LM1 Flashcards
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Describe the transmembrane receptor involved in Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling
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- The extracellular portion has signal-binding site
- The portion embedded in the membrane is comprised of α-helices
- The intracellular portion is loaded with tyrosine molecules
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Describe the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Pathway
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- Growth factor (such as epidermal growth factor) binds each monomer causing them to come together as a dimer
- Once the dimer forms, they autophosphorylate
- The activated tyrosine kinase receptor then phosphorylates relay proteins
- Relay proteins move throughout the cell to elicit a cellular response
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Describe the energy input and output for receptor tyrosine-kinase activation
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- The 6 activated tyrosine-kinase regions use 6 ATP to phosphorylate to become a fully activated receptor tyrosine-kinase
- This yields 6 ADP
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What are the 2 families of RTKs?
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- ErbB
* Insulin-IGF
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Describe the ErbB Family of RTKs
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*Receptor monomers must dimerize before autophosphorylation can happen
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Describe the IGF-1 Receptor of the Insulin-IGF RTK family
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- Contains α and ß subunits which are bound together via disulfide bonds making it already a dimer
- The α subunit is the majority of the extracellular portion of the receptor and contains the ligand binding domain
- The ß subunit is some extracellular, but contains the membrane-bound α-helical portion as well as the cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase domain
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Describe how the Insulin-IGF RTK family pathway works
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- When the hormone binds the extracellular segment of the receptor, it cross-phosphorylates from P1->P2->P3
- Once phosphorylation completes, it becomes an active tyrosine kinase and phosphorylates other proteins to elicit a cellular repsonse
- Autophosphorylation occurs immediately upon hormone binding
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Describe the Classical Testosterone Signaling Pathway
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- T passes through the plasma membrane via diffusion
- T binds to receptor in cytoplasm activating it
- The hormone-receptor complex moves into the nucleus and binds to specific genes
- The bound protein stimulates transcription of the gene into mRNA
- The mRNA is edited and exits the nucleus to be used as a template for new proteins via translation
- The new proteins elicit a cellular response
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Describe Pathway 1 of the Classical Estradiol Signaling Pathway
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- E2 diffuses through the plasma membrane and enters the cytoplasm to bind its receptors
- The E2 receptors dimerize to enter the nucleus
- The E2 receptors bind estrogen-response elements (ERE) in the nucleus or other gene promoters to increase the rate of gene expression
- This is a long term response of hours-days
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Describe the 2nd E2 Signaling Pathway
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- E2 binds receptors presen on the plasma membrane
- The hormone-receptor complex stimulate activation of intermediary proteins
- Intermediary proteins signal other 2nd messengers w/in the cytoplasm resulting in enzyme phosphorylation or gene expression
- This can also affect RTKs and ion channels
- This is a short-term cellular response of minutes-hours
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Describe the 3rd E2 signaling pathway
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- E2 diffuses into cytoplasm
- E2 directly acts to block molecules that induce cell stress
- This is an immediate effect within minutes
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Describe the 4th E2 signaling pathway
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- Other agents such as GFs or dopamine bind their own receptors
- Protein kinase cascades occur resulting in phosphorylation of ER (estrogen receptors)
- The activate ERs dimerize and bind DNA promoters
- This affects gene expression
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Name the hormone
- Source: ovary, placenta, or emrbyo
- Function: promotes exual behavior, stimulates secondary sex characteristics, growth of reproductive tract, uterine contractions, and mammary gland duct growth, controls gonadotropin release, stimulates calcium uptake in bones, has anabolic effects
- Class: steroid
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Estrogens (E)
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Name the hormone
- Source: ovary, placenta
- Function: acts synergistically with estrogen in promoting estrous behavior and preparing reproductive tract for implantation
- Class: steroid
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Progesterone (P)
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Name the hormone
- Source: Posterior pituitary
- Function: stimulates uterine contractions, parturition, sperm and egg transport, facilitates milk ejection, possible leutolytic function
- Class: neuropeptide
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Oxytocin (OT)
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Name the hormone
- Source: ovary, testis
- Function: inhibit and stimulate FSH
- Class: Glycoprotein
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Inhibin-activin
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Name the hormone
- Source: Anterior pituitary
- Function: Regulating metabolism, provides background for supportive reproductive function
- Class: Glycoprotein
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Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH)
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Name the hormone
- Source: Anterior pituitary
- Function: Regulation of metabolism and parturition
- Class: Glycoprotein
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Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
