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Chapter 19: Control of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes Flashcards

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1
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What is differential gene expression?

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cells with the same genome express different sets of genes

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What does differential gene expression do?

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  • creates different cell types
  • arranges cells into tissues
  • coordinates activity
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What are the four additional levels of gene regulation in eukaryotes?

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  1. chromatin remodeling
  2. RNA processing
  3. mRNA stability
  4. protein degradation
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What is chromatin remodeling?

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genes must be made accessible

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What is RNA processing?

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splicing can create different combos of exons

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What is protein degradation?

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proteins can be marked and destroyed

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What is mRNA stability?

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mRNAs can be blocked or degraded

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Describe histones.

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DNA wrapped around proteins called histones

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What is a nucleosome?

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DNA + histones

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What are the 3 ways chromatin is altered during gene expression?

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  1. DNA methylation
    2.Histone acetylation
  2. chromatin-remodeling complexes
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What is DNA methylation?

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  • methyl groups (CH3) added to C nucleotides
  • catalyzed by DNA methyltransferases
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What does methylation do?

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  • condenses chromatin
  • low methylation near promoter: increase transcription and vice versa
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What is histone acetylation?

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  • acetyl groups are added to lysine on histone tails
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What are histone acetyltransferases?

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  • HATs
  • add acetyl groups, open DNA
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What are histone deacetylases?

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-HDACs
- remove acetyl groups, close DNA

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Acetylation leads to ________ chromatin.

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decondensed

17
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What are chromatin remodeling complexes?

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  • large enzyme complex that uses ATP to reshape chromatin
  • slide nucleosomes, or knock histones off the DNA
18
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What are epigenetics?

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any mechanism of inheritance due to something other than changes in DNA sequence

19
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What are the 2 major implications of epigenetics?

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  1. epigenetic patterns can be passed to offspring
  2. epigenetic patterns can be altered by environment
20
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What is the core promoter?

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binding site for RNA polymerase

21
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Describe promoter proximal elements.

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close to promoter, allow coordinated regulation of genes of the same type

22
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Describe enhancers.

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far from the promoter, bound by an activator to begin and increase transcription

23
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Describe silencers.

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far from the promoter, bound by repressors and shut down transcription

24
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Describe general transcription factors.

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  1. bind to core promoter to initiate transcription in many genes
  2. not involved in much regulation
25
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Describe regulatory transcription factors.

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  1. bind to enhancers, silencers, promoter-proximal elements
  2. specific for dif types of cells
26
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What are the 4 steps of transcription initiation?

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  1. chromatin remodeling
  2. exposure of promoter and regulatory sequences
  3. assembly of proteins
  4. RNA polymerase binds to core promoter
27
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What is chromatin remodeling?

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  • transcriptional activators bind to enhancers, recruit chromatin remodeling complexes or HATs
28
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What is exposure of promoter and regulatory sequences?

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  • a region of DNA is exposed, including the promoter, promoter-proximal element, and other enhancers
29
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What are assembly of proteins?

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  • other transcriptional activators bind to exposed DNA
  • DNA is looped and activators bind to mediator
30
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What is RNA polymerase binds to core promoter?

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  • GTFs and RNAP assemble on mediator, RNAP binds to promoter and transcription begins
31
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What is alternative splicing?

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the same primary transcript (pre-mRNA) can be spliced in different ways (same gene can yield more than one mature mRNA)

32
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What is RNA interference?

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short single stranded RNAs work w/ a protein complex to bind to mRNAs to cause either…
1. degradation of the mRNA
2. block mRNAs from translation

33
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What are the 3 RNA interference molecules?

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  • microRNAs
  • short interfering RNAs
  • PIWI-interacting RNAs
34
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What are the steps of miRNA production?

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  1. transcription by RNA polymerase II (forms hairpin)
  2. processed and exported from nucleus by special protein complexes
  3. bound by RISC and unwound into single strand
  4. RISC + mRNA base pairs to mRNA (perfect match=mRNA destroyed, imperfect match=prevent translation)
35
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What does ubiquitin do?

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small proteins that are added to a protein to degrade them

36
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What does the proteasome do?

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large complexes that break down ubiquitinated proteins

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