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What is vesicular transport?

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a mechanism that uses membrane-bound structures, called transport vesicles, to ferry proteins from the donor compartment to the target membrane

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How is vesicular transport selective (2)?

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Transport vesicles must dock with correct target on membrane

Transport vesicle must package appropriate proteins for delivery

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What is the protein that coats vesicles and directs them from the ER to the golgi?

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COP II

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What is the protein that coats vesicles, and directs the from the golgi back to the ER?

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COP I

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What is clatharin used for?

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Coating incoming vesicles from the plasma membrane

Helps form secretory vesicles and directs to endosomes

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What are the role of SNARE proteins?

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allow the vesicle to recognize its target domain.

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What are v-SNAREs?

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SNARE proteins on vesicles

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what are t-SNAREs?

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SNARE proteins on target membranes

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Why would you want to have equal flow of vesicles from the ER to the Golgi (3)?

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  1. Maintain membrane balance
  2. Recycle SNAREs
  3. Send back misdelivered proteins
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How do the neurotoxins of tetanus and botulism exert their effects?

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enter nerve terminals and proteolyse SNARE proteins

(This prevents vesicles containing neurotransmitters from docking with the pre-synaptic membrane of the nerve cell.

Tetanus toxins enter inhibitory neurons thereby releasing the braking effect on motoneurons)

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Is the mitochondria acidophilic or basophilic?

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Acidophilic

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What are the only two organelles that have two membranes?

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Nucleus and mitochondria

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What does the term pleomorphic mean? Which organelle does it describe?

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ovoid or elongated threadlike structures: are motile and change their shape

Mitochondria

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How big are mitochondria?

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0.5-1 um in length

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What type of cells have numerous mitochondria?

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Cells that have high metabolic activity

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What are the striations of the plasmalemma? Where can these be seen?

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Region

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What is the characteristic feature that can by used to compare two mitochondria when trying to determine which one is more involved in energy metabolism?

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Number of crista

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What type of cell does not require mitochondria?

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RBCs

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What is the space that the cristie project?

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Matrix

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Which membrane is more selective the inner or outer mitochondiral membrane?

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Inner

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What is the length of the mitchondira?

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10 um

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How many mitochondria do lympocytes have (relatively)?

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Few

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How many mitochondria do hepatocytes have?

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1000 (22% of total cell volume)

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How many mitochondria do cardiac muscle cells have?

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40% of cells volume

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True or false: the number of mitochondira in muscle cells are relatively set and do not change unless as a part of a disease process
False--change with exercise vs sedentary lifestyle
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True or false: mitochondira are easy to pick out via light microscopy due to their characteristic shape
False--very hard to see them at all with light microscopy unless you used tagged succinate dehydrogenase
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What are the three components of mitochondira?
Proteins (mainly) Lipids RNA and mtDNA
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Where are most of the mt proteins synthesized? What synthesizes them?
cytoplasm by free polyribosomes
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About how long do mt last?
short time--some only 10 days
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How do mts reproduce?
fission or fusion with one another.
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What are the two outer mt membrane transporters?
TOM complex | SAM complex
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What are the three inner mt membrane transporters?
TIM 23 TIM 22 OXA complex
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What causes the decreased permeability of the inner mt membrane?
due to the presence of a high conc. of a phospholipid called cardiolipin
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Why are mitochondria located next to the tuble in kidneys?
Support energy dependent ion gradient
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Mitochondria in palisades confer what when stained?
Acidophilic striations
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mt with tubular criste are involved in what process? What if they are shelf-like?
Cholesterol/steroid synthesis if tubular ATP generation if shelf like
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If you see a mitochondria with tubular cristae, what else are you likely to see in the cell nearby?
Deposits of lipids
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Would you expect to find mitochondria with tubular or shelf-like cristae in hepatocytes?
Shelf-like
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Would you expect to find mt with tubular or shelf-like cristae in Cardiac/skeltal muscle?
Shelf-like
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Would you expect to find mt with tubular or shelf-like christae in steroid secreting cells?
Tubular
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What is released from mitochondria to initiate apoptosis?
Cytochrome C
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What is MERRF? HOw is it recognized?
At the electron microscopic level, affected mitochondria harbor “parking lot” inclusions. Mitochondria are also observed to assume peculiar shapes and cristal disruption.
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What is the ping pong process of hormone synthesis?
Cholesterol go to mt to sER, back to mt, secreted
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What are parking lot inclusions in mt that are seen at the EM level diagnostic of?
MERRF
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Odd shape mt are diagnostic of what?
Substance abuse (like EtOH)
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What are the five functions of peroxisomes?
``` Regulate H2O2 Kill pathogens Oxidize EtOH Plasmalogen Beta FA oxidation ```
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Zwellweger syndrome is the result of what?
impaired import of enzymes into the peroxisomes --no ether linkages in plamsa membrane lipids
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True or false: cytoskeleton elements are considered to be organelles?
True
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What are the three filaments?
Actin (thin) Intermediate filaments Myosin (thick)
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What are microtubules made up of?
Tublin subunits
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What are the structural elements that are hallow in cytoplasm?
Microtubules
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What is Dynein?
ATPase attached to microtubules
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What is the function of kinesin?
move vesicles on microtubule tracts frmo negative to positive end
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Why is it important that microtubules are charged?
direct movement of vesicles
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In what disease do lipids accumulate in the cerebellum?
Zellweger syndrome
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How do peroxisomes get their enzymes?
From free polyribosome protein synthesis in the cytoplasm
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What does the enzyme catalase do?
Forms water and oxygen from H2O2
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True or false: Peroxisomal β-oxidation may equal that of mitochondria in some cell types.
True
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How do peroxisomes maintain their phospholipid bilayer?
Phospholipid exchange proteins from sER maintain it
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What is the defect that causes Zellweger syndrome?
Peroxisomal enzymes are not transported into the peroxisome. This is due to a defective import protein on the unit membrane of the peroxisome.
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What are the four components of the cytoskeleton?
Microtubules Actin (microfilaments) Myosin (thick filaments) Intermediate filaments
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What is the diameter of microtubules?
24 nm
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What is the composition of microtubules?
13 longitudinally arranged protofilaments made of tubulin dimers
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What are the two molecules necessary for microtubule polymerization?
Mg ions and GTP
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Where does microtubule synthesis occur?
From a ring of γ-tubulin within a microtubule-organizing center possessing many capping proteins.
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What are three drugs that inhibit microtubule polymerization?
Colchicine, vinblastine, and vincristine
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What is a drug that inhibits microtubule depolymerization?
Taxol
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What is the function of inhibiting microtubule synthesis/depolymerization?
Anti-mitotic (CA)
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What are the five major functions of microtubules?
1. Support cytoplasm 2. Organelle support 3. Cell division 4. Motility of cilia and flagella 5. Long range transport of vesicles by microtubule motor proteins
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What are the two types of motor proteins used in microtubular transport? Which way does each move along the microtubule?
Kinesin -toward the periphery (neg to pos) Dynein - toward the nucleus (positive to negative)
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A sample of cells taken from a 5 mo show an accumulation of VLCFAs, and a biopsy of the cerebellum show lipdi deposits. What is your diagnosis?
Zellweger syndrome

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