Chp3 cellular level Flashcards
What is the study of cells?
- cytology
* part of a broader discipline of cell biology (bio, chem and phys)
What is Cell Theory
•developed by Robert Hooke
- Cells are the building blocks of all plants and animals
- Form from preexisting cells
- smallest units that perform all vital physiological functions
- maintains homeostasis at a cellular level
How many types of cells does the human body contain and which are they?
•2
- Sex cells
- Somatic cells
What are sex cells?
- germ or reproductive cells
- the sperm in males
- oocytes in females
What are somatic cells?
- soma=body
* all the other cells in the human body
What is the plasma membrane?
- outer boundary of cell
* also called cell membrane
What does plasma membrane do?
- separates cell from surrounding environment
* performs various functions
What are the four main functions of Plasma Membrane?
- Physical isolation
- Regulation of exchange w/ the environment
- sensitivity to the environment
- Structural support
What does physical isolation do?
• barrier between cell interior and surrounding extracellular fluid (interstitial fluid)
What happens in Regulation of exchange with the environment?
- ions and nutrients enter
* waste and cellular products are released
What does sensitivity to the environment do?
- Facilitates communications
- receives information about the cells surroundings
- 1st part of cells affected by change in composition
What does structural support do?
• anchors cells and tissues
What does the Plasma membrane contain?
- Phospholipids
- Steroids
- Proteins
- Carbohydrates
What are membrane proteins?
- proteins that are much denser than lipids
* 55% of the plasma membrane
What are the two structural classes of membrane proteins?
- Integral proteins
2. Peripheral proteins
What are integral proteins?
- Part of membrane structure that can’t be removed w/o damage
- Also called Transmembrane proteins
What are Peripheral proteins?
- bound to the inner or outer surface of membrane
* easily separated from membrane
What are the functions of Membrane proteins?
- Anchoring proteins
- Recognition proteins (identifiers)
- Enzymes
- receptor proteins
- Carrier proteins
- Channels
What does anchoring proteins do?
- attach plasma membrane to other structures
- stabilize its position.
- bound to cytoskeleton
What is network of supporting filaments?
• Cytoskeleton
What does identifiers do?
- recognition proteins
* recognize other cells are normal or abnormal
What does enzymes do?
• Catalyze reaction in the extracellular fluid or cytosol
What does receptor proteins do?
• Bind and respond to Ligands
Ions, hormones
What does carrier proteins do?
• Transport specific substances across membrane
What does Channels in peripheral proteins do?
• Create pores for water and solute transport
What are membrane carbohydrates?
- Make 3% of plasma membrane weight
* components of complex molecules PROTEOGLYCANS, GLYCOPROTEINS and GLYCOLIPIDS
What are the portions of carbohydrate that extend outside the membrane called?
- Glycolaxys
* sticky sugar coat
What are the functions of Glycolaxys?
- Lubrication and protection
- Anchoring and locomotion
- Specificity and biding (receptor)
- Recognition (immune response)
What is cytoplasm?
- all materials inside the cell and outside the nucleus
* contains more protein than the extracellular fluid
What does the cytoplasm contain?
- Cytosol
2. Organelles
What is cytosol?
• intracellular fluid
What are organelles?
• Internal structures that performs most of the task to keep the cell alive.
What are the two categories of cellular organelles?
- Nonmembranous organelles
2. Membranous organelles
What does the Nonmembranous organelle include?
- Does not have a membrane
- includes the Cytoskeleton,
- microvilli,
- Centrioles,
- Cilia,
- Ribosomes and
- Proteasomes
What does the membranous organelles include?
- has a membrane
- include Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Golgi apparatus
- Lysosomes
- Peroxisomes
- Mitochondria
What is the cytoskeleton?
- Cell’s skeleton
* Provides an Internal protein that gives cytoplasm strength and flexibility (shape)
What is cytoskeleton composed of?
- Microfilaments
- Intermediate filaments
- Microtubules
What are microfilaments?
- smallest filaments
- build from protein ACTIN
- generally peripherally located
What do microfilaments do?
