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Regulation of Gene Expression I Flashcards

1
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What are the 2 major modifications that dictate if a region of a chromosome is active vs inactive?

A

DNA methylation

Histone modification

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2
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Where is DNA methylated?

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5-methyl cystosine

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3
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What is chromatin composed of?

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DNA plus all the associated proteins stuck on it

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4
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What is a histone?

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Core of nucleosomes, with DNA wrapped around it

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5
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in eukaryotes, most genes are ___.

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Silenced

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What are the characteristics of the DNA and histones in heterchromatin?

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DNA is hypermethylated at CpG dinucleotides

Histones are deacetylated

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7
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What are the characteristics of the DNA and histones of euchromatin?

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DNA is hypomethylated

Histones are acetylated

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8
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Which is being actively transcribed, heterochromatin or euchromatin?

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Euchromatin

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9
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What do histone acetyl transferases (HATs) do?

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Unwind DNA to promote transcription

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10
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What do histone deacetylases (HDACs) do?

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Reverse HATs and form nucleosomes

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11
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When chromatin relaxes, what results?

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Hypersensitivity to DNase treatment

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12
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What does epigenetic mean?

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Changes in phenotype without changes in genotype - Genes are the same, but only some are active in certain tissues

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13
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What is the gene silencing mechanism?

A

DNA methylation

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14
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What is the gene activation mechanism?

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Histone acetylation

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15
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What are the 2 epigenetic modification activating marks that we need to know?

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Histone acetylation of H3 and H4

Unmethylated CpG

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16
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What are the 2 epigenetic modification silencing marks that we need to know?

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Histone deacetylation at H3 and H4

Methylated CpG

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17
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DNA methylation = ?

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Gene silencing

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18
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CpG pairs have been lost from the genome over time except in ___.

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Euchromatin

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19
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What does spontaneous deamination of 5-methyl cytosine yield?

20
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CpG sites are hotspots for what?

A

Genetic mutation

21
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What do methylcytosines do?

A

Attract/recruit repressor proteins - directly block transcription factor from binding; may recruit other proteins to block transcription of the gene

22
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Histone deacetylation is a marker for what?

23
Q

What regulates X-inactivation?

A

The Xist gene transcript, transcribed from the inactivated X chromasome

24
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What are the classic examples of genomic imprinting?

A

Prader-Willi

Angelman

25
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If only paternal genes are expressed, which disease is present?

26
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What is the mutant chromosome present in Angelman?

A

Mutant maternal chromosome 15

27
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If only maternal genes are expressed, which disease is present?

A

Prader-Willi

28
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What is the mutant chromosome in Prader-Willi?

A

Mutant paternal chromosome 15

29
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What are the symptoms of Prader-Willi?

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Mental retardation
Obesity
Hypogonadism
Small hands and feet
Itchy skin
Voracious appetite
30
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What are the symptoms of Angelman?

A 
Mental retardation
Hypotonia
Absence of speech
Large mandible
Tongue thrusting
Epilepsy
31
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DNA methyltransferases uses what as the methyl donor?

32
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Which enzyme is important in silencing genes?

33
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Folate deficiency during development increases the risk of what?

A

Neural tube defects

34
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Hyperhomocysteinuria increases the risk for what?

A

Cardiovascular disease

35
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What 2 things does smoking cause in genes?

A

Hypomethylation of oncogenes (increases activity of proliferation genes)
Hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes (turns them off)

36
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What DNA-protein interactions are required in transcriptional regulation? (proteins)

A

DNA binding proteins

Chromatin modifiers

37
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What DNA-protein interactions are required in transcriptional regulation? (DNA)

A

Core promoter sequences

Enhancer/repressor DNA sequences

38
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What are the DNA binding proteins that regulate transcription initiation?

A

Transcription factors (TFs)

39
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TFs serve as recruiters for what?

A

The basal transcriptional machinery, like RNA polymerase

40
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Binding of TFs can increase the transcription rate of a gene by how much?

A

Many thousand fold

41
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What do basal factor TFs do?

A

Position RNA polymerase on the core promoter

42
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What do activators do? (TFs)

A

Bind to enhancer elements

Increase rate of assembly of transcriptional machinery (like NFkB, P53)

43
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What are the classes of TFs?

A 
Basal factors
Activators
Co-activators
Repressors
Chromatin modifiers
44
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Co-activators are also known as what?

45
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What do repressors bind to?

A

Silencer elements

46
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What are the chromatin modifiers?

A

HATs
HDACs
HMG

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