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11 - Second Messenger Signaling in Neuronal Development I Flashcards

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What experiments were done to show that epithelial cells could differentiate alone?

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In vitro models with manipulation of LKB1

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What cells were used to show that epithelial cells could differentiate alone?

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Intestinal epithelial cells

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Why were intestinal epithelial cells used to show that epithelial cells could differentiate alone?

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Intestinal epithelial cells did not endogenously have LKB1

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What were the control and experimental groups of the experiments that showed that epithelial cells could differentiate alone?

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Control: No LKB1
Experimental: Overexpression of LKB1

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In the experiments that showed that epithelial cells could differentiate alone, what was measured and how?

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The actin cytoskeleton was tracked using a fluorescent label

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Why was actin targeted for the experiments that showed that epithelial cells could differentiate alone?

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Actin is used to create the microvillae structure on the apical domain of the cell

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What did LKB1 do to intestinal epithelial cells (in the in vitro experiments)?

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Causes actin cytoskeleton to localize to the apical domain to form the microvillae structure

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What did the time course experiment of intestinal epithelial cells with overexpressed LKB1 show?

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Over time, the actin cytoskeleton relocated to the apical domain

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What is the structure of the actin cytoskeleton in intestinal epithelial cells without LKB1?

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Uniformly distributed

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How long does cytoskeletal reorganization take in intestinal epithelial cells with overexpressed LKB1?

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24 hours

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True or false: there are many processes needed for epithelial cells to polarize

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True: each of these can be investigated and tracked in experiments

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What does ZO1 do?

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Act as a marker or tight junctions

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How was ZO1 used to study epithelial polarization?

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Can use ZO1 to see how tight junctions change when LKB1 is added to the system

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What happened when LKB1 and ZO1 was added to epithelial cells in experiments?

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The LKB1 caused the ZO1 (tight junctions) to localize

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How can cell surface receptors be tracked in cell polarization studies?

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By using specific markers for a certain domain (a set of markers for apical domain, and another set of markers for basolateral domain)

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When happened when cell surface markers were used in conjunction with LKB1 in epithelial cell studies?

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The markers localized to their respective regions

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What is downstream of LKB1?

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A large family of kinases, and the PAR proteins

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What does LKB1 do in neuronal development?

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Acts as a signal for axon initiation

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What is the model system to study LKB1 on axonal development?

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In vitro hippocampal neurons (isolated)

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What is the ultimate goal of a researcher studying neuronal development?

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Understand how development happens in vivo

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True or false: in vivo studies are easier than in vitro studies

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False: in vivo studies are significantly more expensive and difficult

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Why do researchers use in vitro models, when their ultimate goal is to understand development in vivo?

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Because they can do robust experimentation in a simpler system

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What is the simplest experiment that can be done?

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“Go and take a look”

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What does a “go and take a look” study refer to?

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Observing where certain proteins are localized within the cell

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What was shown in observational studies of neuronal development?

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LKB1 localized to the axons of these cells

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How can proteins be labeled to be useful in experiments?

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By using specific antibodies to tag a specific protein

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What happens when LKB1 is overexpressed in neurons?

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Multiple axons form

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In control conditions, how many axons does each neuron have?

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One

29
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What happens when LKB1 is down-regulated in neurons?

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Many cells form no axons

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How was LKB1 down-regulated in experiments studying axonal development?

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By using siRNA

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What happens to the neurites when LKB1 was down-regulated?

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They continued to grow, but did not polarize into an axon

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True or false: to study LKB1 in vivo, LKB1 needed to be knocked out in the entire organism

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False: it needed to be localized to the brain

33
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How come LKB1 couldn’t be knocked out in the entire organism?

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This would lead to embryonic death (before neuronal development start)

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How did researchers get around the issue of knocking out LKB1 in the entire organism?

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By only knocking out LKB1 in the neurons of the brain, and not the rest of the organism

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What happened when LKB1 was knocked out in vivo?

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There were almost no axons present in the brain slices of the cortex

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True or false: LKB1 is a crucial mediator in both epithelial and neuronal cells

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True: experiments in both of these cells show how important LKB1 is for cell polarization

37
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What is upstream of PAR-1?

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LKB1

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What is SAD-A and SAD-B?

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Mammalian homologs of PAR-1

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What happened in neurons when PAR-1 was knocked out?

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Continuous growth of neurites, without the differentiation of becoming an axon

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Considering that A is important for axonal development, and B is an upstream activator of A, what questions should be considered regarding this relationship?

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  1. Over-expression of which protein might rescue the deletion of the other?
  2. Does it matter at what time during neuronal development the protein is over-expressed or deleted to affect axon development?
  3. How will the deletion of A or B affect dendrite development?
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How does LKB1 become activated?

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It is phosphorylated by PKA

42
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How does PKA become activated?

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By high levels of cAMP expression

43
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How can cAMP levels be elevated?

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By activating AC, or inhibiting PDE

44
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What gets phosphorylated on LKB1 to activate it?

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Ser-431

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What does LKB1 phosphorylate?

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PAR-1

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How was it determined that Ser-431 could be a phosphorylation site for PKA?

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Based on observation of surrounding amino acid sequence

47
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True or false: cAMP is a protein

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False: it is a small molecule

48
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What are the targets of cAMP?

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  1. PKA
  2. Cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels
  3. EPACs
49
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What does EPAC stand for?

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Exchange protein activated by cAMP

50
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What technique was used to study PKA effects on LKB1?

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Western blot

51
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What did the western blot do in the experiments that studied PKA effects on LKB1?

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Measured the levels of phosphorylated LKB1 (antibody tags)

52
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In the studies of PKA and LKB1, what were the western blots on the control cells and why?

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Low levels of phosphorylated LKB1, because the system was not stimulated

53
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In the studies of PKA and LKB1, what were the western blots on the cells with just forskolin and why?

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High levels of phosphorylated LKB1, because PKA was stimulated by the increase in cAMP

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In the studies of PKA and LKB1, what were the western blots of the cells with an alanine substitute and why?

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Low levels of phosphorylated LKB1, because the phosphorylatable serine (431) could not be phosphorylated by PKA when it was replaced with alanine

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What experiments can be done to show that Ser-431 is necessary for activation?

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Mutate it to an alanine, and observe the effects

56
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What was the phenotype of the axon when it expressed LKB1 with a mutated Ser -> Ala change?

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Abnormal phenotype of many growing neurites with no axon

57
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What experiments can be done to show the role of cAMP in axonal formation?

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Use a patterned substrate to selectively expose cAMP to different parts of the neuron

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How was cAMP selectively presented to the neuron?

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By using a patterned substrate (strips of cAMP)

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True or false: to study the effect of cAMP on neuronal development, pure cAMP was added to different regions of the neuron

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False: the cAMP needed to be modified to be membrane soluble

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Why was membrane soluble cAMP needed to study its role on axon formation?

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Because cAMP could be selectively presented on the petri dish outside of the cell, and so it had to move inside the cell through the cell membrane

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How does localized cAMP affect the neuron phenotype?

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It induces axon formation in the places where cAMP is localized

62
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Where is LKB1 localized during neuronal development?

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In the axon (one single neurite)

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True or false: LKB1 is indicative of axonal fate

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True: the neurite that is localized with LKB1 is marked to become the axon

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Besides LKB1, what protein localizes in the axon during neural development?

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Kinesin-1 (after jumping around the cell)

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