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What is the cell cycle?

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  1. cell growth and chromosome replication
  2. chromosome segregation
  3. cell division
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What is the orderly sequence of events in which a cells duplicates?

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  • duplication
  • division
  • coordination
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Different cells divide at different rates

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fastest: embryonic and yeast cells

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What does the rate of division depend on?

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  • the type of cell
  • complexity of system
  • necessity for renewal
  • state of differentiation (some cells never divide)
  • tumour cells
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What are the phases of the cell cycle?

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G1 phase
S phase
G2 phase
M phase (mitosis)

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What does G phase stand for?

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gap

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What is the interphase?

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G1 + S + G2

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What is G0?

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quiescent phase

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What happens in the absence of stimulus to cells?

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they go into G0

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Which cells arent dormant, but are non-dividing?

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neurons
skeletal muscle
hepatocytes

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How does the cell decide if it can enter the cycle?

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Monitoring external environment: - nutriets

- growth factors

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When does a cell pause?

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DNA repair

undergo apoptosis

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Why do cells ever leave G0?

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signalling cascades

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What are the signalling cascades?

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  • response to extracellular factors (growth factors stimulate entry from G0 into the G1 phase)
  • signal amplification
  • signal integration/ modulation by other pathways
  • Ras/ Raf /MEK/ ERK (kinases- enzymes)
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What do the kinase enzymes do in the cell cycle?

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  • protein synthesis increased
  • protein degradation decreased
  • -> overall net growth of the cell
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What is c-Myc ?

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transcription factor

drives the production of specific cell cycle genes

induced the expression of Cyclin D which drives entry into S phase

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What do growth factor signalling pathways induce?

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the expression of c-Myc

  • c-Myc promotes G0 to G1 transition
  • c-Myc is an oncogene - overexpressed in many tumours
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What is the key role of Cyclic dependant kinases (Cdks)?

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phosphorylation + dephosphorylation

  • key signaling events
  • serine/ threonine/ tyrosine
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What else do Cdks allow?

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exquisite control of events:

  • cdks present in proliferating cells
  • BUT only active when a cyclin is bound
20
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Why are they called cyclins?

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bc their concs within the cell fluctuate

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What cyclin is active during mitosis?

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Cdk complex

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What is the pathway of cell cycle entry?

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growth factor –>
C-Myc –>
Cyclin D –>
cyclin D/ Cdk 4/ 6 complex

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What are the checkpoints that can arrest the cell cycle?

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G1: - damaged DNA
- unfavourable extracellular environment
S: damaged or incompletely replicated DNA
G2: damaged or incompletely replicated DNA
M: chromosome improperly attached to mitotic spindle

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What are protein kinase cascades?

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Kinases activate a molecule by phosphorylation

phosphorylation of one kinase then allows it to phosphorylate another kinase and a third kinase and so on

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What do protein kinase cascades lead to?
- signal amplification - diversification - opportunity for regulation
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What are phosphatases?
they reverse phosphorylation
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Where are cyclin-dependent kinases present? | Cdk1, Cdk2, Cdk4, Cdk6
in proliferating cells throughout the cell cycle
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How is the activity of Cdk's regulated?
- interaction with cyclins | - phosphorylation
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Cyclins? | CyclinA, CyclinB, CyclinD, CyclinE
transiently expressed at specific points in the cell cycle - regulated at level of expression - synthesised, then degraded
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What drives the cell cycle forwards?
Positive feedback
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What drives the entry to the S phase?
active S-Cdk
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What drives the entry to the M phase?
active M-Cdk
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What are the 3 steps required to activate the cdk?
1. phosphorylation 2. dephosphorylation 3. binding of the cyclin (s or M)
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How are cyclins turned off?
``` by ubiqutination (post-it notes- destroy me) and then destruction ```
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When cyclins become sequentially active what do they stimulate?
synthesis of genes requires for the next phase
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What is a retinoblastoma?
- a molecular "brake" - if its missing or inactive --> issues of cell cycle progression - a tumour suppressor abundant in all nucleated cells
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What does a growth factor do?
drives cell proliferation
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What does a retinoblastoma (Rb) act as?
a brake on cell proliferation
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What happens when TFs are bound to the retinoblastoma?
Tfs cannot turn of genes needed for cell cycle progresion: eg DNA polymerase thymidine kinase
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What does the prolyphertion of Rb release?
the brake in a prolypherating cell - Activation of intracellular signaling leads to production of G1-Cdk and G1/S–Cdk complexes - can phosphorylate Rb inducing the inactivation of Rb and release of the TF. - Target genes such as DNA polymerase and thymidine kinase can now activated.
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What do E2F family members regulate?
the expression of several genes need for cell cycle progression
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What does p53 do?
arrests cells with damaged DNA in G1
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What happens in absence of DNA damage?
p53 is degraded in proteasomes p53 also induces the production of the Cdk inhibitor p21
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What happens if there is DNA damage?
- stable, activated p53 - active p53 binds to regulatory region of p21 Gene - transcription --> p21 mRNA
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What are p21 family members?
inhibitors of cyclin: Cdk complexes
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What are the oncogenes?
- EGFR/HER2 mutationally activated of over expressed in breast cancers Herceptin antibody for the treatment of HER2+ metastatic breast cancer - Ras mutationally activated in many cancers - Cyclin D1 overexpressed in 50% of breast cancers - C-Myc overexpressed in many tumours
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What are tumour suppressors?
- Rb loss of function mutations in 80% of small cell lung cancers - p53 loss of function mutations in over 50% of all human cancers

POM (Principles of Medicine) (17 decks)

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