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1
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What is the signal for a protein to be sent back to the ER from the Golgi?

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A KDEL signal sequence

2
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What happens to to protein for it to be sent from the Golgi back to the ER?

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In the Golgi, a KDEL receptor acts as transmembrane linked between the KDEL signal sequence and COPI coat on the outside of the Golgi.
Protein sent back to ER.

3
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What change is there in pH between the ER and Golgi and why?

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ER 7.0
Golgi 6.5
Helps with protein transport

4
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How how proteins travel from the Golgi to the lysosomes?

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In vesicles

5
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What is the signal to send a protein to the lysosomes?

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Mannose-6-phosphate

6
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What pathway does a protein take to get from the Golgi to the lysosomes?

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The addition of a phosphate group to a mannose sugar in the golgi.
This binds to a M6P receptor on the trans Golgi and the protein is taken in a vesicle to the lysosome.
It’s acidic ph removes the phosphate and the receptor is recycled.

7
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What is I-cell disease?

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Deficiency of a key enzyme (N-acetyl glucosamine phosphotransferase).
Lysosomes become bloated with undegraded material.
An inherited a fatal disease.

8
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What is the signal to send a protein to the mitochrondria?

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Amphipathetic N-terminal signal (MTS)

9
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Explain the pathway a protein takes fro the golgi to the mitochrondria.

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Chaperone proteins in the cytoplasm keep the protein unfolded.
Two receptors to pass:
TOM on the outer membrane
TIM on the inner membrane
Once inside target sequence is cleaved, chaperones dissociate and protein can fold.

10
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Name a mitochrondrial diseases and how it affects the individual.

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Pyruvate Dehydrogenese Defiency
Mutation: Arg to Pro substitution
Proline is a helix breaking amino acid so can destabilise the protein.
Kreb’s cycle cannot occur and there is a lactic acid build up
Neurological problems

11
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What is the signal to take a protein to the nucleus?

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Nuclear localisation signal (NLS)

12
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How is a protein taken from the ER to the nucleus?

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A carrier protein importing binds to the protein cargo containing the NLS
It passes through the membrane receptor and inside, Ran-GTP binds to the importin and releases the cargo, which is then recycle in the cytoplasm.

13
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Name a disease affecting nuclear protein targeting.

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Swyer’s syndrome - loss of NLS determining Y protein - XY genotype but XX phenotype
Keri-Weell dyschodrosteosis - mutation of NLS leading to short stature and lack of skeletal development.