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1
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What is a good definition for the cell cycle?

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The stages that a cell goes through between divisions.

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What is a mitogen?

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Something that induces cell division.

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What are the three stages of the cell cycle?

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Interphase
Mitosis
Cytokinesis

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What is mitosis?

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The segregation or division of nucleus

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Cyclins are expressed _________.

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Cyclically.

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When are cdks present?

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They are always present, but rely on cyclins.

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When G0 is referred to as the quiescent phase, what does this mean?

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It means that cells are doing normal functions.

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Before the G1 restriction point, mutagens are required for progression into cell division.

What are such examples of mitogens?

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PDGF
EGF

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9
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How does EGF result in progression into the cell cycle?

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MAPK will phosphorylate transcription factors like AP-1 stuff and Myc that will promote expression of genes needed for cell cycle progression.

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What are genes that are transcribed in G1?

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  1. Cyclins
  2. Checkpoint proteins
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Cell cycle progression is ___________, ___________, and _____________.

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  1. Unidirectional
  2. Bistable (on or off)
  3. Regulated by checkpoints.
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What are cyclins?

What do they do to CDK’s?

How does their concentration change during the cell cycle?

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They are regulatory subunits (coassign with other proteins) of cyclin-dependent kinases.

They induce a conformational change in the catalytic subunit of the CDK, exposing the active site (kinase domain)

Their concentration changes during the cell cycle.

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What are CDK’s?

How does their concentration change during the course of the cell cycle?

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They are ser thr kinases that regulate the cell cycle progression, and are activated by cyclins.

They stay the same.

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What is the first cyclin to be expressed?

Who expresses it?

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Cyclin D

AP-1

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What activates the expression of Cyclin E?

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Cyclin D

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What is the G1 checkpoint?

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It occurs before the cell goes into the S phase.

It arrests the cell cycle in response to DNA damage.

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What is the G2 checkpoint?

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It occurs before the cell goes into mitosis at the end of G2

It arrests the cell cycle in response to damaged or unreplicated DNA

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18
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What is the M-phase checkpoint?

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it occurs during metaphase of mitosis

it arrests the cell cycle in response to misalignment on the mitotic spindle.

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If checkpoints are working correctly, what are the consequences?

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There will be genomic and chromosomal instability.

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What are some things that cdks are responsible for phosphorylating?

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Transcriptional regulators
Cytoskeleton proteins
Nuclear pore proteins
Histones

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21
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What is the result of cdks on each of these?

A. Transcriptional regulators
B. Cytoskeleton proteins
C. Nuclear pore proteins

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A. Changes in gene expression

B. Chromosomal condensation

C. Nuclear breakdown

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What is the cell cycle progression controlled by?

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  1. Protein phosphorylation by kinases
  2. Protein dephosphorylation by phosphatases
  3. Ubiquitination - tagging stuff that marks it to be degraded
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23
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How can cdk activity be regulated?

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  1. Associate with cyclins - it will work
  2. Association with cdk inhibitors - it won’t work
  3. Addition of an inhibitory kinase
  • likely by wee kinase
  1. Addition of an activating phosphate
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What about the conformation of the inactive cdk prevents it from working?

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  1. Blocks substrate binding
  2. Blocks the correct alignment of ATP
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What does cyclin binding do to cdk?

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it causes a conformational change.

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What are the two families of inhibitors of CDKs?

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p16 (INK) family - bind cdk 4 and 6 inhibiting the binding of cdks to cyclin D

p21 (Cip/Kip) family - block the ATP binding site of cdk2
cdk still binds to cyclin

27
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What can cyclin dependent kinases do that keeps the cell cycle going?

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They prevent p21 family activity, so cdk2 is able to be activated by cyclin E

28
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What about inhibitors are important for progression of the cell cycle?

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Inhibitors being inactivated are important for progression.

29
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How does Wee1 kinase inhibit cdks?

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It phosphorylates 2 sites on the amino terminal end of the cdk, which interferes with ATP binding.

30
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What are the two steps to activate cdks that have been inhibited via phosphorylation?

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  1. cdc25 phosphatase must take these phosphates off
  2. Central threonine must be phosphorylated by CAK (CDK activating kinase)
31
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What is the RB protein?

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A nuclear, tumor suppressor that regulates E2F activity

It is also a key substrate of cyclin-D to cdk 4/6 complex.

32
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What is E2F?

What is included on the functional heterodimer?

