Midterm 1 Vocab Flashcards

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Yeast Characteristics

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-genome around 6000 genes
-32 linear chromosomes
-facultative aerobe
-around 650 species
unicellular
haploid and diploid life cycle phases

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Yeast haploid life cycle

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  • mother cell starts to bud
  • bud grows and splits off
  • bud scar left behind
  • after many divisions, cell covered in bud scars and can no longer divide
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Diploid formation

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  • 2 yeast cells of opposite mating types schmoo together
  • cells contact and cell walls dissolve
  • plasmogamy
  • nuclei fuse (karyogamy)
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4
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thallus

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term for bodies of fungi or lichen

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homothallic

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sexual reproduction with a single thallus; mates with itself

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heterothallic

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sexual reproduction with two different thalli

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7
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positive selection

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selects for cells with WT gene copy

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Determining Mating type: testing for secreted pheromones

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  • seed plate with sensitive strain of yeast
  • mating factor diffuses from filter paper patch of an unknown mating type
  • lawn grows
  • dark “halo” around sensitive cells of the opposite mating type that are stopped in G1
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Determining mating type: crossing with known types

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  • agar streaked with yeast cells on rich media w/ a selectable marker
  • test crosses with strains of known mating types
  • incubate
  • replica plate onto media lacking uracil and lysine
  • use phenotype to determine query strain
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Isolating haploids

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  • collect asci
  • use enzymes to open asci and release the ascospores
  • separate ascospores onto agar
  • replica plate onto media lacking lysine and onto media lacking uracil
  • use phenotypes to score tetrad
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tetratype (T)

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both parental and recombinant genotypes present

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parental ditype (PD)

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all genotypes the same as parents

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nonparental ditype (NPD)

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all genotypes different from parents

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uniparental inheritance

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inherited from a single parent (ex. mitochondria)

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pyruvate dehydrogenase

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makes acetyl coA

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16
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PDH kinase

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adds deactivating phosphate to PDH to regulate

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17
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PDH kinase inhibitors

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NAD+, ADP, SH-coA

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18
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PDH kinase activators

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NADH, acetyl coA

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PDH phosphatase

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removes deactivating phosphate to activate PDH; regulated with calcium

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20
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Reactions catalyzed by PDH

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  • removal of pyruvate carboxyl group
  • remaining 2C molecule oxidized and NAD+ reduced
  • coenzyme A attached via sulfer atom to make acetyl coA
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21
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respirosome

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physical association of complexes 1, 3, and 4 in the ETC; reduces buildup of ROSs; needed for complex 1 stability

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22
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brown adipose

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tissue used to make heat in non-shivering thermogenesis; heat made with uncoupler UCP1

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23
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UCP mechanism

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  • long chain FA anions trapped by hydrophobic interactions of long tails in their symporter
  • oscillates back and forth
  • unable to dissociate, so only H transported
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24
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dinitrophenol

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uncoupling drug that increases permeability of MIM to H

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25
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heteroplasmy

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multiple different genomes within a single cell

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26
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twinkle

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mtDNA helicase

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Initiation of mtDNA Replication

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  • twinkle binds Ori H, and unwinds short DNA section
  • POLRMT initiates transcription from LSP; provides 3’ primer to start synthesis
  • twinkle passes TAS
  • new strand displaces parental H-strand, making D-loop; coated in mtSSB
  • pol gamma replicates DNA
  • ori L displaced and forms stem loop; primer made on stem loop, and H-strand replicated
  • RNase H removes primer
  • DNA ligase repairs backbone
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28
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rCRS

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revised cambridge reference sequence

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29
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haplogroups

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groups of humans based on mtDNA differences

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30
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mitochondrial eve

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hypothetical common ancestor of all human mtDNA

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31
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TFAM

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transcription factor A, mitochondrial; binds DNA without sequence specificity, binds, wraps, and bends DNA for compaction; Recruits POLMRT to promoter to initiate transcription

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32
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ATAD3

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ATPase triple A domain containing proteins; act as scaffold; binds TFAM and ribosomes to improve efficiency of transcription and translation

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33
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Transcription steps

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  • HSP and LSP recruit POLRMT

- mtDNA transcribed into 2 polycistronic transcripts

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Transcription initiation

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  • TFAM recruits POLRMT and promoter recognized

- TFB2M changes POLRMT to induce DNA melting

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35
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TFB2M

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transcription factor B2

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36
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TEFM

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transcription elongation factor, mitochondrial; promotes POLRMT ability to add nucleotides; required for elongation; acts as switch between transcription and replication

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transcript maturation

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endonuceotytic exision of mt-tRNA releases mRNAs and rRNAs

  • tRNA punctuation model
  • RNase P binds 5’ side of tRNA transcript, RNase 2 binds 3’ end
  • other transcripts released
  • 3’ adenylation completes stop codon
  • rRNAs join with proteins to make ribosomes
  • tRNAs associate with amino-acyl tRNA synthetase
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38
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ribozymes

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RNA with enzymatic properties

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39
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S (svedberg) unit

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sedimentation velocity per unit gravitational force

40
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Transcriptional activators

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proteins binding directly to mitochondria mRNA to help recruit ribosome and initiate transcription

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N-formyl-methionine

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mito and bacterial translation start amino acid (instead of methionine in euk.)

