Early in his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt sparked a scandal when he invited the African-American educator Booker T. Washington to dine with him and his family; he was the first president ever to entertain a black man in the White House. In 1886, Roosevelt ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City. Two years later, President Benjamin Harrison rewarded Rooseveltâs service to the Republican Party with a job on the U.S. Civil Service Commission; he was reappointed by Harrisonâs successor, Grover Cleveland.
1 Signaling involves a receptor, the transduction of information from the cell surface to inside the cell, and subcellular systems that make a response. 2  Receptors are proteins with specific binding sites for signaling molecules called ligands. All cells are equipped with elaborate systems for receiving signals from their environment. 2  The mechanisms involved in cell signaling are particularly crucial for understanding multi-cellular organisms, and are an important in many diseases.
Signal transduction involves the binding of extracellular signaling molecules also called ligands to receptors that trigger events inside the cell. The combination of signaling molecule with a receptor causes a change in the conformation of the receptor, known as receptor activation.econd messengers are the substances that enter the cytoplasm and act within the cell to trigger a response. In essence, second messengers serve as chemical relays from the plasma membrane to the cytoplasm, thus carrying out intracellular signal transduction.