HHP Review Flashcards
What do lipid rafts contain high concentrations of?
Cholesterol, glycosphingolipids, membrane associated proteins
How do bacteria and viruses take entry into cell through lipid rafts?
They hijack lipid rafts with their signaling mechanism
What are two types of lipid rafts?
Planar-Flotillin proteins
Caveolar- Caveolin proteins
What does flotillin/planar lipid raft function in?
Signaling pathways, recruitment of specific membrane proteins into rafts
What does caveolin lipid raft function in?
Invagination of plasma membrane initiates vesicle formation
What is actin attached to laminin by?
Integrin linker protein
What is role of cholesterol in membrane fluidity?
Prevents tight packing of saturated fatty acids therefore preventing membrane freezing in cold temperature
Structural buffer for unsaturated fatty acids therefore limits excessive fluidity in warm temperatures
Is macropinocytosis actin or clathrin dependent?
Actin dependent, clathrin independent
Is phagocytosis actin or clathrin dependent?
Actin dependent, clathrin independent
Is receptor mediated endocytosis actin or clathrin dependent?
Clathrin dependent
When does clathrin coated vesicles take place?
Receptor mediated endocytosis
Vesicle movement from golgi to endosomes
Trans face
When does coatomer coated vesicles take place?
Anterograde transport- vesicles move from rER to golgi, coated with COPII
Retrograde transport- vesicles move from golgi to rER, coated with COPI
When does caveolin coated vesicles take place?
Smooth muscle, endothelial cells
What do microvilli contain at core?
Where are they found?
Actin filaments
Absorptive cells; intestine, gall bladder, kidney tubules
What do cilia contain at core?
Where are they found?
Microtubules
Respiratory tract, oviduct
Where are basolateral folds found?
Absorptive cells; intestine, kidney tubules
Where is cytochrome C enzyme found?
Mitochondria
What is the importance of sarcoplasmic reticulum in striated muscle fibers?
Storage of calcium, trigger contraction of myofibrils
What is proteasome mediated protein degradation tagged by?
Ubiquitin, used by cells to destroy abnormal proteins
What does malfunction of proteasome mediated degradation lead to?
Decreased protein degradation- Alzhiemers disease, angleman syndrome
Overexpression, accelerated degradation of proteins -infection with HPV
What is lysosomal storage disease?
Absence of certain lysosomal enzymes, due to mutations in a gene that encodes lysosomal proteins
Tay-Sachs disease
Gauchers disease
Pompes disease
Neimann-Pick disease
What do peroxisomes regulate?
Hydrogen peroxides levels in cells, uses catalase enzymes
In sER
What does malfunction of peroxisome lead to?
Zellwger syndrome
Hypotonia, liver jaundice, polycystic kidney disease
What is karyokinesis?
Division of nucleus
What is cytokinesis?
Division of cytoplasm
What is importance of G0 phase?
Some cell types are quiescent, enter G0 and perform its function without actively preparing to divide, ex. Neuroblast
Other cells may restart division if they get right signal
Stem cells hang out here
What does p53 do for G1/S checkpoint?
If it senses DNA damage, it halts progression of cell cycle by blocking Cdk2 activity until damage is repaired
What does p53 do for G2/M checkpoint?
In case of damage to DNA after S phase, it halts cycle and inhibits action of Cdk1, stopping progression of cell from G2 to mitosis
Cdk cannot work without cyclins
True, only the cyclin CDK complex is an active kinase
What happens if p53 is not intact?
Abnormal/malignant cells are formed
What does G1 cyclin, cyclin D interact with?
CDK4 and CDK6
What does G1/S cyclins, cyclin E interact with?
CDK2, starts the system called START-triggers the G1/S phase transition, at this point cells are irreversibly committed to cell division
Further activates E2F mediated gene transcription, p53 and other kinases
What does S phase cyclins, cyclin A and E interact with?
Binds to CDK2 and are responsible for DNA synthesis
What does mitotic cyclins, B cyclins interact with?
