Week 1 Flashcards
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Benign Tumor
made up of non-invasive OR metastatic cells, but have lost many growth factors and specialized function of normal cells.
They are immortal
Mutational signatures
because cancers harbor many somatic point mutations, some cancers have mutational signatures consistent with a certain carcinogenic agent.
ie. UV light and melanoma and tobacco and lung cancer
Cytogenetic Analysis
used to study cancer to detect major genetic abnormalities in cancer cells and are used in clinical diagnosis
can detect: translocation and gene deletions, Loss of Heterozygosity, anueploidy.
Anueploidy and prognosis
poor prognosis
Autosomal Dominant Cancers
Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
Familial Retinoblastoma
Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Wilms Tumor
Autosomal Recessive Cancers
Xeroderma Pigmentosa
Ataxia Telangiectasia
Blooms Syndrom
Fanconi’s Congenital aplastic anmeia
Retinoblastoma Gene/protein
Tumor Suppressor
Ch 13a14 mutation
deletion, partial deletion, or rearrangement (due to PCR and southern blot)
Retinoblastoma Prevalence
Rare, pediatric disorder 1/20,000 infants
Autosomal Dominant
Inherited Retinoblastoma
DNA from normal tissue, or unaffected family, shows a defect in one RB gene, but one normal copy. They are Heterozygous, but they acquire homozygosity for the RB gene.
Retinoblastoma - how does Loss of heterozygosity occur
1) local events
2) somatic recombination (most common)
3) loss and duplication
4) chromosome loss
Growth in normal cells
Growth factors (ras, Jun) and EGFR activate CDK4,6; cycD1-3, CDK2, and CycE.
CDKS are always present, but only activated by CycD or cycE.
When CDK are activated they phosphorylated RB to inactivate it to promote cell proliferation.
RB hyperphosphorylation
Occurs in rapidly proliferating cells at S or G2
Cells begin to divide
RB hypophosphorylation
in non-proliferating cells in G0 or G1 of cell cycle.
Repressed entry into S phase
CDK phosphorylates RB
to inactivate RB to allow the cell to proceed from G1 to S
HPV E7
Binds to RB protein to inactivate it and promote cell proliferation in cervical cancer
Sporadic cases of RB
very rare 1/10^8
characterized by unilateral retinoblastoma or single tumor
Inherited cases of RB
Inherit one RB mutation and obtain second mutation
Characteristic of bilateral retinoblastoma or multiple tumors in the same eye
What types of cancer does RB predispose you to?
1) small cell lung tumors
2) breast cancer
p107 and p130
homologs to RB in human cells. They are not located in the retina, but the are located in the pituitary, so they provide protective role in tumor development in pituitary
APC
tumor supressor gene in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
FAP
1/10,000
Autosomal Dominant disorder
but increased chance of LOH (90% will develop colon cancer by 50)
adenomatous polyps
characteristic of FAP
develop during the first 20 years of life, but become malignant by LOH
APC Gene
mapped on Ch 5q
encodes a cytoplasmic protein that regulates the localization of Beta-Catenin
Beta-Catenin
is normally sequestered to plasma membrane by Ecadherin
when WNT binds to Frizzled, it is released by membrane and can go to the nucleus to act like a transcription factor