Tritiated (3H) Thymidine uptake used to assess Cell Division based on radioactivity measurement by scintillation counting.

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The force accompanying the movement of Delta into the signaling cell stretches the Notch protein on the responding cell and allowing access by ADAM 10, which cleaves the Notch extracellular domain

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Second cleavage of Notch occurs within membrane-spanning region & catalyzed by γ-secretase

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γ-secretase complex contains 

Presenilin 1 (actual protease), aph-1, pen-2, & nicastrin

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Cleavage by the γ-secretase complex releases the Notch cytosolic segment, which translocates to the nucleus, interacts with a single DNA-binding transcription factor, CSL.

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Growth factors and EGFs are synthesized as TM proteins, regulated cleavage of the precursor by members of the ADAM protease releases the active molecule into the extracellular space.

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Cell-adhesion molecules (CAMs) mediate direct cell-cell adhesions.