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What does extracellular matrix surround?

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Connective tissue

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What is extracellular matrix.

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Complex network of proteins and carbohydrates

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What are the functions of the ECM?

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  1. Physical Support
  2. Determines mechanical and physiochemical properties
  3. Influences growth, adhesion and differentiation status
  4. Essential for development, tissue function and organogenesis.
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What are the components of connective tissues?

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  1. Collagens
  2. Glycoproteins
  3. Proteoglycans

(cellular component)

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Types I-III collagen are?

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Fibrillar

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Type 4 collagen is present where?

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In the basement membrane (basal lamina)

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Give examples of glycoproteins.

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  1. Fibronectin
  2. Fibrinogen
  3. Laminins (in basement membrane)
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Give examples of proteoglycans.

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  1. Aggrecan
  2. Versican
  3. Decorin
  4. Perlecan (in basement membrane)
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9
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How can matrix proteins be affected?

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Gene mutations

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Name 5 diseases arising from matrix proteins being affected.

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  1. Osteogenesis imperfecta - Type 1 Collagen
  2. Marfan’s Syndrome - Fibrillin 1
  3. Alport’s syndrome - Type IV collagen (a5)
  4. Epidermolysis bulls - Laminin 5
  5. Congenital Muscular Dystrophy - Laminan 2 (a2)
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Diseases arising from ECM metabolism being affected?

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Hurler’s Syndrome - L-a-iduronidase

Other micopolysaccharidioses

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What causes fibrotic disorders?

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Excess ECM deposition

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13
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Name some fibrotic disorders.

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Liver fibrosis - cirrhosis
Kidney fibrosis - diabetic nephropathy
Lung fibrosis - silicosis

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Disorders due to excessive loss of ECM?

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Osteoarthritis

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What are collagens?

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Family of fibrous proteins - found in all multicellular organisms

Major proteins of bone, tendon and skin

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16
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What is the most abundant protein in mammals?

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Collagen

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17
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How are collagen fibrils arranges in skin?

Why?

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Successive layers are perpendicular to each other (same as in bone and cornea).

Resists force in all directions. Gives tissues tensile stress.

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18
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How many known types of collagen are there?

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28

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How many alpha chains comprise a collagen?

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  1. Forms a triple helix
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20
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How many genes form Type 1 Collagen?

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2 genes

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Which types of collagen are homotrimeric?

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Type 2 and 3

They have the same a chain

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How many genes code for collagen?

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42.

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Every 3rd amino acid residue in the a chain is?

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A glycine.

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Why does the glycine face the interior of the polypeptide chain?

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It is hydrophobic.

Smallest amino acid so can fit in the gap

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Collegen is a stiff triple helical structure?
True
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What is the characteristic of the collagen a-chain?
Consists of a repetitive pattern. X, Y, Glycine. X is often proline Y is often hydroxyproline
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In fibrillar collagens, how many amino acid residues long are the a-chains?
1000.
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How do collagen molecules form a collagen fibril?
By associating laterally.
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What do collagen fibrils form to make?
Collagen fibres, visible to naked eye
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Where are the non-collagenous domains located in newly synthesised collagen chains?
At the N and C terminals
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What happens to the non-collagenous domains after secretion?
They are removed.
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What do the N and C terminals of the pro collagen have?
Globular proteins associated
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How are the globular proteins associated to procollagen cleaved?
Peptidase cleaves them off Some collagen types retain globular ends
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How are the hydrogen bonds formed between collagen fibrils?
Cross links are formed between adjacent collagen fibres
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Explain the biosynthesis of collagen.
1. Procollagen synthesised. 2. Hydroxylation (selected Prolines and Lysines) 3. Glycolysation of certain hydroxylysines. 4. Self assembly of 3 pro -a-chains 5. Procollagen triple helix formation 6. Secretion 7. Cleavage of pro-peptides 8. Self assembly into fibril 9. Aggregation of fibrils to form fibre.
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Why hydroxylate lysine and proline in collagen biosynthesis?
Hydroxylation contributes to hydrogen bond cross link formation
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How are proline and lysine hydroxylated?
Hydroxylated by prolyl and Lysyl hydroxylases
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What do prolyl/lysyl hydroxylases require?
1. Vitamin C | 2. Fe(2+) (Post translational modification)
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How is scurvy caused?
1. Underhydroxylated collagens. 2. Lack cross links, less stable collagen 3. Tissues less stable
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What happens to hydroxylysine and hydroxyproline after secretion?
Undergoes further modification - forms covalent cross links.
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Why do tendons have tensile strength in one direction?
They have parallel collagen fibres?
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How are collagen fibres arranged?
In a staggered array.
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Do all collagens form fibrils?
NO
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What do types 9 and 12 collagens do?
Associate with fibrillar collagens and regulate their organisation.
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Which collagen is a network forming collagen and is present in all basal laminae (by assembling into a sheet-like network)?
Type 4
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What do elastic fibres do?
They give structures elasticity.
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How is the extent of stretching limited?
Collagen and elastic fibres are interwoven
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What are elastic fibre cores made up of?
Microfibrils and proteins Microfibrils rich in protein fibrillin
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How is Marfan syndrome caused?
Fibrillin I mutations.
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What does elastic fibre integrity depend on?
Depends on microfibrils containing fibrillin,
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What happens in patients with Marfan's?
Elastic fibres lack integrity - overly stretched
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What are Marfan's patients more susceptible to?
CVS problems. They are tall and slender.
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What are the 2 segments that make up elastin?
1. Hydrophobic regions 2. a-helical chains (rich in alanine and lysine) Many lysine side chains are cross linked
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What are basement membranes/basal laminae?
Flexible, thin mats of ECM that underlie Epithelial sheets and tubes Highly specialised
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What do basal laminae surround?
Muscle, peripheral nerve and fat cells
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Give a use of ECM.
Filter for macromolecules, acting as a highly selective filter
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What is diabetic nephropathy?
1. ECM accumulation 2. Causes thick kidney glomerulus 3. Thicker basement membrane 4. Causes restricted renal filtration as capillaries are impinged.

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