Phosphoinositide cascade

Phosphoinositide cascade

A series of events that is initiated extracellularly and leads via activation of phospholipase C to the liberation from membrane phospholipids of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and diacylglycerol, which act intracellularly to increase cytosolic calcium and to activate protein kinase C respectively.

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