Unit 1 Flashcards
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What is an example of a totipotent cell?
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- fertilized egg
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How many germ layers do we have?
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What is the bev bio mantra?
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- find it move it block it
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What does find it mean?
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- where is gene expressed, does protein made stay in cell or diffuse
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How does info move throughout the cell?
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- info starts in the nucleus, transcription of RNA takes it out, ribosome carries it around
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How are proteins made?
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by the translation of mrna
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What is genomic equivilance?
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- all cells except RBCs and germ cells have same genetic info (blueprint and internal factors) material is just used differently
- each cell just transcribes different subsets of info
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What are the protein tracking mechanisms?
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- western blot
- immunohistochemistry
- immuno cytochemistry
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What does a western blot look for?
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if the protein is present
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What does immunohistochemistry look for?
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- antibody detects protein location from tissue sample
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What does immunocytochemistry look for?
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- analyzes a single cell
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What are the RNA sequencing mechanisms?
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- rna seq (total and sc)
- insituhybridization
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What does RNA seq look for?
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- says whats there, not where in the cell it is
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What does insituhybridization look for?
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- ## holes in cell then hybridizes by injecting to see where protein is coming from
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What are housekeeping genes?
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- genes transcribed and needed in all cells
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What is an abbarent cell?
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- when a cell turns on a gene they don’t need
- causes disease
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What are the two opposing view points of developmental bio?
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- epigenesis
- preformation
- onotgeny recapitulates phylogeny
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What is epigenesis?
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- everything is an embryo ( cells, tissues, organs) “de novo”
- Aristotle’s viewpoint
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What is preformation?
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- adult form homunculus is present in mini form
- leewevenhoeks view
- everything is pre-developed
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What are metameric structures and metamerism?
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- repetitive structures in development then goes to somites to structures like vertebrae
- type of pattern formation
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What oes ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny mean?
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- the current organism develops through the same way all their ancestors did before they became themselves
- same phases as the ancestral group
- embryonic development from fertilization to gestation or hatching (ontogeny) goes through stages of evolution from remote ancestors (phylogeny)
- human development started like chicken development is what they were getting at
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What is ontogenesis?
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- development of an individual organism
- anatomical structure, behavioral feature
- basically the stages of development
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What is phylogeny?
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- evolutionary development and diversification of a species, group of organisms, a feature of an organism
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What does extant mean?
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still alive, has extinct ancestors
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What is the most accurate way to identify an organism?
- protein sequencing
- because of evolution by DNA mutations, same dna sequence can mean different things through evolution
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What is temperospatial expression?
- where and when does something develop and show
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What is differentiation?
- how does simple cells become complex
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What is morphogenesis?
how do cells organize to form things
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How do cells know when to stop diving?
-cells have positional information about the sum of all cellular and molecular processes that tells a cell where it is
- gives symmetry
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Are all evolutionary changes possible?
- not all beneficial but all possible
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What is conditional development?
- reversible subject to time
- if you change it early enough it will, if not it wont
- you would change it by putting in a non-neutral environment
- aka regulative development
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How do stem cells develop?
- if you put a stem cell in blood it will become blood stem cell
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What is autonomous specification?
- cell has extra info so regardless of where they are it will become the original purposed cell
- extra info is gene products
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Explain the yellow cresent?
- as cells divides only 1/2 the cells have it so maternal determinants get filtered out
- cell is yellow and red ombre
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What is a blastomere?
- cell derived from reductive cleavage
- maternal determinants have different molecules and doesnt always happen early in development
- bc of blastomere and reductive division only giving 1/2 of the macho MRNA is asymmetrically inherited
- allows us to fate map what cells will become
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What can the fate map depend on?
- position in embryo
- for the first few cell divisions your genome has no control over development, only mom's
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What is syncytial development?
- most insects and muscle cells
- karyokinesis but not cytokinesis
- gives cells multiple nuclei
- asymmetrically split
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What are morphogens?
- molecuels that drive pattern formation
- usually secreted
- higher levels closer to what it was secreted from
-ex. biccoid
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What is a feccund?
