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Exam 3 pt 3 Flashcards

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RhoA

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Monomeric GTPase which controls the assembly and contraction of the contractile ring

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RhoA is turned on by

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RhoGef, localized in the cell cortex at the future site of cell division

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RhoA - GTP activates

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formins which nucleat the growth of straight unbranched actin that can form parallel bundles

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Phosphorylation of the _ by Rho-GTP kinases triggers

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myosin regulatory light chain, triggers activation of myoson 2 whic assembles the contractile ring and contracts it

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midbody

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A narrow structure connecting daughter cells near the end of cytokinesis, it contains tightly packed microtubules derived from the antiparallel interpolar microtubules of the spindle midzone surrounded by a dense matrix material

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_ initiates cytokinesis

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dephosphorylation of Cdk substrates (due to APC/C mediated destruction of cyclins)

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location of the cleavage in cytokinesis is determined by

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mitotic spindle

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astral microtubles

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carry signal to the cell cortex which specify the site of furrow formation

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spindle midzome

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generates signals that specify the site of cleavage furrow formation

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astral microtubles

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promote the relaxation of actin myosin bundles except at site encircling the midzone of the spindle

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for asymmetric division to occur

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the spindle poles must be located assymetrically in the mother

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syncytium

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A large mass of cytoplasm, surrounded by a plasma membrane and containing multiple nuclei. It is formed when nuclear division occur in the absence of cytoplasmic division

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cellularization

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A coordinated round of cytokinesis during which membranes form around each nucleus of a syncytium, resulting in a multicellular structure

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inactivation of _ occurs in late mitosis

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Cdks

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G1 phase in rapidly dividing cells

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  • APC/C activated by Cdc20
  • activation depend on M-Cdk
  • as M-cyclin levels fall, Cdc20-APC/C activity decreases
  • Cdks reactivated immediately after mitosis

embryonic cells with no G1 phase

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slower diving cells G1 phase

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  • APC/C activation prolonged by Cdh2
  • activation inhibited by M-Cdk
  • as M-cyclin levels fall, Cdh1-APC/C takes over for Cdc20-APC/C
  • Cdks remain inactive through late mitosis until early G1

cells with G1 phase

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17
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Cdk activity low after mitosis due to

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CKIs

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p21

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A CKI (Cdk inhibitor) whose transcription is stimulated by the gene regulatory protein p53. It binds to and inactivates G1/S-Cdk and S-Cdk, causing cells to arrest in G1.

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p53

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Gene regulatory protein activated by DNA damage, it functions to block progression through the cell cycle. Mutated forms of this protein are found in half of all human cancers.

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Mitogens

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Class of extracellular signal molecules which promote cell proliferation

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Growth factors

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Class of extracellular signal molecules which promote cell growth by triggering increased synthesis and decreased degradation of cellular molecules

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Survival factors

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Class of extracellular signal molecules which suppress apoptosis

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platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)

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A mitogen which stimulates the proliferation (as well as growth, survival, differentiation and migration) of a large number of cell types; it is released from blood clots to help stimulate cell proliferation during wound healing

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epidermal growth factor

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stimulates proliferation on a wide variety of cell types

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erythropoietin (EPO)

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stimulates proliferation of RBC precursors

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transforming growth factor beta

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inhibits cell division by blocking progression through cell cycle or promoting apoptosis

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G0

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State of withdrawal from the cell cycle, it may be transient or permanent (as with termially differentiated cells such as neurons)

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Myc

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Gene regulatory protein, its production increased in response to the MAP kinase cascade, which promotes cell-cycle entry by several mechanisms, including increased expression of genes encoding G1 cyclin

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Retinoblastoma protein (Rb) family

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Protein family which, in their unphosphorylated form, bind to and inhibit E2F gene regulatory factors, thus blocking entry into S-phase. This protein family was originally identified in children with an inherited form of eye cancer.

