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Hormone Signaing Pathways Flashcards

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Endocrine signaling

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H released into bloodstream to travel a long distance to reach its target.

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Paracrine signaling

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H released to act on a neighboring cell.

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Autocrine signaling

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H acts on the same cell that secreted it.

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Juxtacrine signaling

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H stays attached to secreting cell and binds to a receptor on an adjacent target cell.

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How do hydrophilic Hs signal?

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Bind to receptor on CM and induce a second messenger system.

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What receptors can hydrophilic Hs use?

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GPCRs

RTKs

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Lipophilic Hs signal how?

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They cross the CM to act as a transcription factor.

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8
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What receptors do lipophilic Hs bind?

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Cytoplasmic receptors

Nuclear receptors

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9
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What is the hormone response element (HRE)?

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The DNA sequence that the hormone-receptor complex (from the cytoplasm) binds to in the nucleus.

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10
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What are nuclear receptors bound to?

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DNA directly

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What kind of half-lives do hydrophilic meds have?

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Very short (sec to min). Given at time of need (ex: Epi).

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What kind of half-life do lipophilic meds have?

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Long half-life (hours to days). Can be taken daily (birth control).

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Hoe does an inactive G protein become active? Which enzyme facilitates this?

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It must exchange its GDP for GTP. GEF causes this transaction.

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How does the active GTP become inactivated?

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There is intrinsic GTPase activity that hydrolysis GTP back into GDP.

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What is the function of GTPase-activating protein (GAP)?

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It accelerates the activity of GTPase, causing an increase in the rate of hydrolysis of GTP to GDP.

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What occurs with the alpha, beta and gamma subunits once GTP is active?

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Beta and gamma subunits remain intact and dissociate, leaving alpha attached to GTP.

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17
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How does the Gs pathway function?

What stops the cascade?

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GTP activates AC —> cAMP —> active PKA —> phosphorylates target.
CAMP is acted on by PDE.

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18
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How does the Gi pathway work?

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GTP inhibits AC and cAMP is not produced.

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How does Gt pathway work?

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Light causes GTP to act on cGMP PDE to convert cGMP to 5’-GMP.

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20
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How does Gq pathway work?

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GTP binds PLC which increases intracellular Ca levels.

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21
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When epi binds to a beta adrenergic receptor, what happens? What signaling pathway?

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Gs.
Relaxation on bronchial SM and intestinal SM.
Contraction of heart.
Increased mobilization of fuels.

22
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What pathway does His target? What is the outcome?

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Gs.

Bronchoconstriction and allergies.

23
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What pathway does DA use? What is the outcome?

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Gi.

Increased HR.

24
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What pathway does ACh use? What is the outcome?

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Gq.

Brochoconstriction and stimulation of salivary glands.

25
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What is the anatomy of the RTK receptor?

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Has an extra cellular domain that binds the ligand, a-helical transmembrane domain and an intracellular domain w/ TK activity

26
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How does the RTK system work?

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Ligand binds —> dimerization.
Dimerized receptor binds tyrosine.
Docking proteins recognize the RTK and trigger either a RAS-dependent or RAS-independent pathway.

27
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What is the primary structure of insulin?

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A chain and a B chain are linked by 2 disulfide bridges.
The A chain has its own disulfide bridge.
21 AAs in the A chain and 30 AAs in the B chain.

28
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What is the active form of insulin?

What is the inactive form?

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Active - hexamer

Inactive - monomer

29
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How is insulin synthesized?

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Preproinsulin mRNA —> preproinsulin protein —> translocated to ER lumen —> cleaved to form proinsulin —> folded in golgi —> released with C peptide.

30
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2 phases of insulin release

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  1. Rapid, but transient release. Comes from a limited pool of granules (<5%) known as the readily releasable pool.
  2. Second phase comes from the reserve pool (>95%). Granules here must undergo mobilization.
31
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RAS-dependent insulin signaling (5))

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Insulin binds to alpha subunit of insulin receptor (an RTK).
Autophosporylation of tyrosine residues in the beta subunit.
Insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) recognizes the phosphotyrosine residues.
GRB-2 recognizes IRS-1 and triggers the RAS and MAP kinase pathway.
Causes increased transcription of glucokinase.
Glucokinase phosphorylates glucose in the first step of glycolysis.

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RAS-independent insulin signaling (5)

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Insulin bind to RTK.
Autophosphorylation.
IRS-1 recognizes the RTK and is phosphorylated.
PI3kinase is recruited by IRS-1.
PIP2 and PIP3 are activated and stimulate recruitment of protein kinase B (PKB).
PKB stimulates glucose uptake/storage.

33
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What is the role of PKB in the movement of GLUT 4?

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It moves GLUT4 from cytoplasm to PM of muscle and adipose to allow Glc to enter.

34
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How does PKB promote glycogen synthesis?

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It inhibits glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3).

35
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How is insulin signaling terminated?

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The insulin receptor is internalized and degraded or recycled.

36
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What is insulin resistance?

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A down regulation of the insulin receptor.

37
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What is the quantifiable parameter of insulin resistance?

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Measure the amount of glucose cleared from the blood in response to a fixed dose of insulin.

38
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Severe insulin resistance can be caused by?

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Defects in insulin binding domain on extra cellular side or variations of intracellular domains.

39
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Phosphorylation of which aa instead of tyrosine in the IR can inhibit activation and signaling?

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Serine

40
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What are orphan receptors?

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Nuclear receptors discovered by DNA sequencing. Ligands are unknown.

41
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3 major domains of nuclear receptors

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Ligand binding domain (LBD)
Activation function 1 domain (AF1) (aka transcription activating domain)
DNA binding domain

42
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What do DBDs bind?

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HRE

43
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Types of estrogen receptors (2)

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ERa

ERbeta

44
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Where is ER alpha expressed most?

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Female reproductive tract and mammary gland, hypothalamus, endothelium and vascular sm

45
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Where is ER-beta mostly expressed?

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Ovaries and prostate

46
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Which ER is believed to be predominant in growth regulation?

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ER-alpha

47
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What is the MOA of ER?

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Estrogen binds and promotes his tone acetyl transferase (HAT) which activates transcription.

48
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MOA of tamoxifen

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Tamoxifen is metabolized by the liver to 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen —> promotes histone deacetylase activity (HDAC) —> inhibits transcription.

49
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What is the general transcription apparatus (GTA) and what is its role in the ER and tamoxifen?

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It enhances transcription.

ER recruits it, and tamoxifen tries to inhibit it.

50
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ER has both:

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Genomic and non-genomic effects (in cytoplasm and PM).

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