- capable of producing lots of offspring
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What are the steps to the lifecycle?
- fertilization
- cleavage
- gastrulation
- organogenesis
- larval
- maturity
- gametogenesis
| fat cows give out lucrative milk generously
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What is fertiilization?
sperm + egg= 1 cell
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What happens during clevage?
- cell goes from morula to blastula
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What is the morula stage?
- cells in an organism are easily told apart from each other
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What is the blastula stage?
- cavity for embro to develop is formed
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What is reductive clevage?
- DNA synthesis goes through mitosis without cell synthesis
- membrane synthesis to fill in cell forms "lumps"
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What is gastrulation?
- blastocoel to blastopore to ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm
- allows us to divide animals into protostomes vs deuterosomes
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What is a protostomes?
mouth formed first
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What are deuterostomes?
- anal pore formed first
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What happens during organogenesis?
- nervous system develops then head then body
- has an anterior primacy
- neural tube helps divide us into axis
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What is anterior primacy?
- anterior side develops first
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What is gametogenesis?
- organism is sexually mature
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What are the human axis?
- anterior/ rostral
- posterior/ caudal
- lateral (r/l)
bilateral organisms have all 3 planes
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What are the fate mapping techniques?
- vital dyes
- xenotransplantation
- transgenic DNA
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What are vital dyes?
- dyes that won't kill you
- persists through development
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What is xenotransplantation?
- adds foreign DNA to see where it goes
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What is the transgenic method of fate mapping
- adds foreign DNA
- uses a constitutive gfp; green light that goes everywhere with foreign DNA
- recipient can't also have transgenic gfp
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What are epithelial cells?
- skin cells, line intestine lungs, and blood vessels
- polarized and can preform different tasks on different surfaces
- tightly associated
- have sensory functions if ciliated
- have an absent or reduced intercellular matrix
- usually on basal lamina (ECM)
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What are the type of epithelial cell to cell contacts?
- adherens junction
- tight junctions
- desmosomes
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What do adherens junctions contain?
- cadherin, catenines, vinculin, actin
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What is the function of adherens junctions?
- initiation and stabilization of cell to cell adhesion
- regulation of actin cytoskeleton
- intracellular signaling
- transcriptional regulation
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What do tight junctions contain?
- claudin, occludin, zona occludins, actin
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What are the functions of tight junctions?
- stronger junction
- fence (prevents mixing of membrane proteins between apical and basolateral membranes )
gate: controls paracellular passage of ions and solutes between cells
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What does paracellular mean?
between cells
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What are the functions of desmosomes?
- still a tight and strong junction
- in tissues that experience tight mechanical stress (cardiac muscle, bladder, skin)
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What are the functions of the cell to ECM focal adhesions?
- anchor cells using integrins to ECM
- transduce mechanical forces
- facilitates diffusion of regulatory signals
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What do cell to ECM focal adhesions contain?
- integrins, vinculin, talin, alpha-actinin, actin , ecm
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where are cell to ecm focal adhesions found?
- epithelial and mesenchymal cells
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What are mesnchymal cells?
- cells (especially immune cells) that need to move
- when epithelial cells become unanchored and can move they become mesenchymal (derived from epithelial cells)
- have a loss of cell to cell adhesion and have weakly interacting cell to ecm interactions (can't fully adhere but can grasp
- have a loss of apical basal polarity but a gain of front to pack polarity
- migratory and invasive
- loss of keratin expression but gain of vimentin expression
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what are the functions of mesenchymal cells?
- capacity for self- renewal and proliferation (dividing)
- stem cells with capacity to differentiate into different cells
0 gives rise to embryonic germ layers (mesoderm and endoderm)
- gives rise to neural crest
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What kind of cytoskeleton do epithelial cells have?
- actin based cortical cytoskeleton
- quasi static
- cell shape doesn't change too much (snaps back into shape)
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What does quasi-static mean?
- slow change that maintains equillibrium
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What kind of cytoskeleton do mesynchimal stem cells have?
- actin based stress fiber network
- very dynamic, cell shape changes
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What is a primary protein structure?
- linear sequence of AA making up polypeptide chains
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What is a secondary protein structure?
