Lecture 9 - Exam Flashcards

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What is the purpose of proteins embedded in membranes?

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Water channels, ion channels, receptors and cell attachment

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What are the different types of membrane proteins?

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Transmembrane, integral, and peripheral

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What are the components of the transmembrane proteins?

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Extracellular domain, transmembrane spanning domain, and intracellular/cytosolic domain

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What are integral membrane proteins?

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Embedded in membrane, but do not span it

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What are peripheral membrane proteins?

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Proteins on either the intra- or extracellular domains that can interact with the other proteins

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What is an additional function of anchoring proteins that interact with membrane proteins?

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Cell signaling

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What are caveolae? And what do they play an important role in?

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Flask shaped invaginations on the cell surface - type of membrane raft - regulate expression of receptors and transporters by controlling how many are present on the surface of cells

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What is the order of membrane rafts?

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Ordered phase that float in sea of poorly ordered lipids

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What can membrane fluidity affect?

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Function and organization of rafts - spatially organize signaling molecules to promote kinetically favorable interactions necessary for signal transduction - can also conversely separate signaling molecules inhibiting interactions and dampening signaling responses

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What is the membrane permeable to? and what kind of transport do these molecules use?

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Gases and small uncharged polar molecules - passive diffusion

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What is the membrane impermeable to?

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Large, uncharged polar molecules, ions, charged polar molecules (hydrophilic) - need transporters

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What is the partition coefficient?

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K, ratio of solute concentration in oil: solute concentration in water - K>1 is more lipid soluble and K<1 is more water soluble

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What is LIpinskin’s Rule of Five?

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In the absence of a transporter, diffusion across a membrane can not have more than 5 hydrogen bond donors (N or O with one or more hydrogen atoms), not more than 10 hydrogen bond acceptors (N or O), molecular mass no greater than 500 daltons, and an octanol-water partition coefficient log P not greater than 5 - must be transported if it doesn’t meet these rules

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What are active transporters?

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ATPases that require energy to move things against a gradient

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What are secondary active transporters? And what is another name for it?

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Facilitated diffusion - Require another molecule to work and the other molecule is driven by an active transporter

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What are proteins that move phospholipids from one side of a bilayer to the other called? Does it require energy?

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Flippases, can require energy or be passive - but reduces half time for the movement significantly

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What are the classes of ATPase active transport pumps?

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P-class, F- and V- class, ABC superfamily

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What are P-class pumps? and where are they found?

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A type of active transporter - proton pumps - H+K+ pump in the stomach gives acidic environment when parietal cells produce HCl and pumps H in, H+ pump on PM of plants, fungi, bacteria and as Na+K+ pump on PM of euk, Ca2+ pump in PM of all euk cells and sarcoplasmic reticulum

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19
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What drug inhibits P class pumps?

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Esomeprazole - Nexium brand name for stomach (HK), oubain and digoxin (NaK)

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What is the ABC superfamily of active transporters? and where are they found? What is an example?

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Large family of pumps that move hydrophobic substrances - prevent xenobiotics from entering - normally move cholesterol and phospholipids out, inducible expression - found on bacterial and mammalian PM - p-glycoprotein is an example and is part of the multi-drug resistance family - MDR1

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What is the V class of active transporters? and where are they found?

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Only pump Hydrogen ions - found on vacuolar membranes, endosomal and lysosmal membranes, and PMs of osteoclasts and kidney tubules

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How does the sodium-potassium pump work?

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It brings two potassium ions in and three sodium ions out by undergoing phosphorylation conformational change to create an electrical potential that can be used to do work to move co-transporters

23
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What causes muscle contraction? And what blocks the channel?

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Depolarization of the sarcoplasmic reticulum activates the ryanodine channel to release Ca++ causing contraction - blocked by dantrolene - caffeine can reduce the threshold for calcium release

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What is an important function of a v-class proton pump? And what can this activity lead to?

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Maintains acidity inside of organelles (keeps pH inside lysosomes at 4.5 ) - trigger function to create a gradient that can drive co-transport (VMAT - vesicular monoamine transporter)

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What is Marble bone disease and Albers-Schonberg and what causes is?

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AKA Osteopetrosis - genetic disorder in which bones harden and become denser and is a result of a V-pump mutation or channelopathy

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What is ion trapping?

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V-class pumps are able to trap NTs inside of their vesicle through use of the VMAT

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What inhibits VMAT and where are VMATs found?

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VMAT2 found on synaptic vesicles inhibited by reserpine and tetrabenazine
VMAT1 found in adrenal medulla

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What does ABC superfamily stand for?

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ATPase Binding Cassette

29
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Which pumps cause issues with cancer treatment and those involved in the BBB and GI brush border?

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ABC superfamily - give multi drug resistance

30
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What drugs did MDR-1 become resistant to?

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Vincristine - Oncovin brand name - aka leurocristine - a mitotic inhibitor used in cancer chemotherapy

31
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What inhibits p-glycoprotein?

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Favinoids naringin and naringenin

32
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What are some characteristics of transport proteins?

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Faster than passive diffusion,partition coefficient K is irrelevant, it is saturable, it is specific and it is subject to inhibition by competition at binding site

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What is a uniporter and what is a common example?

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Transfer one molecule down a concentration gradient, glucose transporters

34
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What are symporters and antiporters?

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Secondary active transporters that move substances against concentration gradients by taking advantage of a molecule that is moving down its gradient - sodium dependent glucose transporters - VMAT can act as an antiporter

35
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What is Donnan Equilibrium?

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Cell contains more negative proteins and so ion distribution distributes accordingly

36
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How can ion channels be gated?

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Ligand, voltage, pH, oxygen tension

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What can enhance or inhibit the effects on ligand gated ion channels?

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Multiple regulator sites - not the same for everyone

38
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What can facilitate the transport of water through membranes and what is it regulated by?

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Aquaporins - prevent ions from crossing - regulated by ADH production form pituitary

39
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What is tonicity?

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Amount of solute in the extracellular space

40
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What is hypotonic and hypertonic?

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Hypotonic - less solute outside than inside
Hypertonic - more solute outside than in
Moves from low to high

41
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What is oncotic pressure?

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AKA colloid osmotic pressure - A form of osmotic pressure exerted by proteins (albumin) in a blood vessel’s plasma that tends to pull water into the circulatory system

42
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Do transport proteins exist by themselves?

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No - they must be coupled with other transporters to ensure pH, osmotic, oncotic, concentration and electrochemical gradients

43
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How do cell’s maintain pH gradient?

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Different antiporters that neutralize to maintain proper pH
Na/H antiporter becomes more active to pump more H ions out if pH becomes too acidic
Bicarb/Cl antiporter does as well

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How does the NaK pump create action potential? And what is the rate of change dependent on?

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Sodium channels open and sodium enters cell –> Potassium channels open and potassium begins to leave cell (raising potential) –> Sodium channels close –> Rest of potassium leaves cell (lowering potential and creating overshot) –> Potassium channels close and excess potassium diffuses away - dependent upon density of channels

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What are graded potentials?

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Depolarizations that do not reach adequate voltage change or threshold potential to activate voltage gater chanels