CDK1, promotes progression though mitosis
Mitotic cyclin CDK complexes are synthesizes during S phase and G2, but activities are held in check until DNA synthesis is completed (B cyclin forms in previous phase, but becomes active in M phase)
Need laminin in nucleus to function properly, Histone H1 protein
What is the most important regulatory control that restricts cyclins to the appropriate cell cycle stage?
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Removes cyclin and CDK, they only function once during phase, new cyclin and CDK are used for every phase
CDKs play a important role in cell cycle regulation by?
Control cell division and modulate transcription in response to several extra and intracellular cues
Cyclin CDK complex provide a phosphate group to a number of proteins that control processes in cell cycle, activity can be further modulated by?
Phosphorylation and other binding proteins like p27
What is process of Rb protein and apoptosis?
Rb is tumor suppressor protein, it inhibits apoptosis
Phosphorylation of Rb protein releases E2F transcription factor that inhibits Rb gene, so apoptosis operates well
E2F also activates genes for many G1 activities and for cyclin A
What enzyme does sER need for detocxification?
Cytochrome P450
What is the fibrillae center/nucleolar organizer?
Contains different chromosomes that have the rRNA genes
What is the dense fibrillar component/pars fibrosa?
Contains ribosomal genes actively undergoing transcription, RNA coding happens here
What is the granular component/pars granulosa?
Site of initial ribosome assembly, small or large, then sent to cytoplasm and form complete ribosome
What is the nuclear pore complex?
Mediates transport of cellular material between nucleus and cytoplasm
What happens when nuclear lamin structure is impaired?
Can cause tissue specific diseases like nerve and skeletal muscle development, premature aging
What disease happens when there is mutation to lamin or lamin receptors?
Development of Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
What does a protein use to get into nucleus through nuclear pore complex?
Importin or lmp
What does a ribosomal subunit use to leave the nucleus through nuclear pore complex?
Exportin or exp
What are some cell loss disorders?
AIDS
Alzheimers
Parkinsons
Aplastic anemia
Myocardial infarction
What are some cell accumulation disorders?
Cancer
Lupus
Glomerulonephritis
Viral infections
What are characteristics of necrosis?
Rapid cell swelling and lysis, pro inflammatory
What are characteristics of apoptosis?
Nuclear DNA fragments, cytoskeleton destroyed, no spillage of contents
What is karyolysis?
Basophilia of chromatin fades due to loss of DNA by endonucleases
What is pyknosis?
Irreversible chromatin condensation, shrinking nuclei
What is karyorrhexis?
Fragmentation of the nucleus, disappears in 1 to 2 days
What do mitochondria release in apoptosis?
Cytochrome C and SMAC/DIABLO into cytoplasm, caspase activation is triggered
What is SMAC/DIABLO?
Second mitochondria derived activator of caspases/ direct inhibitor of apoptosis binding protein with low isoelectric point
What does cytochrome C activate?
Initiates initiator caspases, which activate executioner caspases, activates endonucleases which fragment DNA and destroy cytoskeleton
What are endonucleases activation dependent on?
Ca2+ and Mg2+
What is membrane blebbing in apoptosis?
Molecules like phosphatidylserine are moved from P face to E face, this signals all phagocytic cells to come and remove cell blebbing
What is intrinsic pathway of apoptosis?
Loss of nutrients, oncogenes, tumor suppressor p53 (p53 makes mitochondria discharge cytochrome C and SMAC/DIABLO)
What is extrinsic pathway of apoptosis?
Free radicals, oxidants, UV or ionizing radiation, cytokines (TGF-B), ligation of FAS, release of granzymes from cytotoxin T cells or NK cells can trigger apoptosis
What is most important regulator of apoptosis?
Bcl-2 family of proteins
What does Bcl-2 proteins consist of?
BAX-pro apoptitic Bcl2 protein, can activate and deactivate aopotosis
Regulate release of death promoting factors from mitochondria
p53 activates BAX which allows cytochrome C into cytoplasm
What is anoikis?
Apoptotic process that occurs in cells in response to loss of adhesion to ECM
Thought to involve signaling through integrins attached to ECM
What can go wrong if cells develop mechanisms to survive anoikis?
