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What are the three main membrane internalisation methods?

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  • Phagocytosis: internalisation of particulate matter
  • Pinocytosis: invagination of plasma membrane to form a vesicle
    permits uptake of extracellular salutes
  • Endocytosis: selective internalisation of molecules into cell by binding to specific cell surface receptors
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What is meant by vascular transport?

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  • Membrane vesicles bud from donor organelle and are transported to destination where they fuse with recipient organelle
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What does REM stand for and give an example?

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  • Receptor mediated endocytosis

- Uptake of cholesterol

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How do clathrin vesicles form and how are they disassembled?

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  • Clathrin coated pits form spontaneously and bud off to form vesicles
  • Clathrin coated vesicles are uncoated by an ATP dependent uncoating protein
  • Clathrin triskelions are recycled back to for new clathrin coated pits
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What are the mutations affecting LDL receptors in hypercholesterolaemia?

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  • Normally binding receptor: no binding of LDL but still normal coated pits and internalisation
  • Non functioning receptor: no internalisation, LDL receptors found distributed over whole cell surface, deletion of C-terminal cytoplasmic domain prevents interaction with clathrin coat.
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Outline the receptor mediated endocytosis of LDLs and where do they end up?

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  • LDL moves into coated pit randomly
  • Coated pit buds off to form coated vesicle (clathin cage formation)
  • Uncoating of vesicle by ATP dependent uncoating protein
  • Enters endosome
  • Either moves to Golgi or lysosome
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How does CURL happen in the endoscope?

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  • Compartment of uncoupling of receptor and ligand

- pH change due to high H+ concentration in endosome uncouples the receptor and ligand

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After the LDL is processed in the endosome what are the possible options next?

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  • Ligand degraded

- Receptor recycled

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How does ligand recycling occur?

- use transferrin as an example

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  • Apotransferrin taken in
  • Ferrin is unloaded into endosome
  • Apotransferrin remains bound in endosome so is released when endosome is recycled and exocytosed
  • pH decrease doesn’t cause decrease in affinity
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How does transcytosis occur?

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  • From endosome to transfer vesicle
  • NOT discharged in CURL
  • Transfer vesicle has antibodies bound
  • Moved to the bile where all contents are degraded
  • Ligand and receptor are degraded.
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Outline the process by which membrane enveloped viruses are endocytosed.

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  • Binds to cells by fortuitous association with cell receptors
  • Entering cells via clathrin-coated pits (RME)
  • Unfolding of hydrophobic domains in membrane, fusion proteins in response to acidic pH of endosome
  • Inserting membrane fusion proteins into the endosome membrane leading to membrane fusion and release genomic RNA into cell cytoplasm
  • Using host cell machinery to replicate RNA and capsid proteins -> new viruses at cell membrane.
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Give two examples of toxins entering by receptor mediated endocytes

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  • Cholera

- Diptheria

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Give three examples of coat proteins.

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  • Clathrin - plasma membrane coated pits
  • COPI - ER
  • COPII - Golgi