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1
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There are 2 types of exocytosis

  1. What is constitutive secretion?
  2. What is regulated secretion?
A
  1. A constant stream of transport vesicles moving from the trans- face (exit face) of the golgi network to the plasma membrane. =default pathway
  2. Present only in specialised cells like pancreas. Secretory cells make cargoes like hormones. Sorted into secretory vesicles. Accumulate near membrane. Don’t exit until signals tell them to.
2
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  1. Constitutive exocytiosis supplies the PM with new proteins and lipids made in the ER. What does this allow?
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  • Plasma membrane growth before cell division
  • Protein secretion
3
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Regulated secretion only release content after stimulation by extracellular signals. What’s the advantage of this?

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A rapid response. The vesicles have already been made and ar ready to go, just need signals.

4
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If transport vesicles are constantly fusing with the plasma membrane, why doesnt it get bigger?

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It maintains homeostasis- membrane components are also removed by endocytosis. This balances it out so the PM stays roughly the same size.

5
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Where does the endocytic pathway deliver lipids and proteins to? (so they can be re-used)

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The endosomes

6
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What’s the main sorting point in endocytosis?

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The endosomes

7
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How is an endocytic vesicle formed?

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A portion of the PM buds inwards and pinches off to form an endocytic vesicle

8
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What happens to the material taken up by endocytosis?

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The material taken up is eventually delivered to the lysosome and degraded.

9
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What is pinocytosis?

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The non-selective uptake of fluid and small particles by endocytic vesicles.

10
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What is receptor-mediated endocytosis?

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Uses cell-surface receptors for uptake of specific components. (up to 1000x more selective)

11
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What is an important example of receptor-mediated endo.?

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Uptake of cholesterol by animal cells

12
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How is cholesterol transported in the blood?

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Cholesterol is extremely insoluble so transported in blood as low density lipoproteins. (LDLs) secreted by the liver.

13
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How does cholesterol enter cells and where does it go in the cell?

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The LDL binds to recpetors. Then the LDL/receptor complexes are endocytosed and delivered to endosomes.

14
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What can cause atherosclerosis and how is it treated?

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Defective LDL receptors, cholesterol accumulates. Have to take statins.

15
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Why does the LDL dissociate from its receptor in the endosome?

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The pH becomes more acidic in the endosome. So detaches from receptor.

16
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After LDLs detach from their receptors, where do they go?

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After release, LDLs are delivered to the lysosome, where they are degraded and the cholesterol is released to the cytosol for membrane synthesis.

17
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What happens to the LDL receptors after dissociation?

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The LDL receptors are recycled to the cell surface.

18
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What is it about endosomes which makes most receptors release their cargo?

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Their acidic environment

19
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After cargo release where do most receptors go?

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Recycled to the plasma membrane

20
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Where do the other recpetors go- the ones that don’t go to the plasma membrane?

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Some are sorted to the lysosomed and degraded

21
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What is transcytosis?

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Other receptors are directed to a different domain of the PM and move their cargo from one extracellular space to another.

22
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What is in lysosomes?

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About 40 hydrolytic enzymes which can degrade proteins, DNA etc.

23
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What pH are the lysosomes at? WHat does this mean for the enzymes?

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pH 5. So if they leak out into the cytosol they are inactive. (cytosol pH 7)

24
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How do the lysosomes maintain their pH?

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They use ATP to pump protons into the lysosomes

25
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How do the lysosomal enzymes end up in the lysosome?

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Lysosomal enzymes are made at the ER. They follow the normal exocytic route until they reach the trans-golgi network.

26
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How do lysosomal enzymes know not to be secreted?

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They’re specifically directed to lysosomes via the receptor mediated sorting of mannose-6-phosphate tags. added to the N-linked glycans.

27
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WHat is phagocytosis?

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Uptake of large particles or microorganisms by specialised cells like macrophages

28
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What is autophagy?

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Removal of obsolete parts of the cell and damaged organelles such as mitochondria

29
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What happens in autophagy?

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Obsolete bits of cell are surrounded by membrane from a donor organelle to form- autophagosomes

30
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What do autophagosomes fuse with? What’s this catalysed by?

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They then fuse with the lysosome to degrade cellular components (mitochondria).

Catalysed by SNARE proteins

31
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WHat is characteristic of autophagosomes because of the way theyre made?

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The double membrane

32
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where are the different lipids in the plasma membrane made?

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The ER

33
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WHere are the lipids for the PM modified?

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The Golgi- e.g. glyosylation

34
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How are they distributed in the plasma membrane?

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Distributed asymmetricallu- almost all glycolipids will face outside of cell.

35
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Which enzymes in the Golgi selectively redistribute lipids to make them asymmetrical?

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Flippases

36
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What are integral membrane proteins?

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Protein made of ~20 hydrophobic amino acids that fold into an alpha-helix. They cross the bilayer once or more.

37
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How else can proteins be attached to the membrane? (other than integral membrane proteins)

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Amphiphatic helix, liipid anchor or soluble protein that’s bound to an integral TMP. =peripheral protein.

38
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How do you remove:

  1. Peripheral proteins from the membrane?
  2. How would you remove integral proteins?
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  1. Disrupting protein-protein interaction using pHor salt
  2. Only by solubilising the whole membrane using a detergent