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exam 3b Lecture 28 Flashcards

1
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How is skeletal muscle cell specialized?

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Myoblasts fuse to produce syncytia and bundles of aligned myofibrils

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Syncitium

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Multinucleated cell

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What makes up skeletal muscle cell?

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Sarcolemma, mitochondria and myofibrils

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What is contractile unit in myofibril?

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Sarcomere

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Structure of sarcomere

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Z discs on outside, positive on outside ends; light bands on outside, dark on inside, M line in middle. Thick filament is myosin and thin filament is actin.

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How is myosin held?

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By connection to large protein called titin.

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Length of sarcomere

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2.2 micrometers

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what end of actin filament attaches to z disc of sarcomere?

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Positive end

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When end of actin filament is towards middle?

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Minus end

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What caps the actin filament at the z disc?

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Cap Z

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To which protein is myosin (thick filament) attached?

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Titin

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What is thin filament?

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Actin

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13
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Where does myosin switch polarity?

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At M line

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Nebulin

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Enormous protein that influences precise length of each thin filament. Consists almost entirely of a repeating 35 aa actin-binding motif. Stretches from the z disk toward the minus end of each thin filament, which is capped and stabilized by tropomodulin.

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What coats actin filament besides nebulin?

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Tropomyosin and troponin

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Tropomodulin

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Caps the minus end of the actin filaments and capZ anchors plus end at the Z disc, which also contains alpha-actinin.

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In sliding filament model of muscle contraction, what is contracting? Towards what is there movement?

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Sarcomere is contracting, not filaments. Movements towards plus ends at z disc.

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18
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What two components regulate myosin cycle in a muscle cell?

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum and t-tubule

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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Specialized ER that surrounds each myofibril

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T-tubule

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Invagination of plasma membrane. Makes close contact with SR.

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What kind of channel is on T-tubule membrane? How is it gated?

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Dihydropyridine receptor (L-type Ca2+ channel). It is voltage gated.

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What makes up lumen of T-tubule?

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Extracellular space

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What is between the T-tubule and the SR membrane?

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Cytosol

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24
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What receptor is on SR membrane?

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Ryanodine receptor

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What happens to ryanodine receptor when L-Channel is opened and activated by calcium?

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The conformation of the ryanodine receptor changes so that calcium ion can escape SR and go into cytosol.

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What drives the opening of the L-channel and the release of calcium ion from SR?

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Action potential

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27
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How long is distance between T-tubule membrane and SR membrane?

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35nm

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how does ryanodine receptor activate under positive feedback?

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Released Ca2+ feeds back to ryanodine receptor to release more calcium ion.

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How are skeletal and heart muscle different when it comes to ryanodine receptor activity?

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Skeletal muscle has physical interaction of l chanel with ryanodine receptor cause calcium ion release. In heart muscle, calcium ion influx through dihydropyridine receptor activates the ryanodine receptor to release Ca2+

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Where are troponin complex and tropomyosin located on actin filament?

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Along the actin filament.

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What makes up troponin complex?

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polypeptides ICT. Troponin I binds to actin as well as to troponin T. In a resting muscle, the troponin I-T complex pulls the tropomyosin out of its normal binding groove into a position along the actin filament that interferes with the binding of myosin heads, thereby preventing any force-generating interaction. When Ca2+ level is raised, troponin C, which binds up to four molecules of Ca2+, causes troponin I to release its hold on actin. This allows tropomyosin molecules to slip back into their normal posotion so that the myosin heads can walk along actin filaments with calmodulin.

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32
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What does each tropomyosin molecule have?

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Seven evenly spaced regions with similar amino acid sequences, each of which is thought to bind to an actin subunit in the filament.

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33
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What pumps Ca2+ back into SR?

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ATPase pump

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34
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Mechanics of excitation-contraction coupling. How does acethycholine work?

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Acetylcholine opens gated channel, Na+ ions enter cell, depolarize membrane. Action potential throughout plasma membrane and T-tubules by voltage-gated Na+ channels. Dihydropyridine receptor activates ryanodine receptor, which releases Ca2+ into cytosol.

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Difference between resting and activated neuromuscular junction.