- local spatial conformation of backbone without side chains
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What is a tertiary protien structure?
- 3D interaction between AA side chains and backbone
- fibrous protein
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What is a fibrous protein?
- tertiary protein
- made of elaongated polypeptide chains forming filamentous structures
- low H20 solubility
- ex. intermediate filaments (keratin, vimentin) collagens, elsastins, fibrins
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What is a quaternary protein structure?
- multiple protein chains packaged closely
- globular protein
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What is a globular protein?
- quaternary structure
- small and compact
- largest class in human body
- forms transcription factors, molecules and morphogens
- high H20 solubility
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Xan a protein be globular and fibrous?
yes
- globular could become fibrous
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What are the membrane associated proteins?
- integral proteins
- monotropic proteins
- extrinsic proteins
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What are integral proteins?
- having domains that pass through both layers of lipid bilayer (plasma membrane)
- can be single or multiple pass integral proteins
- ecto and endoderm
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What are monotropic proteins?
- intracellular protein associating with 1 layer of lipid bilayer
- lipidphillic
- endoderm
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What are extrinsic proteins?
- extracellular protein having a loose association with outer layer of lipid bilayer
- hydrophilic
- ectoderm
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what does surface tension do?
- surgace shrinks and minimizes surface area
- measured as resistance to deformation when a force is applied
- plays a roll in cell segregation, but not most of it
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What is cell segregation?
- how tight cells come together to form outer and inner layer
- think of it like cell velcro
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how doe cell segregation work?
- cadherins on one cell adhere to cadherens on another cell which are attached to the cortical-actin cytoskeleton at adherens junction
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How do cadherens stick to the cortical cytoskeleton?
through catenins
- alpha gamma betta
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What are the tree types of cadherins?
- epithelial
- placental
- neural
can all bind together
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What are cadherins strengthened by?
calcium
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How do cadherins relate to cell segregation?
- density of cadherins on cell surgace affect sorting
- more cadherins create more surface tension and make it harder to pull apart
- more cadherins of 1 type means that that cadherin group goes to the middle
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How are mesenchymal cells aligned?
- less densly packed because they neeed to move
- basal lamina seperates E and M cells
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How are cells stabilized?
- basal lamina binds using focal adhesions in adherins junction to keep epithelial cells in place
- focal adhesion associates with cortical actin cytoskeleton
- integrin helps with binding
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What is juxtacrine signaling?
- cells close together communicate through hormones
- cells must be next to eachother
- needs ligand and receptor
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What is paracrine signaling?
- long distance, diffuses throughout
- like a cell tower but antenna = receptor to get signal and must have receptor
- needs a ligand and a receptor
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What is a ligand?
- signaling proteins
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What is up-regulation?
- need more of something, add more receptors
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What is a nuclear receptor?
- ex/ estrogen estrogen pathway
- uses endocrine and paracrine receptors
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What do morphogens cause?
- concentration gradient
- activates gene expression in a gradient because if there are more ligands binding = more showing gene
= - cells closer to the source typically have more enhancers
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What are enhancer elements?
- bind to transcription factor to interact with RNA polymerase to accelerate transcription of that gene
- more enhancers = more transcription
- ligand binding to receptor causes signal transduction cascade
- gene transcription happens in nucleus
- cells closer to the source typically have more enhancers
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What is an example of physical cells communicating?
- going to gym or getting a tan
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What is a constitutive pathway?
always on
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What is an example of juxtacrine signaling?
- Delta-Notch
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Whata are examples of paracrine signaling?
- teceptor tyrosine kinase
- hedgehog
- WNT
- serine adn threonine and kinases
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What are some key characteristics of microtubules
- polarized
- assemble in semi crystalized order
- kinesin and dyesin move on them
- actin is globular on the + end of the tubule but fibrous on the - end
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What does it mean that microtubules assemble in a semi-crystalized order?
- Beta on positive end
- alpha on negative end
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What do colcemide and nacodazole do?
inhibit tubulin polymerization on microtubules
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What does taxol do?
- stabilizes microtubules
- stops cell division
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How does kenesin move on microtubules?
