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Lecture 8 - Exam Flashcards

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What techniques were/are used to determine which proteins moved from organelle to organelle in the secretory pathway?

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Pulse-chase labeling experiments, autoradiography, fluorescent microscopy of cells with GFP membrane tag (modern)

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Are proteins released into the cytosol?

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No, they are always associated with membrane-bound intermediates

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How long does mammalian cell vesicle-mediated transport take from ER to PM?

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30-60 min

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What is VSVG and what is it used for?

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Vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein labeled with GFP is used to monitor protein transport in the secretory pathway

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What is restrictive temperature VSVG?

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A type of mutant at 40 degree C VSVG-GFP is retained in the ER

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What is permissive temperature VSVG?

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A type of mutant at 32 degree C VSVG-GFP is released for transport to golgi and plasma membrane

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How can transport of a membrane glycoprotein from ER to golgi be assayed?

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Sensitivity to cleavage by endoglycosidase D - can be run on SDS-PAGE

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What do many secretory proteins leaving the ER have as side chains? And what cleaves them and what does it produce?

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One or more copies of N-linked oligosaccharides (carbohydrates) -
Mannose N-acetyl glucosamine [Man8(GlcNAc)2] - cleaved by glycosidases on golgi cisternae that trim to [Man5(GlcNAc)2]

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What identified the five stages in the secretory pathway?

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Phenotypes of yeast sec mutants - organization and components is similar in all euk - temperature sensitive sec mutants are defective for secretion of proteins at non-permissive termperatures - 5 classes A-E showed sites where newly synthesized proteins accumulate when sec mutants are moved from permissive to non-permissive temperatures

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What are the 5 stages in the secretory pathway?

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Cytosol –> rough ER –> ER-Golgi transport vesicles –> golgi –> secretory vesicles

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What demonstrates protein transport from one golgi cisternae to another? And how does it happen?

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Cell-free assay - isolated golgi from VSV wildtype and mutant cells - WT contains N-acetylglucosamine transferase I enzyme that transfers to a mannose residue and mutant does not, if you mix the two extracts together the WT enzyme is still capable of transfering this n-acetyle glucosamine to the mutant by moving across cisternae

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What initiates budding in the secretory pathway?

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GTP-binding proteins

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What gives the curvature of a vesicle bud in the secretory pathway?

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Coat proteins - drive formation of structure

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What interaction allows for secretory pathway vesicle bud fusion?

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v-SNARE proteins on donor membrane that undergo a conformational change to interact with t-SNARE proteins

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What do membrane cargo proteins do in secretory vesicles?

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They have cytosolic sequences that determine what kind of coat should be made

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What do membrane cargo-receptor proteins do in secretory vesicles?

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Interact with soluble cargo proteins needed for vesicle formation

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What is the most well known and widely distributed coat protein for vesicles

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Clathrin and AP adapter protein complexes

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What is the main GTPase associated with budding?

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ARF

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What are the different vesicle types and associated GTPase and coat proteins ?

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COPII - Sar1, uses coat proteins sec
COPI - ARF, uses coatomers as coat proteins
Clathrin - ARF, uses APs and clathrin as coat proteins

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Explain assembly and disassembly of COPII coats

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Sec12 (GEF for Sar1) causes GDP-GTP exchange undergoing conformational change to bind to ER membrane, Sar1-GTP polymerizes Sec23/Sec24 COPII subunits to lead to vesicle budding, COPII vesicles are released, GTP hydrolyzed to GDP, COPII coat dissassembles

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What prevents coats from not disassembling?

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If GTP can not be hydrolyzed - using something like GTP-gamma-S - causes accumulation of coated vesicles

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How do vesicles know where to go?

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Cargo protein targeting sequences make specific contacts with coat proteins
Luminal sorting signals - necessary sorting signal since soluble proteins can not contact coat directly (KDEL and M6P are examples)
Cytoplasmic sorting signmals - are specific sequences in cytosolic portion of membrane cargo proteins that interact with coat (*KKXX, NPXY, LL are examples)

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What is a model pathway for docking and fusion of transport vesicles?

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Rab-GTP protein bound to secretory vesicle by lipid anchor binds effector protein on PM allowing docking –> v-SNARE (VAMP) interacts with t-SNARE (syntaxin, SNAP-25) to form stable complex to hold vesicle close to target membrane –> two membranes undergo fusion –> NSF and alpha-SNAP bind to SNARE complex and NSF (ATPase) hydrolyzes ATP to ADSP and drives dissociation of SNARE comples, Rab-GTP is hydrolyzed and dissociates from Rab effector

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What type of vesicles mediate anterograde transport from ER to golgi?