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Resting : resting nerve terminal, acetylcholine within vesicle at terminal. Voltage gated calcium channels closed, acethylcholine gated cation channel closed, voltage gated sodium channels closed, dihydropyridine receptor closed and ryanodine receptor closed. Activated: nerve impulse travels down axon to terminal. Acetylcholine neurotransmitter expelled via vesicle to cytosol, where it activates a channel dependent on acetylcholine, which opens. Sodium goes through channel and polarizes cell. Voltage gated calcium channel opens (L channel), opens ryanodine receptor so calcium ion leaves SR and goes into cytosol.

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36
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Four classes of muscle cell of a mammal

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Heart muscle cell, smooth muscle cell, skeletal muscle cell, myoepithelial cell

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37
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What coordinates heart muscle contractions?

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Gap junction connections between cells

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38
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Difference between heart muscle cells and skeletal muscle cells?

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Heart muscles are single cells with single nucleus. Both have sarcomeres and striated appearances. Both joined by end to end junctions.

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Smooth muscle cells

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Not striated. Belong to connective-tissue family and are closely related to fibroblasts. Involuntary muscle. Actin/myosin, but doesn’t use troponin. Ca2+ activates calmodulin, wchih activates myosin light chain kinase, which regulates myosin assembly.

40
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How is myosin dependent contraction regulated in smooth muscle/nonmuscle cells?

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Not through troponin, but calmodulin and kinase.

41
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How do calcium ion levels rise in smooth muscle?

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Via signaling through GPCRs (peptide hormone signals) to increase Phospholipase C, IP3. Calcium ion channels on cell surface responde to voltage changes or chemical signals.

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How does calcium ion work with calmodulin?

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It activates calmodulin, which activates myosin light chain kinase, allowing it to phosphorylate myosin, promoting assembly of bipolar filaments

43
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How do myosin and actin filaments slide?

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Myosin filaments slide antiparallel arrays of actin filaments to contract the cell.

44
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How does myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) work?

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Controlled phosphorylation by MLCK of one of the two light chains on non-muscle myosin II has at lease two effects. It causes a change in the conformation of the myosin head, exposing actin binding site, and it releases the myosin tail from a sticky patch on the myosin head, thereby allowing the myosin molecules to assemble into short, bipolar, thick filaments.

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How does listeria bacterial pathogen enter host cell and move inside it without myosin motor force?

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By phagocytosis, and then it escapes the endocytic vesicle and takes advantage of actin assembly by host cell to move within cytosol. It nucleates actin and assembles actin tail that makes it motile.

46
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What four purified proteins are needed to reconstitute listeria motility?

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Actin, Arp 2/3 complex, capping protein, and cofilin.

47
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What activates Arp 2/3 complex from bacteria?

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The ActA protein on bacterial surface.

48
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How do filaments grow from bacteria?

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On their plus end until capped by capping protein.

49
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What recycles actin?

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Cofilin, which enhances depolymerization at the minus end of the filaments. Polymerization is then focused at the rear surface of the bacterium, propelling it forward.

50
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Examples of cell migration and chemotaxis

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Fibroblasts migrate in connective tissue; white blood cells move toward sites of bacterial infection; neural crest cells migrate during development; axonal growth cones are guided by extracellular signals; cancer cells migrate during metastasis; amoebae crawl toward a food source

51
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Two types of signal molecules

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Diffusible signals and nondiffusible signals such as extracellular matrix

52
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What do signaling factors do?

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Bind to receptors leading to activation of G-proteins in the Rho family, like Rac, Rho, Cdc42.

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Three types of actin arrays in crawling cells

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Contractile bundles, gel-like networks and tight parallel bundles

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Contractile bundle

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Example: stress fiber. Antiparallel arrangement of F-actin interspersed with myosin II filaments that contract the actin filaments

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Gel-like network

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Example: cell cortex. Network of F-actin cross-linked with filamin.

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Tight parallel bundle

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Example: filopodium. Parallel F-actin bundle cross-linked with Fimbrin crosslinks.

57
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Three steps of crawling cell motility

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Protrusion at the leading edge, attachment, contraction at the trailing edge

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Components responsible for leading edge protrusion

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Filopodium, lamellipodium, pseudopodium

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Protrusion does what

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Edge moves forward and stretches actin cortex. Actin assembly at leading edge “pushes” out membrane. Plus ends are oriented at plasma membrane.

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During protrusion, what aids disassembly of F-actin at minus ends?

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Cofilin.

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What does actin network exhibit during protrusion?

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Treadmilling

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How does PM enlarge at leading edge?

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Secretions of membrane vesicles enlarge PM.

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How do monomers of actin disassembled get to plus end?