- moves on positive end
- anterograde movement (moves fowards)
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How does dyenien move on microtubules?-
- on negative end
- retrograde movement, goes backwards
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What do latrunculin and cytochalisin do?
inhibit actin polymerization
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What does phalloidin do?
- stabilizes actin polymers
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What is actin really important for on microtubules?
- cell migration like epithelial to mesenchymal transition
- globular to fibrous actin transition extends cell and allows cell movement
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Describe intermediate filaments?
- made of keratin and vinculin
- shifted and antiparallel
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What do gap junctions do?
- form channels to allow cell to cell communication
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What is the central dogma of gene regulation?
- DNA to RNA to Protein
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What can chemical modifications effect?
- DNA
- RNA
- Protein
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What is a chemical modification to DNA?
cytosine methylation
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What are chemical modifications to RNA?
- splicing
- poly adenylation
- 5' capping
- adenine methylation
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What are all protein modifications?
post translational modifications
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What are the types of protein chemical modification?
- phosphorylation
- methylation
- acylation
- acetylation
- glycosylation
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What is the difference between RNA and DNA?
- RNA has an extra O
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What is spontaneous deamination?
- oxygen takes NH2 (amine) from cytosine and turns it to thymine
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What is chromatin?
- made of protein and DNA and makes up eukaryotic chromosomes
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What are the steps to Chromatin modification?
- starts with nucleosome's
- histone modification makes nucleosomes into solenoid
- domiain organization makes solenoid into scaffold loop
- mitotic condensation makes scaffoled loop into chromosome
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What are nucelosomes?
- beads on a string
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What is heterochromatin?
- darkly stained
- densely packed
- transcriptionally de-active
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What is euchromatin?
- open chromatin
- loosely packed
- lightly stained
- transcriptionally active
- good chromatin
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What does the nucleolus do?
- makes Rrna and Trna
- transcriptionally active
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Does all chromatin look the same?
no, different based on cell type bc different genes are transcribed in different cell
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what do core histones create?
- histone octomer
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What do histone tails do?
- make the chromatin more accessible to transcription factors or restrict access to chromatin
- site of post-translational modifications that alter chromatin
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What do histones face?
- lots of negative selective pressure
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What does it mean if the histone tail is methylated?
- its closed
- condensed nucleosome
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What does it mean that histones make chromatin more accessible?
- open chromatin, expose euchromatin
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What does it mean histones make chromatin less accessible?
- close off chromatin
- heterochromatin usage
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What do histone post translational modifications create?
- open chromatin
- uncondensed nucleosome?
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What are the histone post translational modifications?
-phosphorylation
-acetylation
- methylation with active lysine
- methylation with repressive lysine
- methylation with arginine
- ubiquitylation
- all different because different chromatin binding sites have affinities for different proteins
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Is dna methylation and methylation of histones the same?
- no
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What is the RTK pathway?
- binding
- homodimer
- phosphorylation cascade
- tyrosine kinase hyper activated
- TK phosphorylated and activated
- protein goes to target
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What is the Jak-stat RTK pathway?
- ligand
- receptor
- Jak
- Stat Dimerization
- transcription
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What is the RTK signal transduction cascade?
- Ligand
- RTK
- GEF
_ RAS
_ RAF
- MEK
- ERK
- Transcription Factor
- Transcription
( RAF to MEK to ERK is kinase cascade)
(GEF is guanine exchange factor)
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What is the ligand in the hedgehog pathway?
hedgehog
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What is the receptor in the hedgehog pathway?
patched
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What is the co-receptor in the hedgehog pathway?
smoothened
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What is the effector in the hedgehog pathway?
gli
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What happens in the hedgehog pathway if there is no transcription of hedgehog repressive genes ?
- smoothened repressed
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What happes in the hedgehog pathway if there is transcription of hedgehog-repressive genes?
smoothened is de-repressed and activates gli
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Where does hedgehog and WNT occur?
on cillium protrusions from cell
- involves microtubukes protruding from centriol
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What is the canonical pathway of WNT?