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It is a family of transcription factors that regulate expression of cell cycle genes (things like cyclin E, cyclin A, and cdk 2)

It has an EF2 subunit with a DP subunit.

33
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Describe the structure of the whole RB protein.

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It is a pocket protein with a A domain and a B domain joined by a linker region.

HDAC and E2F bind to the pocket region

34
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What does RB do for the cell cycle?

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It blocks TF’s (E2F)

It holds onto HDACs that take acetyl groups off the DNA making it more condensed

35
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What happens to the RB complex when cyclin D phosphorylates

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The first phosphorylation kicks the HDAC it is holding onto on the B domain off, allowing the cyclin E gene to be transcripted.

36
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What happens when RB becomes hyperphosphorylated by cyclin D and E?

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RB becomes inactive allowing the cell cycle to move into S phase.

37
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RB being inactivated is what checkpoint?

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G1 checkpoint.

38
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What does the G2 checkpoint do?

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It blocks the entry into M phase if the DNA is damaged or not replicated properly.

39
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When DNA damage is noticed, what happens?

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ATR or ATM kinases are activated.

40
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What do ATR/ATM kinases do?

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They will phosphorylate Chk1 (ATR) or Chk2 (ATM)

41
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What do Chk1 and Chk2 do?

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They inactivate cdc 25 phosphatase

When this is inactive, CDKs cannot be activated.

42
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What is decatenation?

What happens and what enzymes are involved?

A

It is part of the G2 checkpoint and aims to detangle the intertwined sister chromatids

Topoisomerase II creates DNA ds breaks that are then fixed by repair.

43
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What does the mitotic checkpoint entail?

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It involves checking the spindle assembly - ensuring the correct chromosomal segregation and production of two genetically identical nuclei.

44
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What normally happens in metaphase?

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The spindle microtubules attach to the centromere of chromosomes.

45
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If normal activity doesn’t happen correctly, what occurs?

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The unattached chromatid pairs will recruit checkpoint proteins that inhibit the APC.

46
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What is APC?

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It is Anaphase Promoting Complex.

47
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If correct attachment occurs, what happens?

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The APC inhibition is relieved and cohesin is removed.

48
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In simple terms what controls APC?

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It is controlled by M phase cyclin-cdk.

49
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What does APC do?

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It activates separase, which hydrolyzes cohesin.

50
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What do the Aurora Kinases do?

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The regulate chromosome segregation and spindle checkpoint.

51
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What does Aurora A do?

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It localizes to the centromeres during interphase and is important for the assembly of the spindle apparatus.

52
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What does Aurora B do?

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It is important for bipolar spindle attachment, the spindle checkpoint, and monitoring chromosomal segregation.

53
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What does Aurora C do?

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It localizes to the spindle poles late in mitosis.

54
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Growth signal autonomy is one of the hallmarks of cancer. What is this chapter did you learn that causes this?

A
  1. There are mutations within the GF signalling pathway
  2. There are mutations in the genes that code for cell cycle proteins
55
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There is a mutation within cdk 4 that blocks binding to INK 4 inhibitors in some melanomas.

What will this result in?

A

CDK will never be able to be inactivated.

56
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There is a chromosomal translocation that involves the overexpression of cdk6 seen in some leukemias.

What would be the result?

A

CDK6 would be more easily activated.

57
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There is overexpression via gene amplification in breast cancer and squamous cell carcinomas.

What is the result?

A

The cell cycle moves forward much easier.

58
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There is a deletion of the p16 gene is mesothelioma and pancreatic carcinoma.

What is the result?

A

There is no way to turn off CDKs that are inhibited by the p16 (INK) inhibitors.

59
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What is the most common characteristic of human solid tumors?

A

Aneuploidy.

60
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What can aneuploidy be caused by?

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  1. Defective centromeres
  2. Improper cytokinesis
  3. Changes in the mitotic checkpoint
  • weakened if there are individual components are missing
61
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What is mosaic variegated aneuploidy?

What is it caused by?

A

It is when some cells have the normal amount of chromosomes, but others display varied aneuploidy

It is caused by mutations in genes that code for checkpoint proteins.

62
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CDKs are overexpressed in many cancers.

What is Flavopiridol?

What does it do?

How is Flavopiridol given?

A

It is the first cdk inhibitor.

It is a competitive inhibitor of cdk activity that targets the ATP binding site.

It will induce cell cycle arrest at G1/S and G2/M

Given via IV

63
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What would chk1 and chk 2 inhibitors do?

A

They would prevent cell cycle arrest, because normally=

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