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_ inhibits Rb, causing Rb to

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G1-Cdk inhibits Rb, causing Rb to release and activate a group of gene regulator factors called E2F proteins

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DNA damage response with p53

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p53 = cell cycle arrest
* p53 usuallt bound and ub by Mdm2 and destroyed in proteasomes
* phosphorylation of p52 blocks Mdm2 binding, buildup of p53
* p53 binds p21 regulator region, stimulate expression of p21
* p21 inactivate G1/S-Cdk, arresting cells in G1

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DNA damage response with Chk1/Chk2

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  • M-Cdk initional inactive due to presence of inhibitory phosphates
  • Cdc25 remove inhibitory phosphates
  • when DNA damage, Chk1 and Chk2 phospho and inhibt Cdc25, blocking progression into mitosis
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replicative cell sencence

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Phenomenon in which cell proliferation halts after a finite number of cell divisions, apparently due to loss of telomeres

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Arf

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In response to abnormal mitogenic stimulation, this protein associates with Mdm2, preventing its binding and ubiquitylation p53, resulting in p53 accumulation and the triggering of p53-driven cell cycle arrest or apoptosis

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TOR

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A protein kinase activated by the PI 3-kinase cell growth pathway, it is an important component of growth regulatory pathways in all eukaryotes. It activates many targets that stimulate metabolic processes, including increased protein synthesis

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for a cell to maintain its size,

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it must double in size before dividing

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37
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nerve growth factor

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secreted by neuron to make neuron larger

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38
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A large multiprotein complex called ___________________ binds to replication origins throughout the cell cycle.

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origin replication complex

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The formation of prereplicative complexes is referred to as _____________________ since initiation of DNA synthesis may only occur at origins containing a pre-RC.

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licencing of replication

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When cells undergo nuclear division without cytoplasmic division a ___________________ is formed.

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syncytium

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41
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Extracellular signal molecule that stimulates cell proliferation.

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mitogen

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42
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Stage of mitosis when the mitotic spindle disassembles.

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telophase

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The assembly and contraction of the contractile ring is controlled by

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the small GTPase RhoA.

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APC/C is a member of the

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ubiquitin ligase family of enzymes.

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45
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The major components of the contractile ring are

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actin filaments and myosin II filaments.

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46
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The continued activation of APC/C into G1 is due to the binding of ___________________, a process which only occurs in the absence of M-Cdk activity.

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chd1

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47
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The_ triggers both anaphase and cytokinesis.

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inactivation of Cdks by the action of APC/C

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DNA replication begins at sites scattered at numerous locations on each chromosome called

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origins of replication.

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For full activation of a cyclin-Cdk complex, an enzyme called _______________ must phosphorylate an amino acid near the Cdk active site.

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Cdk-activating kinase

50
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For full activation of a cyclin-Cdk complex, an enzyme called _______________ must phosphorylate an amino acid near the Cdk active site.

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Cdk-activating kinase

51
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Complex of proteins that holds sister chromatids together until they segregate at anaphase.

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cohesion

52
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the duplication of centrosomes occurs in

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S phase

53
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At least half of all human cancers have mutations in .

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p53

54
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The _ ends of kinetochore microtubules are attached to the _ by the _

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plus, kinetochores of chromatids, Ndc80 complex

55
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Many human cells divide a finite number of times before going into permanent arrest, a phenomenon called _ which appears to be caused by the loss of telomeres.

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Replicative cell senescence

56
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Many human cells divide a finite number of times before going into permanent arrest, a phenomenon called _ which appears to be caused by the loss of telomeres.

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Replicative cell senescence

57
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Cell cycle checkpoint at which APC/C is activated.

