Archeological evidence suggests that Neanderthals may have

Last updated: 3/12/2023

Archeological evidence suggests that Neanderthals may have been aware of the medicinal properties of plants over 60 000 years ago Imagine you are a modern day ethnobotanist and have identified a compound from fossilized tree pollen that binds to the alpha subunit of the most common G proteins To test how the compound affects the activity of Ga you treat liver cells with the compound alongside epinephrine You observe that the cells fail to produce glucose Which of the following could be how the compound acts It could inhibit the GTPase activity of Ga It could decrease the affinity of Ga for GDP It could cause Ga to bind more tightly to adenylate cyclase None of the above