- Anchor cytoskeleton to integral proteins of plasma membrane
- Determine the consistency of cytoplasm
- Actin interacts with the protein MYOSIN to produce movement
What does intermediate filaments do?
- Mi size
- stabilizes the position of organelles
- anchor to surrounding cells
What are microtubules?
- large hollow tubes
- Built from protein Tubulin
- Largest component of cytoskeleton
What does microtubules do?
- Gives cell its strength
- Its a vesicle transport
- form spindle during Cell division
What are thick filaments?
- Massive bundles of subunits
- composed of person MYOSIN
- Appear only in muscle cells
What is Microvilli?
• Small finger shaped projections
What does Microvilli do?
• Increase the surface are of the cell for absorption
What are centrioles?
- Cylindrical structures
* Built from 9 microtubule triplets
What does centrioles do?
• form spindle apparatus during cell division
What is the centrosome?
- Cytoplasm surrounding the centrioles
* the heart of the cytoskeletal system
What is cilia?
- cilium for singular
- Long, thin extensions from the cell
- 9 PAIRS of microtubules
What does Cilia do?
• move fluids across the cell surface
What builds polypeptides?
- Ribosomes
* Responsible for protein synthesis
What are the two major types of functional ribosomes?
- Free ribosomes
2. Fixed ribosomes
What do free ribosomes do?
- scattered through the cytoplasm
* manufacture proteins for cell
What do Fixed ribosomes do?
- attached to Endoplasmic Reticulum
* Manufacture proteins for secretion
What are Proteasomes?
• Organelles that contain an assortment of protein digesting enzymes
What is phospholipid bilayer?
- Phospholipid molecules in the Plasma membrane that form two layers
- forms most of surface are
- 42% of its weight
- hydrophilic
- hydrophobic
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)?
- network of intracellular membranes
* connected to the nuclear envelope
How many and what are the major functions of ER?
• 4
- Synthesis
- Storage
- Transport
- Detoxification
What does ER synthesize?
- proteins,
- carbohydrates and
- lipids
What does the ER store?
•synthesized molecules and materials
What does ER transport?
• materials w/in the ER
What does ER detoxifies?
• Drugs or toxins
What is cisternae?
• Long hollow tubes
• Flattened sheets
• chambers
Formed by ER
What is Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum?
- Does not have ribosomes attached to it
* synthesizes lipids and carbohydrates
What lipids and carbohydrates does SER synthesize?
- phospholipids and cholesterol (membranes)
- steroids (reproductive system)
- Glycerides ( liver and fat cells)
- Glycogen ( muscles)
What is Rough Endoplasmic reticulum?
- system covered with Ribosomes
* combination of workshop and shipping warehouse
What does the RER do?
- Active is protein and glycoprotein synthesis
- Facilitates Polypeptide folding into correct protein structures
- encloses products in TRANSPORT VESICLES
What are the 3 main functions of Golgi Apparatus?
• modifies and aorta protein
1. Modifies and packages secretion
•hormones or enzymes thought exocytosis
- Renews or modifies the Plasma membrane
- Packages special enzymes w/in vesicle for use in the cytoplasm
What are Lysosomes?
- powerful digestive enzymes-containing vesicles
* eats them
What do lysosomes do?
- degrade old organelles
- degrade extracellular materials
- degrade damaged cells
What ate Peroxisomes?
- smaller than lysosomes
* enzyme-containing vesicles
What do Peroxisomes do?
- Break down fatty acids and organic compounds
* Produce hydrogen peroxide
What is Continuous movement and exchange of membrane parts by vesicles called?
• Membrane flow
-allows adaptation and change
What does the membranes are interconnected?
• all membranes EXCEPT for the mitochondria
(Nuclear envelope, RER, SER, transport vesicles, Golgi apparatus, secretory vesicles, cell membrane, endosomes, lysosomes, Peroxisomes, are all i yet connected)
What is the mitochondria?
• organelle responsible for energy production ATP
What is the structure of the mitochondria?
- double membrane
- inner
- outer
What does the inner membrane of mitochondria consist of?
• numerous folds called Cristae
What does the outer membrane of mitochondria consist of?
• matrix
What are the steps of ATP (energy) production of the mitochondria?
