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True or false: protein degradation refers to only ending a process

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False: protein degradation can be used as actuators of cell signaling

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What is (generally) the most common way to transmit signals in the cell?

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Post-translational modifications

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What is the most drastic post-translational modification?

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Proteolysis

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What is proteolysis?

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The process of breaking peptide bonds

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What are the products of protein degradation (generally)?

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Either smaller peptides, or single amino acids

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True or false: proteolysis is the only process of breaking peptide bonds

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False: protein cleavage can also break peptide bonds

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What is protein cleavage?

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Breaking peptide bonds at specific sites to create functional domains

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True or false: protein cleavage is highly regulated

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True: protein cleavage is highly regulated and occurs at very specific locations

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What is the typical structure of a cleavage protein?

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Long extracellular domain, small transmembrane domain, little or none intracellular domain

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What can proteolysis or protein cleavage be used for?

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  1. Degrade proteins to eliminate their activity at specific times and locations
  2. Generate active enzymes or signaling molecules from longer, inactive precursors
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How does proteolysis differ from other post-translational modifications?

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It is mostly irreversible

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How are other post-translational modifications (besides protein degradation) reversible?

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  1. Ion channels can open / close
  2. Phosphorylation can be added or removed
  3. Acetylation of histones can be added or removed
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How could protein degradation be “reversed”?

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Through translation of the protein

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How come protein degradation is called “irreversible”, if it can be reversed by translation?

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Translation is a very slow process, so it takes significant time to reverse protein degradation

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What are some cell activities that require regulated proteolysis?

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Control of the cell cycle, apoptosis, development, growth, survival, etc.

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For what types of signaling would protein degradation be the most useful?

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When the cell wants to make a committed decision to change its state (instead of reverting back to its starting state)

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What are examples of irreversible commitment steps?

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Cell cycle, apoptosis, and development/morphogenesis

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How is the cell cycle an irreversible commitment step?

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It needs to proceed in an orderly fashion from one step to another

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How is apoptosis an irreversible commitment step?

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It must proceed to completion once initiated

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How is development/morphogenesis an irreversible commitment step?

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Cells must make irreversible decisions to acquire a specific cell fate

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True or false: proteolysis can only be used for irreversible commitment steps

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False: it can also be used for reversible commitment steps

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How can proteolysis be used for a reversible commitment step?

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It can activate signaling or other cellular events, which can be reversible

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What family of proteins mediate degradation or cleavage?

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Proteases

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What do proteases do?

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Hydrolyze the peptide bonds of proteins

