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L04: Cell Signalling And Cancer Flashcards

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What is intracellular signalling

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A set of events that occur inside a cell to a specific stimulus with a specific cellular response

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What events does cell signalling allow

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Survival
Proliferation
Differentiation
Apoptosis

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What are the signalling molecules that can trigger a intracellular response

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Hormone
Cytokines
Growth factors
Neurotranmistters

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What type of molecule binds to intracellular receptors

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Hydrophobic

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What type of molecules binds to cell surface receptors

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Hydrophilic

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Name an important cell surface receptor family

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Receptor tyrosine kinases

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Where are receptor tyrosine kinases bound to

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Single plasma membrane

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How many domains does receptor tyrosine kinase have

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Intracellular domain

Extracellular domain

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Where is the intracellular domain found

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Within the cytoplasm behind the plasma membrane

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Where is the extracellular domain found

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Outside the plasma membrane

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For all receptor tyrosine kinases which domain is the same

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Intracellular domain

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What is the intracellular domain of the receptor tyrosine kinase made of

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Tyrosine kinase domains

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What is the role of tyrosine kinase domain

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Phosphorylate target proteins

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Which domain of the receptor tyrosine kinase vary

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Extracellular domain

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If the extracellular domain of receptor tyrosine kinase vary what does this mean

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Different proteins can bind to it

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What are the 2 types of tyrosine kinase receptor transduction signalling pathway when signalling molecules interact with TPR

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1) mitogen activated protein (MAP) pathway

2) phosoptidylinositol (pi)-3 kinase pathway

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What is the main output of the MAP kinase pathway

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Cell growth (cell getting bigger)
Cell profileration (cell dividing in numbers)
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What happens to the TPR when a signalling molecule binds to it

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Dimerisation of receptor

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What happens when receptor dimerisation occurs

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Kinase domains of neighbouring receptors cross phosphorylate eachother on multiple tyrosine residues

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What is the phosphorylation of neighbouring receptors on tyrosine residues known as

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Auto phosphorylation

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What does autophosrylation creature

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High affinity for:
MAP pathway
PI-3 kinase pathway

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Which molecule for the MAP pathway recognises the phosphorylated tyrosine residues in TPR

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Grb-2

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What are the 2 domain of Grb-2

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SH2 domain

SH3 domain

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Which domain of grb-2 binds to the phosphorylated tyrosine resides

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SH2 domain

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What does the SH3 domain of the Grb-2 bind to
Protein called sos
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What does the grb-2 and sos complex enable
SOS to recruite and acitvate RAS
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What is RAS
A G protein with GTPase activity
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What is ras known as in cancer
Oncogene
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Where is ras attached to
The plasma membrane next to the TPR
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How does sos active RAS
SOS exchanges GDP (found in inactive ras) to GTP to activate ras
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What does active ras do
Activates RAF by inducing a conformation change to it
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When RAF is activated what does it do
Activates Mek by phosphorylating it
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What does active mek do
Active Erk by phosphorylation
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What does ERK do
Moves into the nucleus and phosphorylates proteins that include gene regulatory proteins that cause change in gene expression
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What are the genes active by Erk
``` C-jun C-fas C-MYC C-MYC Cyclin D ```
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What does ERK overall do
Cell proliferation and cell growth
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In normal conditions how is MAP kinase regulated
Switching acitvated TPR Inactivating ras Inactivate target proteins
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How is activated TPR switched off
By a protein protein tyrosine phosphotases
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How is active ras inactivated
Via ras GAPS
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How are target proteins inactivated
De phosphorylation by serine/threonine phosphatase
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What can happen for cancer to develop due to MAP pathway
Proteins can become permanent turned on
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What are the main outputs of PI-3kinase pathway
Cell survival | Cell growth/proliferation
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Which molecule of the PI-3 kinase pathway recognises the phosphorylated tyrosine residues on RTK
PI-3 kinase
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When PI-3 kinase binds to tyrosine residues what does it do
Become activated
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What does acitvated PI-3 kinase do
Phosphorylate PI(4,5)P2 TO (PI,3,4,5)P3
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Where is PI(4,5)P2 found
Attached to plasma membrane next to the RTK
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What happens when we have PI(3,4,5) P3
PDK1 and AKT proteins bind to it
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Which molecule binds to PI(3,4,5)P3 first
PDK1
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When PDK1 binds what happens to AKT that is also bound to another PI(3,4,5)P2
PI(3,4,5)P3 that had PDK1 bound to acitvates AKT by phosphorylating it
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What other molecule is AKT phosphorylated by
MTOR
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As a result of phosphorylating AKT what happens to it
It becomes active
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What does active AKT DO
Phosphorylate Bad
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What is the bad
A protein that bind to inactive apoptosis inhibitory protein
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What happens when active AKT phosphorylates BAD
Acitve apotosis inhibitory protein becomes released from bad and this prevents apoptosis i.e promote cell survival
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How is PI-3 kinase pathway regulated
Switch TKP De phosphorylate target proteins Remove phosphate from PI(3,4,5)P3
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How it active TKP swithched off
Protein tyrosine phosphatase
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How is target proteins de phosphorylated
Serine/threonine phosphatase
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What removes the phosphate from PI(3,4,5)P3
PTEN
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If the MAP and PI-3 kinase pathway is disrupted what can this lead to
Cell proliferation and cancer
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How can we treat people with cancer that have disrupted pathways of MAP or PI-kinase pathway
Personalised medicine
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What is HER2
Member of EGFR family (type of receptor tyrosine kinase)
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How does HERF2 usually work
Heterodimerise with another EGFR receptor in repsonse to the signalling molecule of EGF to activate the PI3 Kinase and MAP pathway
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What does dimerisation of EGFR lead to
Activation of MAP and PI-3 kinase pathway for cell survival and cell growth
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In cancer what can happen to HER2
Become over expressed
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Which type of cancer shows overexpression of HER2
Breast cancer
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In cancer with overexpression of HER2 what happens
Homodimerisation of HER2 (i.e phosphorylation of 2 HER2) which triggers cell growth and survival in the absence of EGF
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What personalised medicine can be used to prevent HER2 overexpression
Herceptin
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What does herceptin cause
HER2 degradation | Antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (APCC) response
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What patients can herceptin be used on
HER2 positive patients (not in HER2 normal patients)
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What is BRC-ABL
Oncogenic protein
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How is BCR-ABL formed
Translocation of chromosome 22 and 9
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Which cancer is BCR-ABL seen in
CML: chronic myelogenous
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In a normal cell what is ABL
A tyrosine kinase protein that promotes cell survival and growth by dimerising tyrosine residues on RTK and activate MAP and PI3 kinase
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What happens when BCR joins to ABL to form BCR-ABL
It promotes acitvation of ABL which goes onto dimerise tyrosine residues on RTK
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What type of personalised medicine can be used to target BCR-ABL
Imatinib
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What is the role of imatinib
Binds to kinase domain of ABL to prevent ATP binding cannot phosphorylate itself to cause downstream signalling

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