- glycolysis (in the cytoplasm)
- Citric acid cycle (krebs cycle)
- Electron transport chain
What is cellular respiration?
- aerobic metabolism
* production of ATP using oxygen
What do Proteasomes do?
- Degradative function
- Dissemble damaged protein for recycle
- key role in immune response
What is the nucleus?
- Largest organelle
- Control center for cellular operations
- Storage and retrieves information
What does the structure of the nucleus consist of?
- Nuclear envelope
- Nuclear pores
- Nucleoli
What does the nuclear envelope do?
- Surrounds the Nucleus
* Separates it from cytosol
What I are the Nuclear pores?
• Large protein where chemical communication between the nucleus and the cytoplasm occur
What is the Nucleoli?
• Transient nuclear organelles that synthesize ribosomal RNA
What is the function of the nucleus?
• DNA w/in the nucleus contain all the information to build and “run” the organism
What is the fluid content of the nucleus called?
- nucleoplasm
* which contains the nuclear matrix
What are the 2 contents of the nucleus?
- Chromatin
2. Chromosomes
What is chromatin?
- in cell not dividing
* Loosely coiled DNA mad structuring proteins
What are chromosomes?
- in dividing cells
* tightly coiled DNA
What is the function of the nucleus?
• DNA w/in the nucleus contain all the information to build and “run” the organism
What is the fluid content of the nucleus called?
- nucleoplasm
* which contains the nuclear matrix
What are the 2 contents of the nucleus?
- Chromatin
2. Chromosomes
What is chromatin?
- in cell not dividing
* Loosely coiled DNA mad structuring proteins
What are chromosomes?
- in dividing cells
- tightly coiled DNA
- 46 of them
Chemical language the cells uses?
• Genetic code
What does DNA control?
- Protein synthesis
- Cells structure
- Cell function
What is protein synthesis?
• Assembling of functional polypeptides in the cytoplasm through translation
What does protein synthesis require?
- Gene activation
- Transcription
- Translation
What is Gene activation?
• Uncoiling DNA (bounded by histone) to access information
What is transcription?
• Copying information from DNA to mRNA
Base sequence that reads “start” in transcription is?
• Promoter
Base sequence that reads “stop here” in transcription is?
• Terminator
What does RNA polymerase produce in transcription?
• messenger RNA (mRNA)
What is “edited” during RNA processing in transcription?
- Pre-mRNA
* where introns is removed and exons are spliced together
What is translation?
• Interpreting information in mRNA to build polypeptide chain
What roles do Ribosome play on translation?
• Reads code from mRNA in chtoplasm
What does tRNA do in translation?
• delivers amino acids to ribosome according to mRNA codons.
What happens at the end of translation?
• Amino acids get assembled into polypeptide chains
Where are functional proteins produced?
• RER and Golgi apparatus
What is permeability of the cell membrane?
• Determines what moves in and out of the cell
What are the 3 types of permeability?
- Impermeable
- Freely permeable
- Selectively permeable
Nothing passes through means membrane is?
• impermeable
Everything passes through means membrane is?
• Freely permeable
Some materials passes freely, other don’t in membrane is?
- Selectively permeable
* ex. the plasma membrane
In what bases does permeability restrict material?
- Size
- Electrical charge
- Molecular shape
- Lipid Solubility
How can a membrane transport be characterized?
- By energy requirements
2. By mechanism
What are the 2 energy requirements of member transport?
- Active- requires ATP
2. Passive- doesn’t not require energy
What are the 3 mechanism of membrane transport?
- Diffusion
- Carrier-mediated transport
- Vascular transport
What is diffusion?
- Passive
- movement of substances from area or high concentration to low
- occurs spontaneously
What factors influence Diffusion?
- Distance
- Molecule size
- Temperature
- Concentration gradient
- Electrical forces- opposites attract
•shorter,smaller,hotter, greater is faster
What are the types of Diffusion
- Simple diffusion
- Channel mediated (facilitated)
- Osmosis
What is simple diffusion?
- hydrophobic
* Moves directly across phospholipid bilayer
What can enter through simple diffusion?
- Alcohol
- Fatty acids
- Steroids
- C2 and CO2
What is channel mediated diffusion?
