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9 - Control of Cell Death Flashcards

1
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Types of cell death

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  • Programmed cell death
  • Necrosis
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Programmed cell death

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  • A physiological process where cells are eliminated during development and other normal biological processes
  • E.g. Apoptosis, Autophagy
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Apoptosis

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Type 1 cell death

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Autuphagy

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Type 2 cell death

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Necrosis

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Pathological process after exposure to serious physical or chemical insult

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Anoikis

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Delayed cell death associated with build up of autophagy vesicles

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Cornification

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Epithelial cell specific process to produce outer (dead) layer of the skin

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Pyroptosis, pyronecrosis

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Infection induced death
of macrophages

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Necroptosis

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‘regulated’ necrosis

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Morphological features of apoptosis

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  • No loss of membrane integrity
  • Aggregation of chromatin at the nuclear membrane
  • Shrinking of the cytoplasm and condensation of nucleus
  • Fragmentation of cell into apoptotic bodies
  • Leaky mitochondria due to pore formation
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Biological features of apoptosis

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  • Strictly regulated process
  • Energy (ATP) dependent
  • Ladder pattern of DNA fragmentation (non random)
  • Prelytic DNA fragmentation
  • Alteration in membrane asymmetry
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Physiological significance of apoptosis

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  • Evoked by physiological stimuli (growth factors etc)
  • Affects individual cells
  • Phagocytosis by macrophages or adjacent cells
  • No inflammatory response
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Morphological features of necrosis

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  • Loss of membrane integrity
  • Swelling of cytoplasm and mitochondria
  • Total cell lysis
  • No vesicle formation
  • Disintegration (swelling) of organelles
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Biological features of necrosis

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  • Loss of regulation of ion homeostasis
  • No energy requirement
  • Smear pattern of DNA (random digestion)
  • Postlytic DNA fragmentation
  • Possibility for recovery after reversible injury (unlike apoptosis)
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Physiological significance of necrosis

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  • Evoked by non-physiological disturbance
  • Affects groups of cells
  • Phagocytosis by macrophages
  • Significant inflammatory response
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What mediates the events associated with apoptosis

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Caspases

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Pathways to apoptosis

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  • Can be extrinsic or intrinsic
  • Apoptosis induction –> Initiator caspase activation –> Effector caspase activation –> Death substrate cleavage –> Apoptosis
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Regulation of apoptosis

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  • Positive modulators (pro-apoptosis)
  • Negative modulators (anti-apoptosis)
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BCL-2 Family

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  • Inhibitors of apoptosis (anti-apoptosis): Bcl-2, Bcl-xL
  • BH3 only (pro-apoptosis): Bid, Bim Bad
  • Effectors (pro-apoptosis): Bax, Bak, Bok
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Anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family structure

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Four Bcl-2 homology domains (BH) as well as a putative trans
-membrane domain (TM) responsible for their preferred localization at inner membranes.

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Effector Bcl-2 family structure

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Bax subfamily resemble Bcl-2
closely in structure possessing three out of four (multiple) BH domains

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BH3 only Bcl-2 family structure

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Only share one BH3 domain with all other Bcl-2 family members.

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Balance between anti-apoptotic and pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members

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Determines if effector members are free to initiate apoptosis

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Positive modulators of apoptosis (inducers)

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  • Cytochrome c
  • Apoptosis protease activating factor 1 (APAF1)
  • Caspases
  • Apoptosis inducing factor (AIF)
  • Endonuclease G (Endo G)
  • Granzyme A (GrA)
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Cytochrome-c

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Activates APAF1

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APAF1

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Critical component of apoptosome, cleaves caspase 9

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AIF

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Induces chromatin condensation and DNA degradation

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EndoG

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Facilitates chromatin condensation with AIF

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GrA

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Serine protease released by cytotoxic T cells

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E2F

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  • Transcriptionally activates many pro-apoptotic genes
  • E.g. Bax, Bad, APAF1
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Negative modulators of apoptosis (inhibitors)

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  • Bcl-2 family genes
  • Inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) that block caspase activation
  • Pro-thymosin-α (ProTα) that blocks apoptosome formation
  • E1B: acts like Bcl2 to bind Bcl2 family effectors
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NF-kB

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  • Activation leads to enhanced
    survival
  • Inhibition of NF-kB promotes
    apoptosis
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Reasons for studying apoptosis

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Utilised in studies of:
- Immunology
- Embryology
- Aging
- AIDS
- Neurology
- Cancer

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Methods for studying apoptosis

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  • Protease activity (caspase 3)
  • Membrane alterations
  • DNA fragmentation assay
  • DNA strand breaks
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Membrane alterations

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  • Phosphatidylserine translocation to outside of cell when cell undergoes apoptosis
  • Annexin V (a phospholipid-binding protein with a high affinity for phosphatidylserine)
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DNA fragmentation assay

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  • Apoptotic DNA ladder
  • Gel electrophoresis
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DNA strand breaks

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TUNEL assay (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferasemediated dUTP nick end labelling)

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Internal pathways of how cancer cells avoid apoptosis

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  • p53 loss of function
  • Rb inactivating mutations
  • Myc gene amplification
  • Bcl2 activation
  • Bax inactivating mutations
  • Caspase inactivating mutations
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External pathways of how cancer cells avoid apoptosis

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  • Loss of pro-apoptotic signaling molecules
  • Viral infection can prevent apoptosis (e.g. HPV E6 protein blocking p53 function)
  • Interaction with other cells (hide from CTLs)
  • Interaction with chemicals
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Apoptosis and cancer therapy

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  • Inducing apoptosis of cancer cells is an ideal therapeutic approach as it prevents inflammation and damage due to necrotic cell death and harnesses the cells own apoptotic machinery
  • But cancerous cells are resistant to apoptosis
  • Need to know affected pathways to produce targeted
    therapies
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