amount of extracellular signal can lead to a large number of cAMP molecules being produced, increasing the intracellular response by a thousandfold or more.

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adenylate cyclase