- facilitates diffusion
- hydrophilic
- moving through a protein across membrane
What can enter through channel-mediated diffusion?
- simple sugars
- ions
- bigger in size, has charge, interacts with channel protein
What is osmosis?
- Special case of diffusion
- movement of water across membrane
- water moves towards side with higher concentration of solutes
What is Osmotic pressure?
• The force of a concentration gradient of water
What is hydrostatic pressure?
• Force needed to block osmosis equal to osmotic pressure
What is the total solute concentration in an squamous solution called?
• osmolarity
What describes how a solution affects the cell?
• Tonicity
What are the 3 types of Tonicity?
- Isotonic
- Hypotonic
- Hypertonic
What is Isotonic?
- same Solution in or out
* water doesn’t not flow in nor out
What is hypotonic?
- surrounding solutions has less solutes
* water flows into of cell
What is hypertonic
- surrounding solutions has more solutes
* water flows out of cell
What can pass through CARRIER- mediated transport?
- hydrophilic substances
* ions and organic substances
What are the 3 characteristics of carrier-mediated transport?
- Specificity
- Saturation limits
- Regulation
What is specificity?
- One transport
* One substance
What are saturation limits?
- the rate
* depending on transport proteins not subtrate
What is regulation in carrier-mediated transport?
• Cofactors such as hormones
How can 2 substances move in the same direction at the same time?
• by Cotransport
How can 2 substances move in the opposite direction at the same time?
• by Countertransport
What requires energy?
- Passive transports (aka facilitated diffusion)
* Active transport
What is passive transport?
- Facilitated diffusion
- from high to low
- carriers transport large molecules (glucose, amino acids)
What is active transport??
- from low to high
- against concentration
- require ATP
- ion pumps
- exchange pumps (Countertransport)
What is Ion pump!
- moves ions
- NA+
- K+
- Ca2+
- Mg2+
How is energy provided to fuel active transport?
- Primary active transport
* Secondary active transport
What is primary active transport?
- requires DIRECT input of energy
- ATP hydrolysis
- Sodium-potassium exchange pump
What is secondary active transport?
- requires INDIRECT input of energy
- Potential energy stored in an ion gradient
- sodium-glucose cotransporter
What is vascular transport?
- Bulk transport through vesicles
* Active
Types of vesicular transport
- exocytosis
* endocytosis
What is exocytosis?
• Use of vesicles to transport materials Out of cell
What is endocytosis?
• use of vesicle to transport materials into the cell
What are the ways endocytosis happen?
- receptor mediated
- pinocytosis
- phagocytosis
How does receptor mediated work?
- receptor glycoprotein bind to target molecules Ligands
- coated vesicles
- content of endosome are processed by cell
What is pinocytosis?
- “drinking”
* brings in extracellular fluid
What is phagocytosis?
- bring in large substances
* use of pseudopodia
Energy stored across membrane due to separation of charges (ions)?
- transmembrane potential
- sodium high outside cell
- potassium high inside cell
What is resting potential?
- measurement of transmembrane potential
* ranges del -10 mV to -100mV
Where is most of cells life spent?
• no dividing state of interphase
What are the 3 stages of somatic cell division?
- DNA replication
- Mitosis
- Cytokinesis
What happens in DNA replication?
.• Duplicates genetic material exactly
What happens in mitosis?
• Divides genetic material equally
What happens in cytokines?
.• Divides cytoplasm and organelles into 2 daughter cells
What is interphase?
• non dividing period
What are the phases of interphase?
- Gzero
- G1
- S
- G2
What happens in Gzero?
• Specialized cells functions only
What happens in G1
- cell growth
- organelle duplication
- protein synthesis
What happens in S phase?
• DNA replication and histone synthesis
What happens in G2?
• finishes protein synthesis and centriole replication
How does DNA get replicated?
- Helicases
- DNA polymerase
- Ligases
What does Helicase do?
• Unwind the DNA strands
What happens in DNA polymerase?
• uses complimentary base pairing to build the new strand
What does Ligases do?
• piece together sections of DNA
What does slower miotic rate mean?
• longer cell life