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Name the hormone
- Source: Anterior pituitary
- Function: Regulation of metabolism
- Class: Protein
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Growth Hormone (GH)
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Name the hormone
- Source: Anterior pituitary
- Function: Promotes lactation, stimulates corpus luteum function and progesterone secretion in some species, promotes maternal behavior, promotes tissue and bone growth
- Class: protein
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Prolactin (PRL)
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Name the hormone
- Source: Anterior pituitary
- Function: Stimulates ovulation, corpus luteum function: stimulates secretion of progesterone, estrogen and androgen
- Class: Glycoprotein
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Leutenizing Hormone (LH)
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Name the hormone
- Source: Anterior pituitary
- Function: Stimulates follicular growth, spermatogenesis, estrogen secretion
- Class: Glycoprotein
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Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH)
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Name the hormone
- Source: Hypothalamus
- Function: stimulates the release of ACTH
- Class: Neruopeptide
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Corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH)
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Name the hormone
- Source: Hypothalamus
- Function: Stimualtes release of thyroid-stimulating hormone and prolactin
- Class:Neruopeptide
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Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH)
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Name the hormone
* Source: Hypothalamus
* Function: inhibits release of growth hormone
* Class:Neuropeptide
Growth hormone inhibiting hormone (GHLH) a.k.a. Somatostatin
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Name the hormone
* Source: Hypothalamus
* Function: Stimulates release of growth hormone
* Class :Neuropeptide
Growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH)
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Name the hormone
* Source: Hypothalamus
* Function: Stimulates release of FSH and LH from anterior pituitary
* Class: Neuropeptide
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) a.k.a. Leutinizing hormone releasing hormone (LH-RH)
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Name the hormone
* Source: Posterior pituitary
* Function: vasoconstrictor, helps retain water
* Class: peptide
Vasopressin a.k.a. Anti-Diruetic hormone (ADH)
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Name the hormone
* Source: Hypothalamus
* Function: inhibits release of prolactin
* Class: Neuropeptide, biogenic amine
Prolactin inhibiting factor (PIF) a.k.a. Dopamine
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Name the hormone
* Source: Testis
* Function: develops and maintains accessory sex glands, stimulates secondary sexual characteristics, sexual behavior, and spermatogenesis, has anabolic effects
* Class: steroid
Androgens
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Name the hormone
* Source: Uterus
* Function: causes uterine contractions and is leutolytic
* Class: Prostaglandin
Prostaglandin F2α
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Name the hormone
* Source: Ovary, uterus, embryonic membranes
* Function: uterine contractions, leutolytic, stimulates secretion of progesterone from CL
* Class: prostaglandin
Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2)
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Name the hormone
* Source: Uterus
* Function: transfers iron from maternal system to developing embryo during gestation
* Class: glycoprotein
Uteroferrin
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Name the hormone
* Source: placenta
* Function: LH activity, maintains corpus luteum of pregnancy in primates
* Class: Glycoprotein
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)
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Name the hormone
* Source: Placenta
* Function: dilates cervix and causes joint relaxation
* Class: protein
Relaxin
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Name the hormone
* Source: embryo
* Function: maternal recognition of pregnancy in ruminants
* Class:interferon
Interferon tau
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Name the growth factor
* Stimulates regrowth of epithelium following disruption of ovarian surface at ovulation
* Human myometrial cells respond to this factor by stimulation of their proliferation: their activites are additive when used in combination and synergistically enhanced by progesterone
* Class: Protein
Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)
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Name the growth factor
* Stimulates proliferation of various cell types required with blastocyst implantation and embryonic development
* Class: Protein
Fibroblast growth factor (FGF)
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Name the growth factor
* Regulates steroidogenesis in granulosa cells in large ovarian follicles via aromatase activity
* Class: Protein
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)
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Name the growth factor
* Removal of fetus causes elevated levels of this growth factor but can be reversed by Androgens and Estrogen
* The fetus, via secretion of estrogen precursors, regulates placental and maternal production of this growth factor during pregnancy
Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1)
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What hormone initiates granulosa cell's responsiveness to IGF-1 during follicular development
Estrogen
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Describe the flow through the hypothlamus-Hypohyseal portal system using GnRH and LH as examples
* GnRH is secreted by hypothlamic nerve cells exiting at the axons
* GnRH enters the Median Eminence
* Hypohyseal portal vessels carry GnRH to the capillary plexus of the AP
* GnRH exits the vessels and binds to gonadotropes inducing LH secretion
* LH leaves the AP via cavernous sinus veins into general circulation
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What is the hypophysis?
Both anterior and posterior pituitary
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Where is the hypolthalamus located? What type of tissue is it comprised of?