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What type of vesicles mediate retrograde transport from golgi to ER?
COPI
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What type of vesicles mediate transport to endosomes, melanosomes, lysosomes or platelet vesicles?
Clatherins
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How can ER proteins that mistakenly go to the golgi be retrieved?
Proteins have KDEL sorting sequence that binds KDEL receptor in golgi in COPII and COPI vesicles and returns them to the ER - pH sensitive where golgi has a lower pH giving higher binding affinity and ER has higher pH which induces peptide release
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What processing of N-linked oligosaccharide chains on glycoproteins within cis cisternae of goli occurs?
Removal of 3 mannose residues
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What processing of N-linked oligosaccharide chains on glycoproteins within medial cisternae of goli occurs?
N-acetylglucosamine residue is added to 5 mannose (from cis) 2 more mannose are removed Two more N-acettylgucosamine residues added Fucose residue added
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What processing of N-linked oligosaccharide chains on glycoproteins within trans cisternae of goli occurs?
Three galactose residue added | Linkage of N-acetylneuraminic acid residue to each galactose residue
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What types of enzyme are involved in modifying the N-linked carbohydrates attached to secretory proteins?
Glycosidases and glycosyltransferases
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What is the process of membrane proteins advancing through the golgi complex called? and how can it be visualized?
Cisternal maturation by anterograde transport - visualized by fluorescent tagging in living yeast cells
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Where can proteins go after being in the trans-golgi network?
Retrograde transport via COPI vesicles if mistakenly moved Moved to endosomes and lysosomes by clathrin and AP vesicles Cell surface - coat not characterized
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What is the structure of clathrin coats?
``` Triskelion structure with 3 heavy chains and light chains with two layers Adapter protein (AP) complexes and clathrin molecules (form the triskelion) ```
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What is the name of the GTPase responsible for pinching off clathrin/AP coated vesicles?
Dynamin
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What targets the transport of lysosomal enzymes in vesicles to endosomes? and where is it generated?
Mannose 6-phosphate (M6P) - a sorting signal that directs lysosomal enzymes for trans-golgi to late endosomes when they are attempted to be brought to PM - generated in cis-golgi but receptor sits on PM
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Where can lysosomal enzymes by trafficked?
Can be secreted to cell surface but recognized by M6P to be brough to endosome and be brough back to lysosome Can be brought right to endosomes to be transported to lysosome
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What is the only apical sorting signal identified so far?
GPI-anchor
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How do proteins know whether to go to the apical or basolateral side and what are some examples of proteins that have been tested in experiments?
Sorting signals - basolateral sorting signals have been identified much easier - VSVG glycoprotein always goes to basolateral, but influenza virus always goes to apical side
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What is the process called when proteins are moved from basolateral to apical sides?
Transcytosis - proteins are endocytosed and moved laterally across cell
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Where do all PM proteins go?
Basolateral
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What is the most well document receptor-mediated endocytosis?
Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) -
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What is receptor-mediated endocytosis (RME)?
When a specific receptor on the cell surface binds tightly to an extracellular macromolecular ligand that reconizes it --> PM regions containing receptor complex buds inward and pinches off becoming transport vesicle --> occurs via clathrin/AP2 vesicles
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What is added to visualize transport/vesicles in electron micrographs?
Gold or ferritin
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What is the structure of LDL?
Amphipathic structure with hydrophilic outer surface and hydrophobic inner surface, apolar core made up of cholesterol with polar surface made up of phopholipids and wrapped by apolipoprotein B (ApoB)
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What is the structure of the LDL receptor?
It is a glycoprotein with transmembrane segment, with the exoplasmic domain containing the LDL-binding domain (7 Cys repeats) - cytosolic domain contains LDLR sorting signal to incorporate receptor-ligand complex into endocytic vesicles
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What is the general endocytic pathway for internalizing LDL?
LDL particle binds LDL receptor at ApoB with Cys 4 and 5 in ligand binding arm and at pH 7 and vesicle envaginates --> Clathrin/AP2 vesicle uncoats forming early endosome with low pH 5 causing dissociation of receptor-ligand complexes when His residue in beta propeller domain becomes positively charged and binds the ligand binding arm --> late endosome recycles LDL receptor and delivers cholesterol, AA and FAs to lysosome
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What is transferrin? and what is it's cycle
A major glycoprotein in blood that transports iron to all tissue cells - apotransferrin (iron free form) binds two iron ions tights to form ferrotransferrin --> transferrin receptor binds ferrotransferrin at neutral pH --> complex is endocytosed and in the late endosome at pH 5 iron ions dissociate and arm reduced to Fe2+ from Fe3+ --> the apotransferrin returns to the cell surface and is secrets where it dissociates from receptor at neutral pH
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How are PM proteins delived to lysosomal interior?
Endocytosed proteins are carried by early endosomes carrying lysosomal enzymes from trans-golgi and fuse with late endosomes transferring cargo --> proteins to be degraded are incorporated into vesicles that bud inside late endosome forming multivesicular endosome --> this fuses with lysosome and releases internal vesicals and are degraded --> those not to be degraded are not incorporated into these vesicles and delivered to lysosomal membranes
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How are multivesicular endosomes formed?
Ubiquitin tags proteins for entry --> Hrs (a Ub-tagged peripheral membrane protein) recruits endosomal sorting complexes required for transport ESCRT --> ESCRT drive vesicle budding directed into interior of endosome and load Ub-proteins into buds ---> ESCTR pinches off vesicle and ATPase Vps4 disassembles complex
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How does HIV bud from the PM?
HIV is an enveloped retrovirus that buds from the PM of infected cells in a process driven by Gag protein and ESCRT and Vps4 ATPase - Gag polymerize spherical shell generating structure similar to vesicle bud

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