BSI Lecture 24-26 Apoptotic Signaling Flashcards
Give 2 examples of intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathways.
1) mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis (mitochondrial dysfunction)
2) p53/Nuclear-mediated apoptosis
_____-_________ apoptosis utilizes Fas/FasL signaling.
Receptor mediated
Mitochondrial dysfunction can be caused by deficient ___ production.
ATP
Oxidative stress/ROS (reactive oxygen species) production is an example of ______ ________.
Oxidative dysfunction
When mitochondrial dysfunction is triggered, what does the mitocondrial release?
Cytochrome C
What does cytochrome C help initiate the formation of?
Apoptosome
What makes up a apoptosome?
Cytochrome C, Procaspase 9, dATP, and Apaf-1
Procaspase-9, is it active or inactive?
Inactive
What is the purpose of the apoptosome?
It’s going to lead to the activation of procaspase-9
How do you activate procaspase-9?
Formation of the apoptosome causes procaspase-9 to autocleave itself, resulting in more autocleaving of procaspase-9
Caspases are ________ which cleave other proteins.
proteases
What is considered the central executioner of apoptosis?
Caspase-3
What does caspase-9 do once it is activated?
It cleaves procaspase-3
What are the end results of Apoptosis?
- Destruction of cytoskeleton
- Destrution of nuclear envelope
- DNA fragmentation into mono- and oligonucleosomes
- Destruction/inactivation of pro-survival regulatory proteins.
- Membrane blebbing
- Formation of apoptotic bodies
- Apoptotic bodies engulfed by macraphages or neighboring cells.
How do macrophages or neighboring cells recognize apoptotic bodies?
The phoshatidylserine is flipped to the outter membrane.
The initiator caspase refers to caspase that initiates _________ ______.
caspase cascade
The _________ caspase will go and cleave a variety of things in the cell thats going to lead to the morphological characteristic of apoptosis.
executioner
What are the 3 categories of regulators of apoptosis?
- Bcl-2 Family
- Inhibitors of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs)
- Repressors of IAPs
Anti-apoptotic and pro-apoptotic belongs to which regulatory group?
Bcl-2 family
What do anti-apoptotic proteins do?
prevent cytochrome c release
T or F? Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL are pro-apoptotic.
False, anti-apoptotic
What do pro-apoptotic proteins do?
favors cytochrome c release
T or F? Bax, tBid (truncated Bid), Bak, Bim. Bad, Bok are examples of pro-apoptotic group.
True
XIAP is an _______ of apoptosis proteins.
inhibitor (IAP)
What do IAPs do?
bind to cleaved caspases and inhibit activity