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Cytoskeleton Flashcards

1
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What are actin filaments made from?

A

Actin polymer

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2
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What are microtubules made of?

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Alpha-beta tubulin dimers

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3
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What are intermediate filaments made from?

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Intermediate filament proteins

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4
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What acin polymerises into F-actin?

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G-actin

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5
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How many other subunits does F-actin contact ?

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Three, along the strand and between the two strands

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6
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Structure of mysoin

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  • Myosin (class 2) is a hexameric protein:
  • Two heavy chains dimerise (via the coiled coil) to form the coiled-coil tail
    and two globular myosin heads
  • Each myosin head is composed of a motor domain and a lever.
  • The lever contains 2 ‘IQ’ motifs (IQxxxRGxxR)
  • Light chains bind to the IQ motifs – two per lever (two per heavy chain)
  • Essential light chain (ELC) binds to an IQ motif close to the motor
  • Regulatory light chain (RLC) binds to the IQ motif close to the coiled coil
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7
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)

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Autosomal dominant, typical missense mutations in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins. Left ventricular hypertrophy and myofibrillar disarray

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8
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Mutations in MYH7 cause what disease?

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HCM

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9
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Mutations in MYBPC cause what disease?

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HCM

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10
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Mutations in loop 1, converter and relay helix likely affect what?

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Force generation

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11
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Mutations in S2 affect

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Interacting heads motif, more ATP usage. Could affect binding of MyBPC

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12
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Mutations in non muscle myosin 2A cause these diseases

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Blood clotting disorders, deafness and kidney disorder

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13
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What does the activation of platelets depends on?

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NM2A and actin

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14
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What do smooth and non-muscle myosin 2 isoforms form?

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10S shutdown state.

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15
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What are smooth and noon-muscle myosins activated by?

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Phosphorylation of the RLC

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16
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Mutations in MYH9 cause what disorders?

A

Bleeding

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17
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Mutations in skeletal muscle actins can cause

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Skeletal muscle myopathies

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18
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What mutations cause Baraitser-Winter syndrome?

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Mutations in beta and gamma actins

19
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Symptoms of Baraitser-Winter syndrome

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Changes around the eyes: (congenital ptosis
(drooping eyelid),
* High-arched eyebrows,
* Hypertelorism (increased eye spacing),
* Missing tissue around the eye (Ocular colobomata)
* Brain malformation - anterior predominant
lissencephaly.
* May also be short
* May also have microcephaly, intellectual disability, seizures and hearing loss

20
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What is critical to forming a highly folded brain?

A

Neuronal migration

21
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What is important for neuronal migration?

A

Non muscle actins

22
Q

Keratin is an example of what type of fibre?

A

Intermediate

23
Q

What filaments are required for cell to cell and cell-ECM adhesion?

A

Intermediate

24
Q

What happens in the skin epidermis basal layer?

A

Cells adhere to underlying extracellular
matrix through focal adhesions
(hemidesmosomes)
Cells divide (proliferate) - express K5
and K14
Then migrate upwards to spinous layer:
Switch keratin isoform expression to K1
and K10

25
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Mutations in keratin 5 and 14 cause

A

Epidermolysis bullosa

26
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mutations in Keratin 1 and 10 cause

A

Epidermolytic Hyperkeratosis

27
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What is found at the fast growing end of microtubule tubes?

A

Beta-tubulin which hydrolyses GTP, can exchange GDP for GTP.

28
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Do both alpha and beta tubulin bind GTP?

29
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Does beta tubulin hydrolyse GTP?

A

Yes, only.

30
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What part of microtubules can be PTM’ed?

A

C terminal tails

31
Q

What are microtubules essential for?

A

Cell migration, cargo transport, mitosis and formation of synapses and neuronal cells.

32
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What are the two types of motor proteins?

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Kinesin and dynein

33
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How many types of kinesin are there?

A

Many, about 40, some specialised for trafficking like Kif5 (kinesin-1).

34
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How many types of dynein?

A

One, cytoplasmic.

35
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Which end does kinesin-1 move on microtubules?

36
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Which end of microtubules does dynein move to?

37
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Description of TUBA1A mutation derived disease

A

Cause microcephaly, developmental delay, epilepsy, lissencephaly (smooth brain).

38
Q

What residue is commonly mutated in TUBA1A

39
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What cell type are microtubules critical for?

40
Q

What is KIF1A for?

A

Anterograde transport, veiscles for pre and post synaptic assmebly. Autophagy

41
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What is KIF1C for?

A

Anterograde cargo transport and retrograde transport between Golgi and ER

42
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What disease can Kif5A mutations cause?

A

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG10), amytrophic lateral scleosis (ALS), Charcot-Tooth-Marie tyoe 2 (CMT2)

42
Q

Exon 27 deletion leads to what?

A

Aggregation

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