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PPT 2 Flashcards

Unit 1

1
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What are the 3 factors in receptor concept

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  1. Receptors determine relations between dose/concentration of drug and pharmacologic effects (receptor affinity (Kd) determines dose)
  2. Receptors are responsible for selectivity of drug action
  3. Receptors mediate actions of agonists and antagonists
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2
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What are orphan receptors?

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Receptors that have been identified but we don’t know what binds to it (no known endogenous ligand)

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3
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What are the 3 components of cell signaling?

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  1. Signal
  2. Receptor
  3. Effector

If secondary messaging - also has signal transduction proteins and secondary messengers

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4
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What are the 2 consequences of hormones regulating gene expression?

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Lag period - time it takes to make new proteins
Persistence (effects can continue for hours-days)

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5
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Where can receptor proteins be located?

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In the cell or cell membrane

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6
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Define coupling

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the overall transduction process that links drug occupancy of receptors and pharmacologic response

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7
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How is the efficiency of coupling determined?

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Conformational change, downstream cellular response, and dose response (number of receptors bound - linear, or strength of signal transduction cascade - multiplied response)

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8
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Describe the phosphorylation cascade

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Ligand binding → Receptor activation (change of conformation) → First protein (kinase) activation → Subsequent protein (kinase) activation (amplification) → Effector protein activation → Cellular response

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9
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What are the 5 mechanisms of transmembrane signaling?

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  1. Lipid soluble - intracellular
  2. Enzymatic activity allosteric
  3. Catalytic
  4. Ion channels
  5. GPCRs
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10
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What binds to the alpha portion of the G protein ?

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Guanine nucleotide (GTP) - active or GDP (inactive)

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11
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What makes G-proteins trimeric?

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3 different amino acid strands that function together to form G-protein
Alpha - binds to GDP (inactive) or GTP (active)
Beta and gamma - help binding to receptor itself

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12
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What receptors are intracellular?

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Lipid soluble - uncharged
Gasses - easily diffuses through membrane

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What is the motif of every GPCR?

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Have 7 trans-membrane alpha helices

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14
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What are the steps to the GPCR cascade?

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  1. Drug binds to receptor - activates alpha subunit of G protein (conformation change)
  2. G protein releases GDP and binds GTP
  3. G protein activates effector protein
  4. Secondary messenger cascade or ion conductance
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15
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What makes a GPCR response fast vs slow?

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Fast - rapid desensitization, metabotropic ion channels
Slow - secondary messenger (transcription factor activation)

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16
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What is the most important part of the G protein?

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Alpha subunit - activates effector

17
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Differentiate between desensitization and resensitization

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  • When first give agonist, response jumps up, peaks, then declines (muted response with same amount of agonist) - desensitization
  • Stop giving agonist, then wait, then give agonist again → see same response - resensitization
18
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Describe the steps to the desensitization process

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  1. Drug binds to receptor → promotes receptor interaction with G proteins in cytoplasm (closed → open conformation)
  2. Agonist-activated receptors phosphorylated by G protein-coupled receptor kinase (GPK), preventing receptor interaction with G protein → attracts beta-arestin (B-Arr)
  3. B-Arr receptor complex binds to coated pits, promoting receptor internalization
  4. 2 possibilities:
    Possibility 1 - resensitization (Drug falls off receptor→ phosphatase dephosphorylates receptor and receptor recyles back to cell membrane)
    Possibility 2 → degradation (Can’t get drug off of receptor → lysosome merges with drug/receptor complex → enzymes from lysosome degrade receptor)
19
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Why would a receptor be degraded instead of resensitized (recycled)?

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Repeated or prolonged exposure of cells to agonist favors degradation → promoting receptor down-regulation rather than resensitization

20
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How does beta-arestin work?

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Beta-arestin is a protein that binds to -OH groups when receptor in open conformation for long time (prolonged binding - i.e. covalent bonds) and binds to coated pits, preventing G protein from rebinding

21
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How does the coated pit engulf the receptor complex?

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Clathrin coated pit (endocytosis) drags whole receptor with bound drug and beta-arestin into cell

22
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Differentiate between kinase and phosphatase

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Kinase attaches phosphate group to protein
Phosphatase strips away phosphate group from protein

23
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How do RTKs work?

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Receptor tyrosine kinases:
1. Ligands bind to receptors, cause conformation change, and dimerization of 2 receptors
2. RTK activated by dimers and phosphorylates tyrosines on receptor dimer from ATP
3. Docking sites for downstream signaling molecules activated

24
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How many ATP are necessary for RTK phosphorylation?

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6 - or as many as OH groups

25
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What are the 2 signal types for ion channels?

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Ligand and voltage gated

26
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How are voltage-gated ion channels activated?

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Change in voltage activates channel; no drug binding, activated by change in voltage

27
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Where are voltage-gated ion channels found?

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-Found in excitable cells (neurons, muscle, endocrine cells)

28
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When are voltage-gated ion channels open vs closed?

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Closed at resting membrane potential
Open at threshold

29
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Describe the different conformations of the voltage-gated ion channels? Which gates are open when?

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Closed - gate 1 closed, 2 open
Activated - both gates open
Inactivated - gate 2 closes, gate 1 open
Deactivated - both closed

30
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Differentiate ionotropic from metabotropic ligand-gated ion channels

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Ionotropic - Ligand binding site and channel on same protein
Metabotropic - Ligand activates GPCR, second messenger activity opens channel

31
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What is the most common second messenger?

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cAMP (cyclic adenosine monophosphate)

32
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Dose response is related to

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Amount of receptors bound and or the strength of signal transduction cascade

33
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2/3 of all non-antibiotic drugs are activated by

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GPCRs

34
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Sodium channels are considered to be

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fast

35
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Calcium ion channels are considered to be

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slow

36
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The example in lecture of a metabotropic ligand gated ion channel is in the ____________ system

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olfactory

37
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Receptors inside the cell can only be easily activated by ________

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something that is lipid soluble and can freely diffuse through the cell membrane (ex Gasses and steroid hormones)

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