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1
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How is membrane integrity maintained?

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non-covalent interactions between proteins and lipids

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What are the 3 main classes of membrane lipids?

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phosphoglycerides, sphingolipids and sterols

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Which class of membrane lipid is most common?

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phosphoglycerides

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How long is the the fatty acid chain of a phospholipid?

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6-20Carbon

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What factors determine the type of spontaneous aggregation of free lipids?

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temperature, length, unsaturation

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What molecules are contained in lipid rafts?

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cholesterol, glycosphingolipids, sphingomyelin;

GPI anchor and acylated proteins

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What processes are lipid rafts involved in?

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signalling, endocytosis, cholesterol transport

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How are excess lipids stored?

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droplets of triacylglycerides and cholesterol esters with proteins targetted for degradation

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What are the 3 types of membrane protein?

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Integral, peripheral, lipid-anchored

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What secondary structure do integral proteins consist of?

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alpha-helices

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how do peripheral proteins attach to the membrane?

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I motif binds polar phospholipid heads- low mobility

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what are peripheral proteins used for?

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regulate signalling subunits

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how are lipid anchored proteins attached to membrane?

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covalent bond from N-glycine to acyl of palmitate/mystrate

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what does IFABP do?

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binds fatty acid precursors in epithelium for transport to sER

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what do flippases do?

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produce asymmetry between leaflets

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what are the classes of flippases?

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specific, energy independant, energy dependant inward and outward

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where are energy independant flippases located?

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ER

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18
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What are energy dependant outward flippases know as?

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ABC

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What are inward flippases know as?

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P4P

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what are the types of specific flippase?

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PE, PC, PS, cholesterol

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how are membrane lipids trafficked to their desination?

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vesicle integration, transfer proteins or vesicle contact mediated by proteins

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what is the N-terminal signal sequence for ER translocation?

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N, +, 6-12 hydrophobes, = 16-30 variable total

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What does the SRP consist of?

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300nt, 6 protein RNP, p54 binds hydrophobes

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When does SRP and SPRr hydrolyse GTP?

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when bound to translocon for release

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How are soluble proteins targetted to the ER?
translation by rER or free ribosome, SRP binds N terminal sequence for stalling, receptor, sec61translocon
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what is the structure of the sec61 translocon?
3 proteins, alpha cross linking. aligns to 60S ribosome
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what purpose does Sec63.BiP have?
hydrolysis of ATP-ADP binds BiP for unidirectional transport
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what are the 2 types of sequence recognised for cotranslational insertion into ER membrane?
Intergral Signal Anchor, Stop-transfer anchor sequence
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what type of residues are targeted by the signal petidase?
small neutral residues G/C/A/T @-1, -3
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Which types of integral proteins are inserted into the ER with a signal sequence?
1,4,5
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which type of integral membrane protein is cleaved for transfer to existing glycosylphosphatidylinositol?
5
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Which side of the SA are positive residues?
cytoplasmic
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which PTM occurs in ER?
N-glycosylation, oligomerisation, folding, disulphide bond formation
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what functions does N-linked Glycosylation have?
folding, targeting, degradative protection, specificity of interactions
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What sequence is N-glycosylation bound to?
Asn-X(not Pro)-S/T-
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How is N-glycosylation produced?
cotranslational transfer from existing dolichol isoprene lipid by cleavage of pyrophosphate bond
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what is the structure of N-glycosylation?
2NAG-9 Mannose- 3 Glucose
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how are disulphide bonds formed?
sequential action of PDI, during or immediately after translation. recycled by Ero1,
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Which chaperones mediate folding?
PDI/ERp57, PPI, HSP/BiP, calnexin/calrexin for N-glycosylation
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Where do O-linked glycosylation and Proteolytic cleavage occur?
Golgi
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What structure does O-glycosylation have?
individual sugars to S/T, added using NMP/NDPs.
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what sequences are recognised for proteolytic cleavage?
Basic R/K pairs recognised by endoproteases
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What type of proteins mediate shedding?
ADAM family
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what does shedding produce?
soluble, extracellular/ectoproteins
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what types of modification are cytosolic/soluble proteins subject to?
lipid attachment: palmitoylation, prenylation, myristoylation
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what consensus sequence is targeted for myristoylation?
(N)-Met-Gly-2-3-4-5 2 not Pro/aromatic/charged 5 S/T/G/C/A/N
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what type of modification is myristoylation?
irreversible/covalent but stable, weak for transient signalling and membrane targetting
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when does myristoylation occur?
cotranslational, in cytoplasm
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Where is palmitoylation added to a protein?
cysteine near c terminus in no concensus sequence. Near TM domain
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how stable is palmitoylation?
rapid turnover for signalling and membrane trafficking
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what are the 2 types of prenylation?
C15 farnesylation, C20 geranyl geranyl
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what sequence does farnesyl target?
Cys-alipathic-alipathic-carboxylate
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what sequence does geranyl target?
CC or CXC
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when does prenylation occur?
In cytoplasm, PTM
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what sequence targets proteins to ER?
KDEL for luminal proteins
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what sequence is present on peroxisomal proteins?
SKL(C) also known as PTS1.
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Which receptors recognise peroxisomal proteins?
Pex5 in cytoplasm, Pex 14 receptor in membrane
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when are peroxisomal proteins folded?
before import
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what is the NLS?
7 residues at C terminal of K/R clusters
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When are nuclear proteins folded?
after import
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what is the mitochondrial targetting sequence?
R/K, 20-50 lacking D/E, hydrophobe
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Which receptors are involved in mitochondiral targetting?
TOM20/22 for unfolded cytoplasmic proteins, TOM 40 in outer membrane, TIM44/23/17
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what are the 2 destinations of vesicles containing proteins from Golgi?
secretory granules for regulated storage/exocytosis, constitutive exocytosis.
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how is the destination of proteins within vesicles dictated?
type of membrane
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what is the process of vesicle formation?
adaptor protein-mediated coating, content sorting, bussing, dynamin mediated fission, uncoating, docking
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What does dynamin fission require?
GTP or ATP
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Which molecules mediate docking of vesicles?
SNAREs e.g. Sec1/Munc-18
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what does adaptor protein 1 do?
mediate TGN- endosome movement
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what does AP2 do?
interacting with Y motifs for endocytosis with clathrin
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where is AP3 localised?
TGN-lysosomes
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which type of endocytosis is most common?
clathrin triskelion cage mediated
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which additional molecules are required for clathrin-endocytosis?
ephsin and amphipysin for curvature, AP2, dynamin
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what is the destination of receptors from endosomes?
Transferrin for iron recycled, LDL receptor recycled, LDL degraded, cholesterol used EGFr degraded to turn off
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how are receptors recycled from endocytosis?
using RabGTPase
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what is caveolin?
protein localised to lipid rafts with cholesterol for pits to mediate endocytosis
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how does macropinocytosis act?
cytoskeleton rearrangment into ruffles is coat independant thus low specificity
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What length is the STA?
22 residue helix
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What are the disulphide bonds of insulin?
1-4, 2-6 3-5

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