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Metaphase-to-anaphase transition

58
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The assembly of pre-RCs is inhibited by _ and stimulated _

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Cdk activity (S phase to early mitosis), by APC/C activity (late mitosis to early G1)

59
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Nuclear envelope breakdown occurs during

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prometaphase

60
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cell death is important

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in both developing and adult tissues

61
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apoptosis

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  • cell remains intact
  • rapidly removed by phagocytes
  • no inflammation
  • more common
  • cell shrinkage
  • cytoskeleton collapse
  • mediated by proteolytic enzymes called caspases
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necrosis

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  • cell burst and spill content
  • inflamation
63
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necrosis

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  • cell swell and burst and spill content
  • inflamation
  • triggered by acute insult (e.g. trauma or ischemia)
64
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_ make apoptotic cells recognizable to

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macrophages

65
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caspases

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  • mediate apoptosis
  • proteases specialized
  • cys in active site, target Asp
66
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procaspases

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inactive soluable form of initiator caspases, need to be cleaved to become active caspases

67
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apoptotic signals trigger

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binding of caspases to proteins causing dimerization and acivation
* each caspase cleaves the protease domain of its dimer partner
* cleaved protease domains rearrange into a large and small subunit, active complex

68
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executioner caspases usually exist as

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inactive dimers

69
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executioner caspases are activated when

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cleaved by intiator caspases

70
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amplifying proteolytic cascade

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Self-amplifying and irreversible series of events which lead to cleavage of target proteins and programmed cell death

  • happens because one initiator caspase can activate many executioner caspases
71
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executioner capases cleave

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many specific target proteins leading to controlled cell death

72
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extinsic pathway of apoptosis activation

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  • triggered by binding of ligands from TNF family of signal proteins to death receptors of the TNF receptor family
  • intercellular death domain recruits FADD
  • FADD death effector domain binds to intiator caspase to form a death inducing signaling complex (DISC)
  • initiator caspases (procaspases) cleave one another to activate and trigger pathway
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FLIP inhibits

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DISC by binding in so inhibits extrinsic pathway of apoptosis

74
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intrinsic pathway of apoptosis is a response to

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injury, DNA damage, ROS, mitochondrial problems, etc

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intrinsic pathway of apoptosis

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  • internal stimuli and Bcl2 Bek and Bax release cytochrome C from IM space of mitochondria
  • cyt c binds Apaf1 and form apoptosome
  • each Apaf1 contains CARD which each CARD domain binds initiator caspase 9, activation of CARD domain
76
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anti apoptotic Bcl2 protein

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  • contain all four BH domains
  • Bcl2 and BclX
  • Proteins which inhibit apoptosis by binding to effector Bcl2 proteins and preventing their oligomerization within the outer mitochondrial membrane
77
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pro apoptotic Bcl2 proteins

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  • contain BH1, 2, 3 domains (Bax, Bak) or
  • only contain BH3 domain (Bad, Bid)
78
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Bek is located in _ and Bax in _ and both

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outer MM, cytosol and both trigger release of cyt C

79
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BH3 only proteins

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Pro-apoptotic Bcl2 proteins which bind to and inactivating anti-apoptotic Bcl2, thus allowing the oligomerization of effector Bcl2 proteins within the outer mitochondrial membrane
* promote apoptosis

80
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Bid

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  • links extrinsic and intrinsic pathways
  • extrincsic pathway active then capse 8 cleaves and activates Bid
  • Bid then inhibits anti apoptotic Bcl2 proteins and triggers intrinsic pathway
81
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Inhibitors of apoptosis (IAPs)

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Proteins which bind to and inhibit (or ubiquitylate) active caspases; they set an inhibitory threshold to prevent the accidental triggering of apoptosis due to spontaneous activation of initiator caspases

82
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_ must be inactivated for apoptosis to occur

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IAPs

83
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A large ring complex composed of cytochrome c-bound Apaf1, it recruits and activates initiator caspase-9.

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apoptosome

84
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An amplifying proteolytic cascade triggered in response to cell injury, DNA damage, lack of O2, lack of extracellular survival factors or presence of intracellular developmental signals.

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intrinsic pathway

85
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Proteases which cleave thousands of specific targets resulting in controlled cell death.

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executioner caspases

86
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An amplifying proteolytic cascade triggered in response to the binding of extracellular signal molecules to death receptors.

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extrinsic pathway

87
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This domain is missing from decoy receptors, making them incapable of initiating a proteolytic caspase cascade.