42
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aminoacyl tRNA synthetase

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enzyme responsible for adding amino acids to tRNA

43
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pleiotropy

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one gene mutation has many different effects; ex. tRNA mutations could produce different phenotypes each translation

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electrophoretic effect

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transport based on voltage potential

45
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PAM

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presequence translocase associated motor; uses ATP hydrolysis to pull preprotein into matrix

46
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mia

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protein in MIM that forms transient disulfide bonds with preprotein

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Erv1

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enzyme that oxidizes mia by passing electrons to cytochrome C

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SAM

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sorting and assembly machinery

49
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fractionate

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separate mitochondria from rest of cell for analysis

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OSCP

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oligomycin sensitivity conferring protein

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MICOS

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mitochondrial contact site and cristae organizing system; anchors mitochondrial membranes together

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DnaJ

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Complex unit that embeds in MOM, tethering MIM and MOM together

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MIB

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SAM + MICOS; mito intermembrane space bridging complex

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mfn1

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GTPase involved in mito fusion

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mfn2/f201p

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mito fusion GTPase; fuzzy onion (due to phenotype in spermatid formation of fruit flies)

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OPA1

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optic atrophy; involved in inner membrane fusion

57
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Drp1

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dynamin related protein; in fission

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Dynamins in membrane fission

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  • dynamin forms helical polymer
  • dynamin oligomer constricts in presence of GTP
  • dynamin catalyzes fission upon GTP hydrolysis
  • eventually membranes winched apart
59
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importance of fission and fusion

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  • mitos can have specialized functions in different parts of the cell
  • involved in mito quality control
60
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mitofilin/mic60

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Transmembrane protein part of larger MIB complex involved in crista junction formation

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E1

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activator of ubiquitination

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E2

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conjugation activity during ubiquitination

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E3

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Ligates ubiquitin onto mito proteins (parkin)

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PINK1

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PTEN induced kinase 1; accumulates when membrane potential abnormal and phosphorylates parkin; levels controlled by PARL at normal membrane potentials

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Parkin

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tags mfn1 for ubiquitnation; prevents unhealthy mito fusing with a healthy one; mutations cause parkinson’s

66
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archaezoan

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primitive euk evolved from archaea; often used to describe host at time of endosymbiosis

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PFOR

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pyruvate ferridoxin oxidoreductase; converts pyruvate into CO2, acetyl coA, and reduced ferredoxin

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ferredoxin

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Accepts electrons from hydrogenase to produce hydrogen gas

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hydrogenase

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oxidizes ferredoxin to make hydrogen

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Driving forces of endosymbiosis

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  • reducing levels of toxic oxygen
  • syntropy (host uses symbiont waste products)
  • mutually beneficial energy metabolism
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hydrogen hypothesis

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theory that need for hydrogen by the host drove the endosymbiosis and development of mito

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TACK superphylum

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Archaea group with homologs of ESPs

  • crenactins in korearchaeota, aigararchaeota
  • distant tubulin in thanarchaeota
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Ras-GTPases

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euk proteins involved in cytoskeleton dynamics and phagocytosis

74
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inside out model of nucleus evolution

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-theory of nucleus evolution based on membrane blebs forming to associate more with endosymbiont resulted in the double membrane of the eukaryotic nucleus

75
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group 2 introns

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self-catalytic ribozymes implicated as a driving factor in the development of the nucleus

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IEP

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intron encoded protein; encoded by group 2 introns; has maturase, DNA binding, nuclease, and reverse transcriptase activity

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Domestication of group 2 intron

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Host has adapted methods to regulate introns (ex. spliceosome, low IEP production, etc.)

78
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Mitochondrial cross

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cross where both parents contribute mtDNA

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segregational petities

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show mendellian inheritance

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vegetative petities

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show non-mendellian inheritance

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vegetative

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non-sexual/mitotic

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neutral petities

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all progeny WT; lack mtDNA

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suppressive petities

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mutant phenotypes dominate over WT; have deletions in mtDNA so size made up by replicating whatever’s left until around the same size as WT

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hypersuppressive

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> 95% petite progeny

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panmixis model

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mitos fuse and mtDNA randomly mixes in yeast zygote; homoplasmy happens by chance

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stochastically assorted

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asymmetric distribution initially favours asymmetry later in distribution

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oli

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oligomycin; inhibits ATP synthase

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cap

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chloramphenicol; inhibits mito protein synthesis

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DAPI

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DNA specific fluorescent dye

90
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Ytal10p-GFP

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transmembrane MIM protein; able to populate all parts of membrane over time

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Tom6p-GFP

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outer membrane protein distributed throughout cell after 3-4 hours

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mdm

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mitochondria distribution and morphology mutants

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mmm

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maintenance of mito morphology mutants

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ERMES

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ER-mito encounter structure

95
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Dnm1

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yeast version of Drp1