* 3rd ventricle at the base of the brain
| * Neural tissue
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What type of tissue is the anterior pituitary comprised of?
Secretory tissue
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Where is the nerupophysis located? What type of tissue is it comprised of?
* directly connected to hypothalamus
| * comprised of neural tissue
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Describe the location of the Magnacellular neruons including axon termination
* 2 main locations: paraventricular nuclei cells and supraoptic nuclei cell within the hypothalamus
* Axons extend down hypohyseal nerve tract and terminate within the neurpohysis
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How is the neuropophysis vascularized?
carotid artery
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Describe the flow of Oxytocin (OT) as a neruopophyseal hormone beginning with synthesis
* OT is synthesized in paraventricular cells
* 9 OT are produced with each neurophysin
* OT travels down hypophyseal nerve tract where it is cleaved from neurophysin
* OT enters neuropophysis and is stimulated to be released via veins into general circulation
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Describe the neuro-endocrine reflex arc of OT initiated by a suckling calf
* Suckling sends a nerve imulse to the spinal cord and then the impulse reaches the brain
* Impulse causes supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei to secrete OT
* OT is released from neuropophysis, enters general circulation, and reaches the mammary gland
* OT binds to receptors on myoepithelial cells around alveoli
* Myoepithelial cells contract causing milk let down
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How is the hypothalamus connected to the posterior and anterior pituitary?
posterior: directly
anterior: indirectly via hypohyseal portal plexus
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Name the type of feedback mechanism
* Gonadal steroids are secreted by the gonads and enter the bloodstream
* They enter the hypothalamus to regulate GnRH secretion
* They can also directly affect the anterior pituitary and LH and FSH secretion
Long-loop feedback
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Name the type of feedback mechanism
* Secretory products exit the AP and enter circulation
* Then they have a feedback effect on hypothalamus
* Ex: ACTH is secreted from anterior pituitary and enters general circulation to act as an endocrine hormone to feedback on CRH secretion on the hypothlamus
* Ex: TSH feedback on hypothalamus for TRH
Short-loop feedback
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Name the type of feedback mechanism
* Dominant follicle secretes estradiol to have a paracrine feedback effect on adjacent secondary follicles
* Gonadal steroids, gonadal proteins (inhibin/activin), and growth factors use this mechanism as well
ultra-short loop feedback
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What 2 hormones use the Adenylate cyclase-protein kinase A (PKA) system?
FSH and LH
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Describe the general PKA system
* LH/FSH bind to its specific receptor that's coupled with adenylate cycles on the cell membrane
* Adenylate cyclase converts ATP to cAMP
* cAMP is 2nd messenger and interacts and activates PKA in the cytoplasm
* PKA has direct effects on enzymes in cytoplasm via phosphorylation and can influence gene transcription
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How is the PKA system regulated
Phosphodiesterases (PDEs) take free cAMP and converti it to inactive 5' AMP
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Describe activation of the PKA holoenzyme
* PKA has 2 catalytic subunits and 2 regulatory subunits
* Each regulatory subunit has 2 cAMP binding sites so it can bind a total of 4 cAMP
* Once cAMP binds, the catalytic subunits unbind and become active kinases
* These kinases then phosphorylate other proteins within the cytoplasm
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Describe the general role of G-Proteins as intracellular couplers
* Hormone binds to G-protein coupled receptor on the plasma membrane
* Activated G-protein can transit within the membrane to interact with an enzyme to activate it and create a cellular response
* The hormone dissociates from its receptor so it becomes inactive
* G-proteins aren't destroyed in this process, but shuffle back and forth between inactivated receptors and enzymes
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Describe G-protein cycling of activation and inactivation
* Inactive G-protein has GDP bound to the α-subunit and the ß and ¥ subunits are still together
* When hormone binds, GTP replaces GDP to activate the G-protein
* The GTP-α separate from the ߥ so it can stimulate a protein causing GTP to loose a phosphate and return to GDP
* The αߥ subunits return together in a resting state
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Describe how G-proteins are activated by magnesium
* LH receptors are transmembrane receptors
* Carbohydrates on the extracellular component aid in hormone binding
* When LH binds, the tail of tis receptor incorporates Mg2+
* This causes activation of the G-protein
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What are the 3 levels that cells can control the 2nd messenger PKA system?
* Level of hormone-receptor binding
* Level of G-proteins (inhibitory vs stimulatory)
* Level of cytoplasm (phosphodiesterases on cAMP)
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Describe how the PKA system can affect gene expression
* Active catalytic subunits enter the nucleus and interacts with proteins to stimulate transcription/gene expression
* Catalytic subunits phosphorylate cAMP response element binding protein (CREB)
* CREB interacts with DNA inducing accumulation of transcription factors resulting in gene transcription and mRNA production
* This causes a cellular response
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What hormone uses the 2nd messenger Ca2+-Calmodulin system?