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They diffuse

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What does Arp2/3 complex do during protrusion?

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It mediates nucleation at the front. Newly nucleated actin filaments are attached to the sides of preexisting filaments, primarily at a 70 degree angle.

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Focal adhesions

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Dynamic assemblies of structural and signaling proteins that link the migrating cell to the extracellular matrix

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Contraction at trailing edge

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Myosin II propels cell forward to relax some of the tension caused by attachment and traction

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How does cell anchor to substrate?

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Stress fibers (bundles of actin filaments in cells) interact with integrins at focal contacts

68
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Where can stress fibers be anchored?

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At one end or both ends by focal contacts

69
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How can antiparallel actin filaments contract?

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Via myosin II filaments

70
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Integrins

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Transmembrane heterodimers that link the extracellular matrix to the cytoskeleton.

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Integrins made of

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Composed of two noncovalently associated glycoprotein subunits called alpha and beta. Span cell membrane with short c-terminal tails and large n-terminal extracellular domains

72
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What do focal adhesions interacting with stress fibers provide?

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Attachments to the extracellular matrix

73
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What interactions link actin cytoskeleton to the substratum?

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Interactions between actin-binding adaptor proteins and integrins

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Rho protein signals

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Local regulation of actin cytoskeleton by external signals. Closely related monomeric GTPases thar are members of the Rho protein family – Cdc42, Rac, and Rho. Act as switches that cycle between an active GTP bound state and an inactive GDP bound state.

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Cdc42

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Activation of this protein on inner surface of PM triggers actin polymerization and bundling to form filopodia/ Fromin activation.

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Rac

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Activation of Rac promotes actin polymerization at the cell periphery, leading to the formation of sheetlike lamellipodial extensions (Arp 2/3 activation)

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Rho

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Activation of Rho promotes both the bundling of actin filaments with myosin II filaments into stress fibers and the clustering of integrins and associated proteins to form focal adhesions. Fromin activation.

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How are derivatives of phosphotidylinositol important in signaling pathways?

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Phosphoinositides derived through reversible phosphorylation. PI(3,4,5)P4 serves as docking site for various intracellular signaling proteins. PIP3 second messenger provides a docking site for proteins with pleckstrin homology domains (PH). Phosphorylation reversed by PTEN phosphatase.

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Two pathways in which Rac-GTP creates branched actin web in lamellipodia?

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a. WASp family / Arp 2/3 (branching nucleator)/ lamellipodia b. PAK / filamin (web cross-linker) / lamellipodia

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Two pathways in which Rac-GTP leads to less stress fiber formation

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a. PAK, inhibits MHC, which leads to decreased myosin activity, which leads to less stress fiber formation b. PAK inhibits MLCK, which leads to decreased myosin activity, which leads to less stress fiber formation

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Two pathways through which Rho-GTP increases stress fibers and lead to integrin clustering and focal adhesion formation

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a. Rho-dependent kinase (Rock) promotes LIM kinase, which inhibits cofilin/ Rock inhibits MLC phosphatase and promotes MLC(P), which leads to increased myosin activity, which leads to more stress fibers and focal adhesion formation b. Rho-GTP stimulates formins, which stimulate actin bundle growth, which stimulates more stress fibers and focal adhesion formation

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in chemotactic signaling, where are G protein couple receptors found in dictyostelium and neutrophils?

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On all sides of cell

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In dictyostelium and neutrophils, where do signal molecules bind GPCR receptors?

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On one side of the cell

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What do G protein beta gamma subunits activate?

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PI3 kinase

85
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What does PI3kinase do when activated?

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Converts PtdIns(4,5)P2 to PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 in the PM

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What binds PI(3,4,5)P3?

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Plekstrin homology (PH) domain proteins (like RacGEF)

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What happens when Rac is activated?

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Stimulates WASp, stimulates Arp2/3 assembly of actin networks to extend leading edge

88
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What is PTEN?

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A 3’ phosphatase

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What does PTEN do in chemotactic signaling?

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PTEN remains at the sides and back and keeps PI(3,4,5)P3 signal at the front

90
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What molecules act as signals for dictyostelium?

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Folic acid, cAMP

91
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What molecules act as signals for neutrophils?

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N-formylmethionine peptides

92
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What rearranges during phagocytosis?

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Actin cytoskeleton

93
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What does phagocytic white blood cell wrap around bacterium?

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Pseudopod grows out and around bacterium. Peudopod made of actin filament network.

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