FINAL Flashcards
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Cytological/Microscopic Observations of Cell Cycle
Cells at M Phase are easily identifiable
Cells have doubling times of about 20 hours. At any moment, 5% of cultured cells are at M phase suggesting that M Phase takes one hour to complete
What can the S Phase be labeled with? What does this tell us?
The S Phase can be labeled with Thymidine. The cells in S Phase can be identified now that Thymidine marks S Phases. The % of cells in S Phase (labeled) X length of one cell cycle. Determined that S Phase is 6 hours.
How is a Flow Cytometer measuring DNA cell contents?
DNA is labeled with fluorescence, like DAPI. Graph can be made to determine how many number of cells are in certain sets of DNA.
Cdc
Temperature sensitive mutants – can’t pass certain stages, like G1. Regardless, cells continue to grow.
Cell Fusion Experiment
Mitotic cell and G2 cell –> Induced condensation of chromosomes in G2 cells. Concluded that there is a factor in M Phase (MPF) cells’ cytosol that induces chromosome condensation and nuclear envelope breakdown.
Mitotic cyclins rise during ___ phase and drop during ___
Interphase; Anaphase
It oscillates
What is MPF composed of?
cdk1/cdc2
cyclin B
What is unique about yeast cell division
yeasts use cdk1 for their whole cycle
> > > Cyclins and CDKs of different cell cycle phases
G1 cyclin –> G1 CDK
G1/S cyclin –> G1/S-CDK
S cyclin –> S-CDK
M cyclin –> M-CDK/cdc2/CDK1
Regulating CDK Activity via Activating Phosphorylation
2-Step Process:
1) Cyclin partially activates CDK by moving T-loop
2) CAK phosphorylates CDK
Regulatory CDK Activity via Inhibitory Dephosphorylation
Wee1 Kinase: adds another phosphate, which inhibits CDK
CDC25 Phosphatase: removes second phosphate, activating CDK
Which AA are often phosphorylated in CDK
Serine and Threonine
Activating M-CDK
CDK1/CDC2 + M-cyclin –> inactive M CDK –Wee1 and CAK–> inactive M CDK (includes active and inactive phosphates) –CDC25+P–> Active M CDK (includes just active phosphate) –> Positive Feedback activates CDC25 (by phosphorylating it) and inhibits Wee1 (so that it can’t inactive phosphorylate )
CKI, and its example
CDK Inhibitor
P27 binds to CDK-cyclin (MPF) complex, inactivating it
Can act as a tumor suppressor
M Phase dependent events that are triggered by MPF
1) Chromatin condensation: Phosphorylation of condensin
2) Nuclear envelope breakdown: Phosphorylation of lamin
3) Golgi and ER Fragmentation: Phosphorylation of GM130
4) Spindle Formation: Phosphorylation of MTs, causing MT instability
How Phosphates affect Lamin
Phosphorylated Lamins: depolymerization (like in prometaphase)
Dephosphorylated Lamins: polymerization (like in telophase)
START
A point of no return for a cells to enter the cell cycles. The key regulatory point in the cell cycle before cells enter mitosis.
Exists in G1 is regulated by CDC2 (think back to temperature sensitive mutant)
LOOK AT SLIDE How is START regulated?
Cyclins regulate CDK deployed throughout cell cycle
RB (retinoblastoma) proteins
A tumor suppressor that prevents cells from entering the cell cycle.
Rb binds to E2F (a TF responsible for G1/S cyclin and S cyclin production), so that S CDK is not activated, and thus S phase can’t be entered.
Pathway:
Mitogen –> MAPK –> Myc –> G1-CDK –> Rb+2P –> activates E2F –> S cyclin/ G1/S cyclin –> S-CDK –> DNA synthesis
Ubiquitilation
E1, E2, and E3 are responsible for consecutively phosphorylating a protein. Upon polyubiquitlation, the compound will be targeted for degradation
What is CDC6?
In G1, it binds to origin of replication (ORC) and recruits needed pre-replicative complex and proteins, like helicase.
Causes S-CDK firing.
DNA replication needs the cdc6 to recruit but also cannot start replication until the cdc6 is removed.
In order to ensure only one cell cycle, CDC6 will be ubiquitlized for degradation.
Proteolysis of regulatory proteins to control cell cycle
1) SCF: has an F-box, which ubiquitizes CKIs, in order to initiate S-Phase
2) APC/C binds to CDC20, activating APC/C, which ubiquitilizes M Cyclin. Degradation of cyclin, causes cell to enter Anapahase
Timeline of cyclin and CDKs
MPF/M‐Cdk is only activated at the end of G2 phase, and is inactivated in anaphase.
Cyclin-B/M‐cyclin accumulates during interphase, and is degraded in anaphase.
Anaphase‐promoting complex(APC)/cyclosome marks cyclin-B for destruction.
How anaphase occurs?
M-CDK and CDC20 activate APC/C
APC/C causes the ubiquitylation and destruction of securing, which frees separase.
Separase is activated.
Separase destroys cohesin (which normally keeps chromosomes bound together.
Anaphase begins