Metastatic cancers
What is paraptosis?
Cell death mediated by kinases, NOT caspases, can be induced in response to growth factor receptors
What is pyroptosis?
Inflammation induced death involving caspase 1
What is necroptosis?
Caspase independent cell death via FAS
What is DNA made of?
Eight histone proteins, H1 histone, wrapped into spiral called solenoid
What is heterochromatin?
Densely packed and looks dark and granular, DNA that is not being actively transcribed
What is euchromatin?
Looks clear or light, stretched out so gene transcription can take place, prominent in active cells like liver cells
What can a barr body in a neutrophil be used to identify?
Female genetic sex
Where is primary site of ribosomal production?
Nucleolus
What is lamin?
Protein of any class of fibrous proteins that provide structure and regulate transcription in a cell nucleus
What is laminin?
Any class of glycoproteins found in basement membranes
What is the interphase nucleus?
A nucleus of a non dividing cell
What is importance of uroplankin?
Protein makes the epithelium impermeable to water and toxic substances in urine
How is E coli able to attach to uroplankin and leads to UTI?
Penetrate into epithelium and attach to uroplankin
What is basement membrane made of?
Type 4 collagen, laminin, proteoglycans like nidogen and perlecan
What do integrins on basal surface of epithelial cells interact with?
Proteins on basement membrane
Why are laminins important?
Attach to integrins which attaches actin to basal lamina, important because it provides mechanical support and strength
What is basal lamina attached to underlying reticular fibers/reticular lamina by?
Anchoring fibrils which are type 7 collagen
Makes epithelium more stable
What is dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa?
Inherited blistering skin disease, occurs due to mutations of type 7 collagen gene
What do fibrillin microfibrils do?
Attach lamina densa to elastic fibers
What does mutation to fibrillin gene cause?
Marfan syndrome
What do projections of lamina densa do?
Interact with reticular lamina, an additional binding site with type 3 collagen
Reticular fibers are what type of collagen?
Type 3
What does mucosa consist of?
Basal lamina and epithelium
What does serosa consist of?
Mesothelium, basal lamina, and underlying connective tissue
What does microvilli contain at core?
Bundles of actin filaments, held together by crosslinking proteins Villin and fimbrin
What links actin filaments in microvilli to the plasma membrane?
Myosin 1 and calmodulin
What does the terminal web of the apical cytoplasm contain?
Actin, spectrin, Myosin II
What does contractile Myosin II do for microvilli?
Results in decreasing diameter of apex of intestinal absorptive cells, thereby the microvilli spread apart and the intermicrovillar space increases
Where can stereocilia be found?
Epididymis, Ductus deferens
What is internal filamentous structure of stereocilia?
Actin
What does cilia contain?
Microtubules, also called Axoneme, that are derived from centriole, basal body is a microtubule organizing center
What are microtubules made of?
Tubulin subunits
What is arrangement of cilia?
9+2 arrangement, peripheral microtubules are made of alpha and beta tubulin subunits (attached by Nexin)
Each doublet of cilia exhibits a pair of arms containing what?
Dyenin and ATPase
What does hydrolysis of ATP produce in cilia?
Sliding movement along the crossbridge between A microtubule and B microtubule of adjacent doublet, as a result the cilium beats
What is primary ciliary dyskinesia/Immotile cilia syndrome?
Autosomal recessive disease, abnormal ciliary motion and impaired muco-ciliary clearance, leading to persistent or recurrent respiratory injections, male infertility, sinusitis, otitis media
What is Kartagener syndrome?
When dyenin arms are absent in the cilia, leads to abnormal ciliary function, characterized by triad of situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, and bronchiectasis
What is primary cilia?
9+0 microtubule arrangement, non motile, bend by flow of fluid, function as signal receptors
What is nodal cilia?
9+0 microtubule arrangement, concentrated in area of primitive node, found in bilaminar embryonic disc, make rotational movements
What are basal folds usually oriented with?
Lots of mitochondria, provide energy for active transport