Movement without Muscle 4/1 Flashcards
What are the basic types of muscle movement?
amoeboid
ciliary and flagella
muscle contraction
direct cell movement
What is an example of direct cell movement?
cytokinesis
movement of chromosomes by mitotic spindle
mediated by microtubules
At the small scale what forces in water dominant? At our scale what forces dominant?
Water is an allometric response. At our scale water is dominated by inertial forces. But at the smaller scale viscous forces dominant.
What is the different use of cilia and flagella when your small compared to when your large human sized?
Small organisms use cilia and flagella to move through the water and larger organisms use cilia and flagella to move water across their surface.
What is an example of cilia in the human body?
In the respiratory tract cilia move mucus and fluid out of the lungs
What are the contractile proteins?
Actin
intermediate fibers
tubulin
WHat are the molecular motors?
myosin
dynein
kinesin
What are the regulatory proteins?
tropomyosin
troponin
calmodulin
alpha-actinin
What are the three categories of molecules of motion?
contractile proteins
molecular motors
regulatory proteins
WHat are contractile proteins?
Passive components. They resist tension compression or both and can be used to push or pull things
What are the two form of actin?
G-actin
F-actin
What is G-actin look like?
It is a globular actin looks like a circle.
What is F-actin look like?
Filamentous actin. It is composed of a bunch of g actin subunits in like a chain of pearl like structure
What does the structure of F-actin do to the molecule.
The g actin forms f actin and f actin interacts with each other to reduce the total volume of the molecule and usually two F-actin strands will will but up together
F actin normally occurs in what
pairs
WHat do actin fibers reasist and does that mean they push or pull?
They resist tension so they pull.
Why is typical actin?
The first actin described and comes from muscles.
What is an important molecule of motion in amoeboid movement?
actin
What does tubulin resist? And does it push or pull?
compression and tension
pushes and pulls
What is tubulin composed of?
heterodimers-two monomer protein units of different sizes
The subunits of microtubulin will hook together and make what structure?
microtubule
what are the intermediate fibers?
catch all group for molecules that have smaller roles such as keratin, collagen
What do molecular motors require and why?
Atp because they are active
What are molecular motors?
Active molecules that have some enzyme activity (ATPase)
WHat is myosin?
a molecular motor
what is the shape of myosin?
contains a shaft followed by a hinge arrangement and a large globular head
In myosin where is the ATPase activity found?
in the globular head
Myosin interacts spontaneously with what other molecule?
Actin
where does a crossbridge form?
Between the globular head of myosin and actin in the presence of atp
In non muscle cells what is the difference in myosin?
The globular head is a little smaller and the shaft is thinner.
What is dynein?
A molecular motor an ATPase that also has a structural function with regards to microtubules bc dynein binds to 2 microtubules and produces a sliding movement between them
What do molecular motors exert motion wise?
Kind if sliding motion between tubular elements