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What are proteases?
Proteins that mediate degradation or cleavage of other proteins
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True or false: proteases are evolutionarily conserved
True: they are important for cell function, and thus are highly conserved
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What are the functions of proteases?
1. Achieve housekeeping functions 2. Eliminate proteins no longer needed 3. Cleave proteins to create other functional proteins
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What is meant by "achieving housekeeping functions" (for proteases)?
Need to break down food for energy and biosynthesis
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Why would proteins no longer be needed (for proteases)?
They are damaged or no longer needed in that specific location
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How are many signaling proteins generated at the cell surface?
As inactive precursors
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How can inactive precursors at the cell surface become active?
Through cleavage (control their activation)
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How are proteases classified?
Based on their reaction mechanism
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What are the different classifications of proteases?
Metalloproteases, and proteases categorized based on a central amino acid in their active site
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What are metalloproteases?
Proteases that contain a metal ion (zinc, cobalt) in their active site
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What are some examples of proteases categorized based on a central amino acid in their active site?
Serine proteases, cysteine proteases, and aspartyl proteases
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Besides their reaction mechanism, how can proteases be further classified?
By their substrate specificity
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How are most proteases synthesized?
As an inactive precursor (zymogen)
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What is a zymogen?
An inactive precursor of the protease
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Why are proteases synthesized as zymogens?
The cell does not want active proteases running around the cell at all times
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How are zymogens activated?
Through protein cleavage
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What signals can activate zymogens?
Extracellular signals
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True or false: a protease can activate its own zymogen
True: this creates a positive feedback loop for a rapid response
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Which steps of protease activation are irreversible?
1. Activation of enzymes from inactive zymogens | 2. Proteolytic degradation of proteins
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True or false: protein degradation offers a unique temporal feature of cell signaling
True: based on its irreversible nature, it offers unique temporal features
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What are the unique temporal features of protein degradation in cell signaling?
Degradation occurs rapidly, but translation occurs slowly
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How can protein degradation or cleavage be used to sculpt signaling (5 ways)?
1. Secretion of an extracellular ligand upon cleavage of a membrane precursor 2. Activation of cell-surface receptor upon cleavage 3. Removal of cell-surface receptors to down-regulate their signaling 4. Degradation of damaged/"old"/inactive proteins (signaling attenuation) 5. Degradation of proteins at specific cellular locations to localize signaling
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What is an example of secretion of an extracellular ligand upon cleavage of a membrane precursor?
Neurotrophins such as BDNF
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How is BDNF (and other neurotrophins) secreted into the extracellular space?
As immature proteins (pro-BDNF)
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How is pro-BDNF activated?
By specific cleavage
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What is the importance of the signal peptide in pro-BDNF?
It trafficks pro-BDNF to be secreted by the cell
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True or false: only mature BDNF can generate signaling
False: pro-BDNF can also generate signaling
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What is an example of activation of cell-surface receptors upon cleavage?
Notch-Delta signaling
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When is Notch cleaved?
When it binds to its ligand delta
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What type of protein is delta?
A cell surface ligand
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What happens when Notch is cleaved?
The intracellular domain goes to the nucleus to regulate gene expression
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What type of protein is Notch?
A cell surface receptor
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What is signaling attenuation?
Reducing the strength of the signal
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How can signaling attenuation be achieved?
By down regulating cell surface receptors through proteolysis
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Why would a cell use protein degradation for localization?
They may not have other mechanisms, such as scaffold proteins, to accomplish this
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How can protein degradation be used for localization?
They can degrade proteins in areas where they shouldn't be acting, thus restricting their activity to specific locations in the cell
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What are the (3) roles of metalloproteases?
1. Degrade ECM proteins to regulate migration 2. Generate active signaling molecules (ligands) from large precursors 3. Cleave receptors for their activation or down regulation
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What does MMP stand for?
Matrix metalloprotease
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What does ADAM stand for?
A disintegrin and metalloprotease
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True or false: MMPs are found at the cell surface
False: they are found in the intracellular space
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How come MMPs are not found at the cell surface?
They have no transmembrane and intracellular domain
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True or false: ADAMs are found at the cell surface?
True: they are anchored to the cell membrane
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How come ADAMs are found at the cell surface?
They have a transmembrane and intracellular domain
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For most metalloproteases, which domain is the largest?
The extracellular domain
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How are MMPs and ADAMs synthesized?
As inactive precursors (zymogens)
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How are MMPs and ADAMs activated?
Through cleavage events
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True or false: MMPs are only active during development
False: they are active all throughout life for cell migration
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Besides development, what is an example of a process that require MMPs?
Wound healing
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Which metalloproteases are anchored at the cell surface?
ADAMs
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Which metalloproteases are secreted by the cell?
MMPs
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What do ADAMs do?
Cleave membrane-associated proteins at the cell surface (ectodomain shedding)
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What is ectodomain shedding?
The cleavage of membrane-associated proteins at the cell surface
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How can ADAMs promote signaling?
By releasing an active ligand
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How can ADAMs regulate signaling?
By cleaving the extracellular ligand-binding domain of a receptor
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What is another name for ADAM-17?
TACE
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What is another name for TACE?
ADAM-17
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What is one substrate of TACE?
EGF
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What does TACE stand for?
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha-converting enzyme
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True or false: the only substrate of TACE is EGF
False: TACE has a wide range of substrates
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What happened when TACE was deleted in cells?
It had similar phenotypes to EGFR mutations
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How does TACE interact with EGFR?
TACE cleaves pro-EGF to release it and allow it to bind to EGFR
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In what mechanisms is TACE important for?
Juxtacrine signaling, and establishment of a gradient
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Why is the TACE mechanism important for juxtacrine signaling?
It generates localized signaling, so only the cells in the vicinity respond to it
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What is juxtacrine signaling?
Signaling to the same or neighboring cells
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How can the TACE mechanism lead to a gradient of cues?
Cues can diffuse away from the cell to create a gradient
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How is EGF synthesized?
As an inactive cell surface protein
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What happens if a protease is absent?
The downstream signaling of that extracellular cue is also absent
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What can be done to rescue the deletion of a protease?
Need to activate the pathway genetically or pharmacologically
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How do cells influence axon pathfinding?
They can present cell surface ligands to help guide the axon
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What axon guidance cues are found on the cell surface?
Ephrins
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What receptors bind to ephrins?
Eph receptors
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What type of signaling do ephrins mediate?
Repulsive (sometimes attractive) signaling
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What is meant by "ephrin bi-directional signaling"?
Ephrins can also act as receptors, and transmit signals when binding to an Eph ligand
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What type of proteins are Eph receptors?
RTKs
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What are topographic maps?
Precise innervations of axons from specific neurons in one tissue to another
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What is the RetinoTectal projection?
The patterning of axons from the retina (eye) to the tectum
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What is the tectum?
The part of the brain (in chickens, frogs, and fish) responsible for auditory and visual response)
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What brain structure in humans is analogous to the tectum?
The visual cortex
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If an axon is anterior in the retina, where will it be found in the tectum?
More posterior
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If an axon is posterior in the retina, where will it be found in the tectum?
More anterior
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If an axon is posterior in the tectum, where did it originate in the retina?
More anterior
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If an axon is anterior in the tectum, where did it originate in the retina?
More posterior
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What is the gradient of Eph receptors in the retina?
Lower anterior to higher posterior
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What is the gradient of ephrins in the tectum?
Lower anterior to higher posterior
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How come axons that start more anterior in the retina end up more posterior in the tectum?
They have less Eph receptors, so they are less affected by ephrin signaling
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How come axons that start more posterior in the retina end up more anterior in the tectum?
They have more Eph receptors, so they are more affected by ephrin signaling
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Which region of the RetinoTectal projection has a gradient of Eph receptors?
The retina
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Which region of the RetinoTectal projection has a gradient of ephrin?
The tectum
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What does "anterior" refer to?
Front
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What does "posterior" refer to?
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