Week 1 Flashcards
(162 cards)
Five different properties of malignant cancer cells
1) Unresponsive to normal signals for proliferation control
2) De-differentiated (lack specialized structures/functions)
3) Invasive (outgrowth into normal neighbors)
4) Metastatic (shed and proliferate)
5) Clonal in origin (derived from single cell)
Cancer is the accumulation of ____________ over time. Cancer ________ can be inherited in a ______ or _______ pattern
many somatic genetic alterations and mutations
Susceptibility
Dominant or recessive
4 steps for carcinogenesis
1) Tumor initiation
2) Tumor promotion
3) Tumor conversion
4) Tumor progression
Carcinogenic mutations can occur in two types of genes, ________ and ______
Oncogenes
anti-oncogenes (Tumor Suppressors)
Oncogenes
Genes that normally stimulate cellular proliferation - are activated in carcinogenesis
= Gas Pedal
Tumor Suppressors (anti-oncogenes)
normally inhibit cellular proliferation - inactivated in carcinogenesis
= Brakes
Types of cytogenetic abnormalities associated with malignancy: (3)
1) Translocations and gene deletions
2) Loss of heterozygosity
3) aneuploidy
Events that can produce loss of heterozygosity (2)
1) Mitotic recombination
2) Loss of chromosome or translocation
The Retinoblastoma Gene is on chromosome ______ and acts as a ___________
chr13q14
tumor suppressor
Patients with “inherited” RB are ________ for the RB gene in their normal tissues and ________ for the RB gene in their tumor cells. Patients with inherited RB therefore typically have ________ retinoblastomas
heterozygous
homozygous
bilateral
Patients with no family history of RB must have ________ in order to get a retinoblastoma. Patients in this case thus typically have ______ retinoblastomas.
- two independent events occurring in retinal cells that cause both copies of RB gene to be non-functional.
- unilateral RBs
RB is hyperphosphorylated in _________ cells at ________ stage of the cell cycle
rapidly proliferating
at S or G2 of the cell cycle
__________ phosphorylates RB protein and causing it to be _________. _______ levels fluctuate while ______ levels are always the same.
CDKs + Cyc complexes
-inactivated
Cyc level fluctuates, CDK level always the same
When RB is phosphorylated in no longer is able to _______________
inhibit transition into S phase, allowing cell division cycle to begin
RB is hypophosphorylated in _________ cells at _______ stage of the cell cycle. When RB is not phosphorylated it _____________
non-proliferating cells
at G0 or G1 of the cell cycle
inhibits entry into S phase
RB is a target for many ______________. These drive a quiescent cell into S phase by producing __________
animal tumor viruses
viral proteins
_________ and ________ are examples of animal tumor viruses.
SV40 and HPV
HPV virus infects cells causing them to produce ________ and _______ proteins which inhibit _______ and ________ respectively
HPV E7 and E6 proteins
RB and p53 tumor suppressors
______, ________ and _______ are homologs that act as tumor suppressors. Their activity is _________.
RB, p107, p130
tissue specific
The APC gene is a ________ and when mutated, is involved in _________. APC gene is located on chromosome _____
Tumor suppressor gene
Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP)
chr5q
Familial Adenomatous Polyposis is inherited in a _________ pattern, and requires loss of hederozygosity in adenomatous polyps of the colon to cause _____________
autosomal dominant
colon cancer by age 50
APC gene encodes a protein that regulates localization of ____________.
Beta-Catenin protein
B-Catenin protein is typically bound to _________ and kept sequestered in the _________. When B-Catenin is free in the cytoplasm, the _______ acts to break it down. Without this, B-catenin will _________
E-Cadherin, kept sequestered in plasma membrane
APC protein
enter the nucleus and activate transcription of oncogenes (c-myc)
BRCA1 and BRCA2 to function in ________.
DNA repair