Week 2 Flashcards
Endocrine chemical messenger cells:
secrete hormone into the blood
specific target cells that can be very far away
usually high concentrations to react all over body (insulin, glucagon, cortisol)
Paracrine chemical messenger cells:
Actions performed on nearby cells
Only need low amounts of secretions to only act locally
Location of cells plays a role in specificity of response
Autocrine chemical messenger cells:
Act on the cell from which it is secreted or on nearby cells that are of the same type
Most autocrine cells are also paracrine cells
Hydrophobic chemical messengers are specific for _______ _______
Intracellular receptors (Ex: Steroid hormones - cortisol) - also called Lipophilic hormones
For intracellular receptors and hydrophobic messengers like cortisol, are they fast or slow to change cellular phenotype after eliciting a transcriptional response?
Slow
______ chemical messengers are specific for plasma membrane (cell surface) receptors.
Hydrophilic
What are the examples of the Cell surface membrane receptors?
Serine/threonine kinases (heterodimirical)
Tyrosine kinases (insulin)
Jak-STAT signaling
G-protein coupled receptors
How do cell surface membrane receptors change enzyme activity ? direct or indirect? what type of interactions? Fast or slow to change phenotype?
Direct
Protein-protein interactions
Fast to change phenotype
What does cortisol need to attach when traveling in bloodstream due to it being hydrophobic?
Attach to serum albumin (plasma protein) and steroid hormone binding globulin
Where is cortisol released from?
Adrenal Cortex and diffuses into bloodstream
What does Cortisol bind to?
Cortisol receptors (intracellular) in the cytosol after diffusion through plasma membrane
What are the 3 domains of the Cortisol receptors?
- Transactivation Domain
- DNA binding domain
- Ligand binding domain
What does the Ligand binding domain on Cortisol receptors do?
Causes conformation change in receptor
- Dimerization of receptors
- Exposes a nuclear translocation signal- allows hormone receptor to cross the nuclear membrane into nucleus
What does the Hormone receptor complex for Cortisol do once in the nucleus?
Acts as transcription factor
-Binds to portion of DNA called the hormone response element or GRE (glucocorticoid response element)
What is the name or the section that the hormone receptor complex for cortisol binds to once in the nucleus?
Glucocorticoid response element (GRE)
-or called hormone response element
What happens after the Glucocorticoid response element (GRE) is bout to by the cortisol receptor hormone complex once inside nucleus?
Induction (increase) or Repression (decrease) in gene transcription depending on the location of the GRE that is bound on DNA
How is the signal that the cortisol receptor induces terminated? where in the chain of events?
Cortisol concentration is lowered by the liver destroying cortisol (degrading) so that less signaling occurs
Where are Tyrosine Kinase receptors (insulin signaling)?
TK receptors are in the cell membrane (transmembrane)
-Function as dimmers
What happens after the insulin hormone binds to the receptor?
Autophosphorylation occurs on inner side of receptor
IRS (insulin receptor substrate) protein is then bound to receptor and forms a phosphorylated tyrosyl residue (tyrosine) at multiple sites
What happens during the tyrosine kinase insulin pathway after the tyrosyl residue is phosphorylated on the IRS proteins?
Multiple different proteins can bind to different phosphorylated tyrosyl residues
What different proteins can bind to the phosphorylated tyrosyl residue on the IRS protein that is bound on the intermembrane side of the insulin hormone receptor?
PI-3 kinase (Phosphoinostitol 3 Kinase)
PLC (Phosophlipase C)
Grb2
(all have SH2 domain that binds to different sites on phosphate group of IRS protein)
What does the Grb2 bind in the specific Insulin pathway (Tyrosine Kinase pathway example)?
Activated Grb2 binds to GAP1 (or a SOS-GEF) which is connected to a PIP in the membrane
What happens to the SOS-Ras complex after is has a conformation change in the general Tyrosine Kinase pathway and GDP was exchanged for GTP?
Ras-GTP binds to Raf to activate it
What is the purpose of activating Raf in the general Tyrosine kinase pathway by the Ras-GTP complex?
Activated Raf is the first step in a MAP-kinase cascade that can lead to a change in gene transcription
What does PIP stand for in the insulin tyrosine-kinase signaling pathway?
Phosophtidylinositol signaling
What does the Pl-3 kinase do to the PIP in the membrane during the insulin tyrosine kinase pathway?
Recognizes PI 4,5-bisP and phosphorylates it into PI 3,4,5,-trisP (just adds one phosphate group)
What happens after the PI 4,5-bisP is turned into PI 3,4,5-trisP in the insulin tyrosine-kinase pathway?
Phosphoinostitol Dependent Kinase 1 (PDK 1)
and
Protein Kinase B (PK B)
both are attracted to side due to their pleckstrin homology domains and both bind
What is the similarity that PDK 1 and PK B share that attracts both of them to bind PI 3,4,5,-trisP in the insulin tyrosine kinase pathway?
both have Pleckstrin Homology domains for binding
What happens after PDK1 and PKB are bound to PI 3,4,5, trisP in the insulin tyrosine kinase pathway?
PKB (protein Kinase B) is phosphorylated and activated by PDK 1 (Phosphoinostitol Dependent Kinase 1)
PKB is released in active form as second messenger to trigger MAP Kinase signaling pathway downstream (analogous to Raf protein in general Tyrosine-kinase pathway)
In the general Tyrosine kinase pathway, what does Grb2 have bind to it and activate ?