- WNT
- Frizzled/ LRP5
- Disheveled
- GSK3
- Beta catenin
- Transcription
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What is the ligand in the WNT Pathway?
WND
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What is the receptor in the WNT Pathway?
frizzled
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What is the co-activator in the WNT pathway?
- disheveled
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What is the effector in the WNT Pathway?
B-catenin
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Where si B-catenin when there is no WNT?
- destruction complex
- then phosphorylated and ubiquinated
- then no transcription
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What happens when WNT is bound?
- gene is expressed
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What are non-canonical pathways ?
no b-catenin
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What are the possible outcomes of the non-canonical pathways
- Ca2+ release and up regulation
- cytoskeletal changes
- transcription
- genomic and non-genomic effects
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What are the steps to the smad pathway?
- TGF b superfamily ligand
- receptor 2
- receptor 1
- smad activation
- smad dimerization
- new transcription
- activation
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What is the receptor in the smad pathway?
- serine tirosine kindase
(dimer of dimers)
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What is the ligand in the smad pathway?
lots of them
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What is the effector in the smad pathway?
- smad 2/3
- smad 1/5
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What is the co-effector in the smad pathway?
smad 4
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What is TFG B
tumor growth factor
activates smad pathway
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What is translated?
mrna
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What are the stepts to RNA processing and stability?
1. gene has RNAP binded and regulated by transcription factors and enhancers
2. copy of DNA strand into RNA.
3. splicing
4 MRNA processed
5. translation
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What must the gene have to be regulated by transcription factors and enhancers?
- open and accesible histone tail
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What is splicing?
- exons coded introns cut out making nuclear RNA
- must be very specific not interrupting reading frame
- allows us to get more protein combos in a cell
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What is the GU AG rule?
- start to stop of intron
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Where are promoters located?
anywhere
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Why do trancription factors alter chromatin?
- to allow transcription of chromatin and displace histones
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What are mediators?
- bridges to link enhancers to promoters
- important for gene expression
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What is a cis-enhacer?
- on gene that is going to be activated
- recognized by splicosome
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What is a trans-acting factor?
- binds to enhancer on gene
- part of splicosome
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What are enhancers described as?
- modular and cooperative
- can work together
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What are silencer elements?
- attenuate gene expression and lower the amount of gene as well as saying when and where it is expressed
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What are the RNA processing methods?
- capping on 5'
- polyandenylation of 3'
- splicing
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What does polyadenylation do?
- regulates RNA stability
- longer poly-A-tail is more stable
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What does capping do?
- closing off sequence
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What is alternative splicing?
- can cut different parts out of same sequence
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What are the forms of post-translational control?
- hormonal activation
- ribosome heterogeneity
- protein translational contral miRNA
- localisation of MRNAs
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What is ribosome heterogeniety?
- not all ribosomea are = there are mutations that effet them
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What are the microRNA steps?
- drsoha
- dicer
- risk
- if imperfect complimentary= repression
- if perfect complimentary= degradation
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What are the forms of mRNA localization?
- diffusion and local anchoring
- localize protection of MRNA (protects poly-A-tail)
- active transport along cytoskeleton
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How does everyone start off?
bi-potential, has mullerian duct and wolfien duct
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What are barr bodies?
- in all females
- second x is silenced
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How many chromosomes do all people have?
44 chromosomes + 2 sex chromosomes
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What are mesonephros?
- middle kidney of embryos . source of hematopoeitic stem cells and male sex organs
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What is the genital ridge?
- thickening of mesoderm on medial edge of mesonephros
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What is a bipotential gonad?
- ruminant tissue from genital ridge
- derives ovaries and testes
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What happens at 8 weeks development?
- xx wolfien disappears
- xy mullerien disappears
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What happens at 20 weeks?
- egg cells are covered by somatic cells called nurse cells
- sperm cells are covered by netowrk forming tubes
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What do males need?
-SRY
- SOX 9
- FGF9
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What do females need?
- WNT and RSPO4
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What are cell autonomous mutations?
- affects cell harboring mutation
- transcription factors
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What are cell non-autonomous mutations?
- affect cells around mutated cell
- secretions
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