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true or false: altered patters of gene expresson is a key feature of cancer

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true

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the disruption of epigenetic regulatory mechanisms is…. in cancer

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prevalent

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true or false: we can use altered patters of gene expression to stratify patients

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true

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aberrant gene expression can be driven by what

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specific genomic/epigenomic alterations

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different cell types are programmed to express….. set of genes

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different

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true or fa;se: different cell types are programmed to express different sets og genes but they share the same dn

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true

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The establishment of different cell
lineages and cell differentiation involves
different gene expression programmes
during….

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developmen

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The establishment of different cell
lineages and cell differentiation involves
different gene expression programmes
during development, which do not
depend on the DNA sequence itself, but
instead on …… factors.

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“epi”-genetic

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Epigenetics covers all ….

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Epigenetics covers all phenomena that
produces heritable changes in genome
function that do not affect the DNA
sequence

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The expressiom state of a gene is determined by what

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-the packaging or the accessibility of its dna in the chromatin
-by the presence of transcription factors and chromatin modifying enzymes

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accessibility of chromatin to transcriptional regulation is controlled by what?

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-modification to the DNA
-modification/rearrangement of nucleosomes

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true or false: dna is wrapped in nucleosome

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true

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what are the 2 subunits in each histone?

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-h2a. h2b
-h3 and h4

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true or false, the nucleosome has an S terminus

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false it has a N terminal tails of the histones protrude out of the nucleosome

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what does the pattern of histone modification signify

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the status of the chromatin (histone code)

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true or false: you can change the N terminal tails

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you can’t change the tails post transitionally

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The enzymes regulating the post-translational epigenetic modifications on histones have been categorized as…

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writers
erasers
readers
movers

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what do writers do

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-add modifications aka analogous to kinases
-ex: histone lysine methyltransferases (KMTs), and histone
acetyltransferases (HATs)

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what do erasers do

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-remove post translational modifications aka like phosphatases
ex:Histone lysine demethylases (KDMs) and histone deacetylases
(HDACs)

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what do readers do

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-are proteins that “read” histone modifications, such as acetylated or methylated residues.
* Bromodomain and chromodomain containing proteins
* Bromodomain recognize the acetylated lysines
* Chromodomain recognize methylated lysines

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what di movers do

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are chromatin-remodeling proteins that move nucleosomes and allow gene transcription.

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histones can be replaced by what

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minor variants

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what is the role of H3.3

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important in transcriptional activation

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how do histone variants differ

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from the canonical histone by just a few am,ino acid

