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what enzymes are responsible for ‘Writing’ in the histone code

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  • Histone acetyl transferases
  • Histone methyl transferases
  • Kinases
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what enzymes are responsible for ‘Erasing’ in the histone code

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  • Histone deacetylases
  • Demethylases
  • Phosphatases
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what enzymes are responsible for ‘Reading’ in the histone code

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  • Bromodomain proteins
  • Chromodomain proteins
  • PWWP proteins
  • PhD
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Cells have multiple remodelling complexes, all have what?

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Snf2-related ATPase

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name all 4 members of the SWI2/SNF2 ATPase Superfamily

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  • SWI2/SNF2 superfamily
  • ISWI subfamily
  • CHD/Mi2 Subfamily
  • Ino80 subfamily
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how are the 4 distint subfamily characterised

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additional domains and architecture of the ATPase domain

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What additional domain does SWI2/SNF2 have

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Bromo

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What additional domain does ISWI have

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SANT

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What additional domain does CHD/Mi2 have

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Chromo + DNA binding

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How is Ino80 subfamily characterised ?

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it has two ATPase domain and no additional domain

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ATP-dependent Chromatin remodelling causes _

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Sliding, unwrapping, eviction, spacing & histone variant exchange

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what is the catalytic subunit of SWI/SNF

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Snf2 (or Swi2)

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in the presence of DNA or nucleosome, SWI/SNF hydrolyses _ ATP molecules per minute

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1000

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what other enzyme is Snf2 related two

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DNA helicases

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what is the hypothesised mechanism for Snf2

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Thought to be a molecular motor that that uses the energy from ATP hydrolysis to track along DNA and induce torsion

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how does Snf2 affect chromatin

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disrupts histone-DNA interaction and movement of the nucleosome

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which two enzymes regulate the same genes in yeast

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SWI/SNF and the GCN5 HAT

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HATs and ATP-dependent remodellers are commonly recruited to the same _

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promoters

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what is Snf2 help tether it to acetylated nucleosomes

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Bromodomains

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H_ & A_ function co-operatively

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HATs & ATP-dependent remodellers

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Yeast SWI/SNF regulates _ in genral transcripton and _ in cell cycle

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  • regulates expression of 5% of 6000 Y genes
  • Regulates 25% of genes expressed at the end of mitosis
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In terms of general transcription, Human SWI/SNF needs a number of what

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transcriptional factors -glucocorticoid and retinoid receptor, heat shock factor and MyoD

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what role does Human SWI/SNF play in the cell cycle

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control the cycle via interaction with Rb & cyclin E

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what role does Human SWI/SNF play in the development

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deletion results in embryonic lethality

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what role does Human SWI/SNF play in the tumour suppresion
mutations are associated with a variety of tumour types
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what are the chromatin modifying factors involved in transcriptional repression
- Histone Deacetylases (HDACs) - ATP-dependent Remodellers - Histone Methylases (heterochromatin)
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where active regions of the genome are hyperacetylated, repressed regions are
hypoacetylated
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HDACs function as _
co-repressors
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How many major groups of HDACs are there
4
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What are the groups which contain classical HDACs and what are they dependent on
Class I,II,IV Zinc
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how does Class III of HDACs differ from the others
Sir2 family, they require NAD as a co-factor
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give an example of of a HDAC Co-Repressor Complexes which is conserved in yeast and mammals
SIN3 Co-Repressor
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give an example of an ATP-dependent remodellers which commonly mediate transcriptional repression
The NuRD complex which belong to the Mi2/CHD family
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what are the two basic types of chromatin
Euchromatin & Heterochromatin
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describes Euchromatin
gene rich and with the potential to be transcribed
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describes heterochromatin
gene poor, repetitive regions, transcriptional silencing
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what are the biochemical features of heterochromatin
1) Hypoacetylation 2) Specific Histone H3 methylation (e.g. Lys9 & Lys27 3) Association of specific silencing factors
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Heterochromatin Protein 1 is a _ protein
Chromodomain
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Chromodomains often recognise and bind to which residue
methylated lysine
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The chromodomain of HP1 is specific for _
H3 Lys9me2/3
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Binding of HP1 is though to _
compact nucleosomal array and act as platform for the recruitment of further activities that prevent recruitment/activity of RNA pol II
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What can be used to analyse heterohromatin
reporter silencing assay using fisson yeast
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describe the experiment used for analysis of heterochromatin
Normal wild type - ade6 gene expressed white colonies Silencing reporter strain - ade6 silence express red colonies (result from build up of a red pigment which is an adenine biosynthetic intermediate
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A mutation in gene encoding a component of heterochromatin can caused what colour colonies in Heterochromatin Analysis
White/pink as ade6 silencing alleviated
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what is X-chromosome inactivation
Female have 2 X chromosome, one of which is inactivated, this equalises the number of X-linked genes expressed in males and females
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what is the condensed structure that is seen in the nucleus of inactivated X-chrm
Barr Body (assembled into a specific form of heterochromatin)
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How does Inactive X (Xi) form
- Xist is inactive by Tsix during early development -later in development Xist is upregulated which inactive Tsix - Xist coats chromosome and recruits H3K27 methylase, it goes on to recruit further silencing factors
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what is the difference between inactive X (Xi) and active X (Xa)
Xa doesn't have Xist unregulated and there for isn't covered and doesn't recruit silencing factors during late development

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