LH for signal transduction
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What type of binding does Ca2+-Calmodulin use?
Cooperative (allosteric)
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Describe the general Ca2+-Calmodulin system
* 2 Ca2+ bind to Calmodulin (2 at the top and 2 at the bottome)
* The complex is then activated and has a conformational change
* The complex interacts with target proteins by wrapping around and phosphorylating the target protein
* This induces a cellular response
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Describe the 2 modes of action for Ca2+-Calmodulin
* 1: Ca2+-Calmodulin complex is free in cytosol and interacts with the target protein (phosphodiesterase) to activate
* 2: Calmodulin is part of an inactive target protein (phosphorylase kinase) and interaction with the 4 Ca2+ ions causes activation of the target protein
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What are the 5 major cellular targets Ca2+-Calmodulin can affect?
* Enzymes
* Receptors/ion exchanges
* Gap junctions
* Cell shape
* Metabolic effects
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What are the 2 major enzymes Ca2+-Calmodulin can affect?
* G-protein subunits
| * Adenylate cyclase
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What are the 2 major receptors/ion exchangers Ca2+-Calmodulin can affect
* EGF receptors
| * Na+/K+-Ca2+ exchanger
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How does Ca2+-Calmodulin affect gap junctions?
Affects intracellular communication
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How does Ca2+-Calmodulin affect cell shape?
The complex can bind cytoskeletal proteins
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How does Ca2+-Calmodulin affect metabolic effects?
* Mitochondrial activity
* ER activity
* Gene transcription and other activities within the nucleus
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What does PI stand for?
Phosphptidylinositol
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What does PIP stand for?
Phosphotidylinositol-4-phosphate
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What does PIP2 stand for?
Phosphotidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate
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What does IP3 stand for?
inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate
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What hormones use the phosphatidyinositol 2nd messenger pathway
LH, OT and PGF
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What does DAG stand for?
Diacylglycerol
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Describe pathway 1 of the phosphatidyl inositol 2nd messenger pathway which occurs in the cytoplasm
* Hormone binds to its receptor, activating phospholipase C
* Phospholipase C cleaves PIP2 into IP3 and DAG
* IP3 interacts with smooth ER which contains an IP3 sensitive Ca2+ channels to release Ca2+
* The release of Ca2+ activates calmodulin causing an increase of protein phosphorylation
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Describe pathway 2 of the phosphatidylinositol 2nd messenger pathway that occurs in the membrane
* LH/PGF binds to its receptor and activates phospholipase C
* Phospholipase C cleaves PIP2 into IP3 and DAG
* DAG activates protein kinase C
* PKC then phosphorylates target protein
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Describe activation of the Type 1 subtype of PKC
* Hormone binds, activating phospholipase C which cleaves PIP2 into IP3 and DAG
* IP3 interacts with IP3 sensitive Ca2+ channels, releasing Ca2+ into cytoplasm
* Ca2+ causes preliminary activation of PKC
* DAG interacts with Ca2+-activated PKC to complete activation
* Fully activated PKC can phosphorylate subsrates
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Describe activation of type 2 subtype of PKC
* Hormone binds, activating phospholipase C which cleaves PIP2 into IP3 and DAG
* DAG interacts directly with PKC causing a Ca2+ membrane channel to open
* Ca2+ enters cytoplasm leading to a cellular response
* GTP-activated G-protein complex has a stimulatory αsubunit which activates Phospholipase C
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Describe the 3rd pathway of the phosphatidyinositol 2nd messenger pathway
* OT binds its receptor, activating phospholipase C which cleaves PIP2 into IP3 and DAG
* DAG is the precursor for Arachondonic acid
* Arachodonic acid is a precursor for prostoglandins
* Results in formation of prostaglandins
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Describe how the 3rd pathway of the phosphatidyl inositol 2nd messenger pathway is important for CL destruction
* In ruminants, increase of PGF2α is the main cause of CL destruction
* OT binds receptors within the uterine endometrium and proceeds with system
* PGF2α is released from the uterus and travels via counter-current exchange to ovary
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Describe how the 3rd pathway of the phosphotidylinositol 2nd messenger pathway is important for parturition
* OT interacts with receptors within the uterine endometrium inducing phospholipase C activity and DAG generation
* DAG is metabolised into PGF2α which works on uterine endometrium and myometirum to stimulate contractions for parturition
