Ch 1 - 5/2 Dobson Flashcards
SNPs and the causative genetic factor are said to be in what?
Linkage disequilibrium
What type of chromatin is lightly staining, and lightly packed?
Active or inactive?
Euchromatin
Active
Describe heterochromatin
Inactive, dark staining, tightly packed
Which histone is the linker protein?
H1
What type of residues on histones may be phosphorylated for activation or repression?
Serine residues
DNA methylation results in what?
Transcriptional silencing
Describe the process of gene silencing starting with primary miRNA.
Through what mechanisms may gene silencing occur?
Pri-miRNA -> pre-miRNA -> cleaved by DICER -> dsmiRNA -> ssmiRNA which associates with RISC -> target mRNA directs for translational repression or mRNA cleavage
How do lncRNAs modulate gene expression?
Bind chromatin and restrict RNA Pol (XIST) results in gene silencing
What are the 4 ways lncRNAs can affect DNA?
Gene activation
Gene suppression
Promote chromatin methylation and acetylation
Assemble protein complexes
In what cell types is the SER abundant in?
Used for what processes?
Gonads and liver
Steroid hormone and lipoprotein synthesis
Modification of hydrophobic compounds into water-soluble molecules
Which lipid is a marker for apoptosis?
Normally located on what face?
Also serves as what?
Phosphatidylserine
Inner
Cofactors for platelets in blood clotting
What lipid can be phosphorylated and serve as electrostatic scaffold for intracellular proteins?
Can also be what?
phosphatidylinositol
Hydrolyzed by PLC to generate DAG and IP3
What lipids are located on the inner face?
Outer face?
Phosphatidylserine
Phosphtidylethanolamine
Phosphatidylinositol
Phosphatidylcholine
Sphingomyelin / glycolipids
What is responsible for pumping polar compounds (chemotherapeutic drugs) OUT of cells and may render cancer cells resistant to treatment?
MDR protein
If a protein does not contain a signal sequence, where does translation occur?
Free ribosomes in the cytosol
In caveolae-mediated endocytosis noncoated PM invaginations are associated with what?
They are implicated with the regulation of transmembrane signaling via the internalization of what?
GPI-linked molecules, cAMP binding proteins, SRC kinases and the folate receptor
Receptors and Integrins
In muscle cells the protein myosin binds to what? This process is driven by what?
Actin
ATP hydrolysis
Cadherins are associated with what cell-cell interaction?
Integrins?
Desmosomes
Hemidesmosomes
What organelle is responsible for sequestering intracellular calcium?
SER
What process is being described?
Lysosomes fuse with endosomes/phagosomes to facilitate degradation of internalized contents
Heterophagy
What process involves senescent organelles or denatured proteins targeted for lysosomes-drive degradation by encircling them with a double membrane derived from the ER?
Activated by what?
Marked by what protein?
Autophagy
cell stressors
LC3 protein