SP-HC4: Alberts h17 (Cell Cycle) Flashcards
The cell cycle checkpoints
-Metaphase to anaphase: are all chromosomes attached to spindle? proceed to cytokinesis
-G1/S checkpoint: is the environment favorable? proceed to S-phase
-G2/M checkpoint: is the DNA replicated and is the environment favorable? proceed to mitosis
The cell cycle is regulated by cyclins. Name the types of cyclins.
-G1/S cyclins: activate Cdks in late G1
-S cyclins: start/help DNA duplication
-M cyclins: stimulate entry into mitosis
To which enzymes do cyclins bind?
Cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) > checkpoint molecules
Which cyclins are active in which cell cycle phases?
G1/S cyclin: during G1 phase
S-cyclin: during late G1, S, G2 and M until metaphase-anaphase
M-cyclin: during late G2 phase until metaphase-anaphase
How are Cdks activated?
A cyclin binds to a Cdk > the T-loop will expose and a CAK (Cdk-activating kinase) will phosphorylate the loop for activation
Wee1-kinase
A kinase which can add an additional phosphate group to an active Cdk-cyclin complex, which inactivates the complex (inhibitory phosphate)
Cdc25 phosphatase
Cdc25 can remove the additional inhibitory phosphate on a Cdk-cyclin complex > reactivation
p27
p27 can bind an active Cdk complex which inactivates it > safety mechanism (like a clamp on the complex)
> p27 is mutated in cancer cells > proliferation
> p27 regulation through gene expression
Positive feedback mechanism of M-Cdk
PP2A-B55 phosphatase dephosphorylates Cdk-substrates for inactivation/
- Active M-Cdk activates Greatwall kinase
> Greatwall kinase activates Ensa
> Ensa inactivates PP2A-B55
- M-Cdk activated Cdc25 by phosphorylation and removes inhibitory phosphates from M-Cdk molecules
PP2A-B55 inhibitory mechanisms
-Dephosphorylate Cdk-targets
-Inactivate Greatwall kinase
-Dephosphorylation Wee1 > activation (inhibitory phosphate)
> Wee1 adds inhibitory phosphate to M-Cdk
M-Cdk main function
Phosphorylate substrates which lead to mitosis
Function APC/C
Anaphase-promoting complex or cyclosome > ubiquitin ligase > initiation proteolysis in proteasome
Targets APC/C
-Securin: securin inhibits separase, the sister chromatid seperator enzyme
-S- & M-cyclins: Cdk inactivation by breakdown of cyclins
APC/C pathway with Cdc20 / Cdh1
In M-phase
-M-Cdk phosphorylates APC/C and Cdh1
-APC/C binds Cdc20 > activation
-APC/C-Cdc20 initiates anaphase and inactivaties M-Cdk by ubiquitination of M-cyclin
-APC/C is dephosphorylated and inactive (unbinding of Cdc20 due to conformation)
-Cdh1(P) is inactive
Onset G1-phase
-M-Cdk inactivation by APC/C leads to dephosphorylation of Cdh1 > activation
-Dephosphorylated APC/C can bind active Cdh1 > activation
-APC/C-Cdh1 keeps destructing M-cyclin and thereby inhibiting M-Cdk
DNA damage can influence checkpoints. How?
Inhibit G1/S-Cdk, S-Cdk, M-Cdk
> S-Cdk and M-Cdk prevent DNA re-replication
How is one time replication regulated?
Assembly of PreRCs (block the replication origins) > inhibited by Cdks and activated by APC/C
>Low PreRCs during S-phase and G2-phase
S-Cdk DNA replication pathway
Prevention new duplication: phosphorylation of Orc (origin recognition complex) during S/G2/M
- S-Cdk activation stimulates assembly of Cdc45 and GINS at each Mcm helicase (inactive)
-DDK (a kinase) phosphorylates Mcm helicase forming an active CMG helicase (complex of Cdc45-Mcm-GINS) > unwinding DNA > trigger DNA-polymerase activity
Prophase
Condensation of sister chromatids which are still closely associated. Assembly mitotic spindle between 2 centrosomes.
Prometaphase
Breakdown nuclear envelope > microtubuli can reach the chromatids. And further condensation of sister chromatids
Metaphase
Chromosomes are localised in the equatorial axis and the kinetochore MTs bind the sister chromatids at opposite poles of the spindle
Anaphase
Sister chromatids seperate in sinc because of shrinkage of kinetochore MTs.
Spindle poles move apart from each other due to elongation of the spindle
Telophase
Sets of daughter chromosomes arrive at the poles and decondensate, a new nuclear envelope is made around the set of chromosomes and the contractile ring starts forming.
What characteristic means the end of mitosis
Forming of 2 new nuclei
Cytokinesis
Division of the cytoplasm by the contractile ring consisting of actine and myosine
Centrosome division
Early in cell cycle
-G1: procentriole site selection
-S: centriole duplication
-Entry into M-phase:
> Removal tether between centrosomes
> centriole and centrosome maturation
> centrosome seperation
-Licensing (start G1)
> contriole disengagement and centriole-to-centrosome conversion
Where are the kinetochores located most of the times?
At the centromeres
How many winds of DNA around a nucleosome core particle?
2.5x
Cohesins
Cohesins hold the sister chromatids toghether tightly
> Smc molecules with ATPase domain > dimer binds ATP
>Scc molecules as a clamp around Smc-heterodimer
>Smc dimer forms a loop around the sister chromatids