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the minor histone variants are synthesized throughout when
interphase and are often inserted into previoulsy formed cjromatin by a remodeling complex
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true ot false: Epigenetic Modifications Annotate Functional Elements Across the Genome `
true they annotate non coding elements
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what do we use for mapping the epigenome
chip seq
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what does the chip seq pull down
the methyl group
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what are the active promoters of h3k4
h3k4me2 and me3
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what do you use to mapp the genome
atac seq
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what does atac seq do
assay for transposase accessible chromatin using sequencinf
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Epigenetic mechanisms act to change the accessibility of chromatin to transcriptional regulation via .....
modification to DNA or by modification / rearrangement of nucleosomes (histones).
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true or false: global dna methylation patterns vary between different cell types and different stages in devlopment
true
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what is the main role of dna methylation
dna silencing -Genomic imprinting * Differential expression of maternally and paternally inherited alleles * X-chromosome inactivation: Compensation for sex differences in gene dosage * The suppression of retrotransposon elements.
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dna methylayion is limited to ....
cytodines and occurs within the contect of the di nucleotide cg
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what so dnmt3a and B do
are de novo methyltransferases that they methylate CG dinucleotides * The DNMT1 enzyme maintains existing DNA methylation patterns -they are writers
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what does tet do
-TET (ten-eleven translocation) enzymes are methylcytosine dioxygenases (initiate demethylation -tis an eraser
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true or false: C→T mutations are rare in human DNA.
false: common
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what are c to t mutations
* Deamination of cytosine is a very common reaction in cells and normally produces uracil * Uracil is found in RNA, not DNA. * Cells are equipped with uracil DNA glycosylase that removes them as part of the base excision DNA repair pathway.
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Deamination 5-methylcytosine produces....
thymine
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DNA methylation is limited to what and occurs when
it is lomited to cytosines and occures within the context of the di nucleotide cg
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what are cpg islands
* have a G + C-rich base composition (65% vs 40% for the bulk genome) * high density of the dinucleotide CpG (5–10-fold higher than the bulk genome)
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how long are cpg islands
1kb or less
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where are usually cpg islands
50% of them are located close to known transcriptional start sites -25% are found in main gene body
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CGIs associated with transcriptional start sites remain ..... even when the gene is not being transcribed
unmethylated
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why are cpg islands importnat
because they represent areas of the genome that have been protected from the mutatong properties of methylation through evolutionary time aka deamination
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true or false: dna amination changes are observed in cancer
i dunno but methylation yes
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General .....methylation of the cancer genome
hypomethylation '
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focal hypermethylation/silencing of tsg promoters, what is there?
CpG island methylator Phenotype (CIMP)
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direact mutagenesis of .... containinh sequences of deamination
5mc
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Changes in the chromatin structure are dependent of changes ......
in DNA methylation, histone modification and the positioning of nucleosomes
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what are oncogenes
dominantly acting cancer genes that resut from an activating mutation in one allele of a cellular proto-concogene
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oncugenes are often activated by loss or gain of function
gain of funstion
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why are oncogenes over expressed
due to gene amplification
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what is epigenic enhancer hijacking
Activated by structural variants that reposition a transcriptionally silenced gene so that it comes under the control of active regulatory elements
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what are tumor suppressors
recessive acting cancer genes in which the inativation of both alleles promotes cell proliferation or inhibits apoptosis -can be mutations, deletions, dna methylation or combination
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true or false: a big number of single nucleotide variants are driver mutations
false it is a small number
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single nucleotide variants can driver mutations, are they positively or negatively selected
positively because they confer proliferative advantage to cancer cells
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name one way to detect cancer driver genes
you look at the genome of those affected vs not and see which is the most mutated
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missence vs truncated which is is a driver and a suprssor
-missense: driver -trunctative: suppresive
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IDH1 mutation is sufficient to establish what
the glioma hypermethylator phenotype
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IDHD1 is involved in which process
-the TCA DH1/IDH2 cancer-associated mutations are specific missense mutations producing mutant enzymes that convert 2-oxo-glutarate (produced by the normal allele) to 2-hydroxyglutarate.
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what does 2-hydroxyglutarate do
2-hydroxyglutarate inhibits multiple enzymes that depend on 2-oxoglutarate as a cofactor and work in epigenetic modification, including certain DNA demethylases, such as TET2, and various histone demethylases. That can cause reprogramming of the cell to make it less differentiated
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what are copy number variants useful for
to detect cancer, more copy number variants= cancer
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if there is a gain of copy in someone that has a tumor what does it mean and deletions too
-more cpoies= oncogene -less copies= supressor
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true or false: tumor genome is not the same as the reference genome
true * Copy number gains can be incorporated into the Genome (ie. Tandem duplications) * However, many high-level amplifications occur on circular extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA)
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what does circular ecdna promote
accessible chromatin and high oncogene expression
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true or false: half of human cancer mutations harbor mutations in chromatin related proteins
true
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what do malignat cells exhibit
* Genome-wide alterations in DNA methylation * Chromatin structure * Regulatory element activity * Deranged developmental programs - a differentiation block or epigenetic reprogramming
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driver mutations in h3.3 and chromatin remodeling genes are in which canver
paediatric glioblastoma
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what is chondroblastoma and giant cell tumor og bone have for mutatins
h3f3a and h3f3b mutation
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Mutations in histone H3.3 (encoded by H3F3A or H3F3B) commonly occur at three residues: ....
K27, K36 and G34.
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H3.3-K27M and H3.3-K36M mutations are dominant ...... and reduce the genome-wide ....... of H3K27 and H3K36, respectively
H3.3-K27M and H3.3-K36M mutations are dominant negative and reduce the genome-wide methylation of H3K27 and H3K36, respectively
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H3.3-G34R and H3.3-G34V mutations reduce the levels of ..... on the same or nearby nucleosomes
H3K36me3
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The ...... chromatin Remodeling Complex is altered across many cancer types
h* >20% of all cancers harbour mutations in SWI/SNF-encoding genes
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how many genes encoding for the swi/snf family are mutated in cancer
9
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Mutations in specific SWI/SNF genes are enriched in particular cancer types, which suggests .......
-differential roles for individual components -The tumour-suppressor activity is most likely attributable to their roles in facilitating transcription factor function, which is central to cell-fate differentiation.
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true or false: chromatin remodelers are multi subunit complexes
true
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what do chromatin remodelers use
use the energy from atp hydrolysis to reposition, eject, slide ot alter the composition of nucleosome
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what do chromatin remodelers do
allow access to dna binding proteins and the transcriptional machinery to dna in order to facilitate gene expression
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true or false:swi/snf and pcr complex help eachother
nah they probs fuck eachother up
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Noncoding mutations in regulatory elements can lead to .....
the aberrant expression of oncogenes, transcription factors and chromatin regulators resulting in aberrant gene expression
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true or false: non coding regulatory elements harbor a larger fraction of somatic mutations
true
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is tert coding or non coding
non coding involved in mutations in human melanoma, glioblastoma, oligodendroglioma
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recurrent non coding u1 snrna mutations drive what
cryptic splicing in shh medulloblastoma
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true or false: Noncoding enhancers outside of oncogenes ( ie. MYC, MYCN, AR, KLF5, and EGFR) are always selectively amplified with their respective oncogenes
false it is with or eithout with: myc, mycn without myc too often just duplicated
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what can enhancer hijacking events explain
aberrant gene expression patterms
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true or false: tads interact with eachother
false they interact with themselves but not eachother
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explain chromatin 3d thing
idsabfyrgaofao
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enhancer hijacking activated wich family in oncogenes in meduloblastoma
GFI1
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can you duplicate an enhancer in cancer
yeah especially in tads, you can delete,
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...... Duplication is highly recurrent in Group 4 Medulloblastoma
SNCAIP
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true or false, enhanver hijacking events are common
true
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what does ecdna do
enables distal dna interactions
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