Once Grb2 is bound on SH2 side, conformation change occurs on SH3 domain (opposite side) and attracts a protein SOS (Guanine exchange factor or GEF)
What does SOS or GEF (Guanine exchange factor) do in the general tyrosine kinase pathway?
binds with Ras which is bound on the inner leaflet of the cellular membrane
In the general Tyrosine-kinase pathway, what happens after the Ras is bound by GEF?
the Ras is holding GDP and it is exchanged for GTP which then attracts Raf to bind to it to activate Raf
What is the purpose of activation of the Raf that binds to Ras holding GTP?
MAP kinase signaling pathway is activated to elicit transcription response/cellular response induced by the original signaling molecule outside the cell
What does MAP kinase stand for?
Mitogen-activated protein kinase
-are specific to serine, threonine, and tyrosine
What are the sites by the Ligand binding domain on the steroid hormone receptor (Glucocorticoid receptor)?
Dimerization sites
Inhibitor binding sites
NLS
What is another name for the Glucocorticoid receptor?
Steroid hormone receptor (intracellular receptor) for cortisol
What is the example of an Intracellular receptor ?
Glucocorticoid receptor (steroid hormones)
What are the three main domains on the Glucocorticoid receptor (intracellular)?
Transactivation Domain (TAD) DNA- binding domain (DBD) Ligand binding Domain (LBD)
What are the 3 extra sites on the Glucocorticoid receptor that are near the Ligand binding domain ?
Dimerization sites (Dimer-Dimer formation)
Inhibitor-binding sites
Nuclear Localization signal (targets it to nucleus)
In the absence of Ligand in the cytosol, what are the two proteins that are bound to eachother keeping the Glucocorticoid Receptor inactive (GR)?
Heat-shock protein is bound to the GR
What happens when cortisol is present in the cytosol to the heat-shock protein and GR?
heat-shock protein releases from GR
Cortisol will bind as substrate to GR, activating GR
What happens when GR is activated by Cortisol binding?
Conformational change (Dimer-Dimer formation) and 3 sites are exposed now: Transactivation domain (TAD) DNA-binding domain (DBD) Nuclear localization signal (NLS)
Where does the GR that has been activated bind to once it has entered the Nuclear pore and the nucleus?
GRE = Glucocorticoid response element
-specific site on DNA upstream from transcription site
What does the GRE in the nucleus do once it is activated by Glucocorticoid receptor ?
Can increase induce or repress gene transcription based on location of GRE that is bound:
Recruit Co-Acivators that are associated with activating:
Basal transcription complex - increases gene transcription
HORMONE RECEPTOR COMPLEX is a Transcription factor
Glucocorticoid response element (GRE) in nucleus on DNA is upstream of many genes for transcription, so in the presence of ________ there are changes in transcription of many different genes.
Cortisol
What other substrates act similarly to the Cortisol pathway for intracellular receptors that are transported into the nucleus?
Vitamin D
Retinoic Acid
Cortisol
What is different in the Serine-Threonine Kinase receptors from the Tyrosine kinase receptors?
Receptors usually form heterodimers instead of homodimers
Type II receptor will autophosphorylate the type 1 receptor upon ligand binding
What happens in Serine-Threonine Kinase pathway (in TGF-Beta example) after the Type 1 receptor is phosphorylated by the Type II receptor to be activated?
Serine phosphorylated section of Type 1 receptor recruits:
R-Smad proteins
What happens after R-Smad proteins are bound to the phosphorylated Serine on the Type 1 receptor for the TGF-Beta receptor?
R-smad phosphorylates itself on several Serine sites
What happens after R-smad phosphorylates itself on its own Serine sites?
R-smad is released and then binds with Co-Smad and makes a complex that migrates to nucleus to impact transcription
What is the basic structure of a G-Protein receptor complex?
- Heptahelical receptors (7 alpha helixes) on external membrane with 7 transmembrane domains
- Heterotrimeric G-protein on intracellular membrane
- G-protein itself has an Alpha, Beta, Gamma section that spilts to activate separate pathways
What 3 pathway signaling cascades with G-Protein potentially activate?
cAMP DAG IP3 (all second messengers) -leads to cellular response
What happens after a ligand binds to the heptahelical receptor connected to G-protein?
G-alpha-S subunit of G-protein is holding GDP and exchanges it for GTP (site conformational change to face more cytosol where [GTP] is higher so it will exchange) to activate the subunit and dissociate it from Beta and Gamma units
what happens after G-alpha-S subunit of G-protein after it dissociates from the Beta and Gamma units and the membrane (activated by exchanging GDP to GTP) ?
G-alpha-S binds and activates Adenylyl cyclase protein in membrane and keeps it active until EXHANGES own GTP back for GDP+inorganic phosphate group through hydrolysis and unbinds
What happens when the Adenylyl (Adenylate) cyclase is activated by G-alpha-S ?
Adenylyl cyclase turns ATP into cAMP (second messenger)
What happens to the phosphate groups when ATP is converted by Adenylyl cyclase to cAMP?
chain of 3 phosphates taken away and only one phosphate group is left that has 1 Oxygen on Carbon3 and one on Carbon 5
(aka 3,5-cyclic AMP)
What is the other name for cAMP?
3,5,-cyclic AMP
What regulates cAMP? where is it located?
cAMP phosphodiesterase
Found in cell membrane - intracellular side
What type of regulation and what does it do:
cAMP phosphodiesterase ?
Negative regulation- degrades the cAMP back to 5-AMP from cAMP so that the phosphate group is attached like it was on ATP (but just one phosphate group hence the “M”)
What does ATP stand for ?
Adenosine triphosphate
What is the example of the G-Protein receptor complex pathway?
Glucagon receptor