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death domain

88
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decoy receptors

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Cell surface receptors which bind death ligands but lack the cytosolic death domains required to trigger the extrinsic pathway of apoptosis

89
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Abnormal regulation of apoptotic programs often occurs in

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cancer cells.

90
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Abnormal regulation of apoptotic programs often occurs in

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cancer cells.

91
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Proteins which bind to and inhibit (or ubiquitylate) active caspases; they set an inhibitory threshold to prevent the accidental triggering of apoptosis due to spontaneous activation of initiator caspases.

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IAPs

92
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Domain found on both adaptor proteins and initiator caspases; it promotes their association within death-inducing signaling complexes (DISCs)

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death effector domain

93
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Homotrimeric transmembrane proteins which are members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor family.

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death receptors

94
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Proteolytic enzymes which are the intracellular mediators of apoptosis.

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caspases

95
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A type of programmed cell death which causes cells to swell and burst, spilling their contents into the extracellular matrix and potentially triggering immune and inflammatory responses.

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necrosis

96
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Decoy receptors…

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inhibit extrinsic apoptosis by competing with death receptors for ligand.

97
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Death-inducing signaling complexes (DISC) are formed during the _ pathway of apoptosis.

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extrinsic

98
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Domain found on Apaf1 adaptor proteins and initiator caspase-9, it mediates the recruitment of the initiator caspase into an apoptosome.

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CARD

99
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An intracellular blocker of apoptosis, it resembles an initiator caspase but lacks a proteolytic domain.

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FLIP

100
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Complex in which initiator caspases are brought into close proximity and activated in the extrinsic pathway of apoptosis.

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DISC

101
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The amplifying proteolytic caspase cascade begins with the self-activation of _ caspases.

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initiator

102
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cancer arises from mutations that cause a cell

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to become asocial and behave selfishly

103
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cancer cells two properties

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  • abnomal proliferation
  • invasiveness
104
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neoplasm

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A term meaning ‘new growth’, it describes a tumor arising from the growth and proliferation of a cell in defiance of normal controls

105
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benign tumor

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A tumor which is self-limiting in growth and non-invasive; it can be cured by removing or destroying the mass

106
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malignant tumor

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A tumor whose cells have acquired the ability to invade other tissues, an essential characteristic of cancer

  • form metastases
107
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metastases

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A secondary tumor that arose from a malignant primary tumor

108
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carcinoma

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Derived from epithelial cells, it is the most common type of human cancer

109
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adenocarcinoma

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Cancer derived from glandular tissue

110
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sarcoma

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Cancer derived from connective tissue or muscle cells

111
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leukemias

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Blood cancer derived from white blood cells and their precursors

112
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lymphoma

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Cancer derived from lymphocytes and found mainly within lymphoid organs

113
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tumors develop

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years before detection

114
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primary tumors

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  • located at original site where a mutated cell was formed
  • arise form proliferation ofo a single abnormal cell
115
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as cells of a primary tumor proliferate,

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more mutations accumulate

116
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for a single cell to give rise to a tumor, its aberration must be

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inheritable
* mutagenic changes to DNA sequence (caused by carcinogens)
* epigenetic changes
* inheritaed genetic effects (ex. impaired gene repair)

117
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if a single mutation could cause cancer

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we would all be yeeted

118
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tumor progression

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Process in which a mild disorder of cell behavior evolves gradually into a full-blown cancer

119
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chronic myelogenus leukemia (CML)

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Chronic overproduction of white blood cells due to the Philadelphia chromosome translocation

120
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clonal evolution

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repeated rounds of mutation, proliferation and natural selection
* as the number of tumor cells increase, so does the chance that at least one cell will undergo a change that favors it

121
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genetic instability results from

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mutations that interfere with replication and genome maintainance, therby increasing the mutation rate

122
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cancer cells transformed phenotype

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  • abnormal cell shape
  • abnormal cell motility
  • abnomral response to growth factors

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