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Biology 315 Test 2
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
03/06/2011

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Term
Describe 3 roles of the plasma membrane
Definition
recieve info
import & export molecules
move & expand cell
Term
Cytosol
Definition
intracellular liquid
liquid and organelles (not nucleus)
Term
the lipid bilayer is impermeable to what?
Definition
water soluble molecules
Term
phospholipids are ampipathic. What does this mean?
Definition
hydrophobic & hydrophilic
Term
what is the most common phospholipid in cell membranes?
Definition
Phosphatidylcholine
Term
What type of membrane movement with phospholipids is energetically unfavorable?
Definition
flip flopping -rarely happens
Term
What leads to greater fluidity at lower temperatures
Definition
Shorter hydrocarbon chains & cis-double bonds
Term
What does cholesterol do to lipid bilayers?
Definition
makes membranes more rigid & less permeable
to small molecules
Term
Where is Phosphatidylinositol found in the plasma membrane?
Where are glycolipids found?
Definition
Phosphatidylinositol only in inner leaflet;
glycolipids only in outer leaflet.
Term
What are integral membrane protiens?
What are peripheral membrane proteins?
Definition
need to disrupt bilayer to release (detergents)
only need to disrupt protein-protein
interactions to release
Term
if a protien is spanning the lipid bilayer, what is is likely to be?
Definition
a helix
Term
How many membrane-spanning domains are
needed to form a pore?
Definition
multiple
Term
When there are Stretches of 20-30 amino acids with a high degree of hydrophobicity
what are they likely to be?
Definition
membrane spanning regions.
Term
are membrane protiens mobile?
Definition
yes
Term
can lateral membrane mobility of membranes be restricted?
Definition
yes
Term
Eukaryotic cells are lined with a layer of what?
Definition
carbohydrates
Term
what to membrane transport proteins do?
Definition
transport small, water soluble molecules across the membrane
Term
How do small molecules and ions enter the cell?
Definition
a transporter or channel
Term
another name for passive transport
what does it mean>
Definition
facilitative diffusion
passing a molecule down it's concentration gradient
Term
What do transporters do?
Definition
Bind solutes, undergo conformational change & release solute on other side
Term
What do transporters carry?
Definition
sugars, amino acids &
nucleosides across membrane.
Term
What are some ways active transport is powered?
Definition
coupled driven- move them with ions going with their gradient
ATP driven
light driven (Bacteria & archae
Term
What does the Na/K pump do?
Definition
moves them against elecrochemical gradients using ATP
3 Na OUT 2 K in
Term
what is the purpose of active transport?
Definition
maintain ion balance in a cell
Term
What is a uniport?
symport?
Antiport?
Definition
a) moves one ion at a time
b) moves 2 ions together
c)moves 2 ions opposite directions
Term
what does the Na/glucose symport do?
Definition
uses Na+ gradient to
transport glucose into cell
Term
What is the specivity of transporters?
WHat is the specivity of channels?
Definition
ligand binding
size & charge
Term
What do channel proteins do?
Definition
form pores to allow solutes to go through
allows many molecules to go through
Term
What kind of gated channels are there?
Definition
ligand gated
voltage gated
stress gated
Term
How does that Na channel exclude K?
Definition
too narrow, so 10X more permeable to Na
Term
How is the K+ channel selective against Na?
Definition
Na is too small to interact with carbonly O2
Term
What are the forces that drive an ion across a membrane?
What equation represents the ballance between the two of these?
Definition
elecctrical membrane potentiial
Concentration gradient of the ion
Nernst equation
Term
What is the Nernst equation?
Definition
V=62log10 (c0-Ci)
V= membrane potential
C0 & Ci =out & in ion concentrations
all at 37 degrees
Term
What do mitochondria, chloroplasts & prokaryotes use to harness energy?
Definition
chemiosmotic coupling
Term
What is cChemiosmostic coupling?
Definition
electron transport drives pump to move protons across membrane
then proton gradient is harness by ATP synthase to make ATP
(electrochemical energy converted to chemical energy)
Term
Chemiosmotic coupling gives energy for what processes?
Definition
active membrane transport
ATP synthesis
Flagella rotation
Term
mitochondria & chloroplasts both use what to harvest energy?
Definition
electron stransport processes
Term
what are the folds in mitochondria called?
Definition
christae- forms inter membrane
Term
what structure is mitochondria like?
Definition
mobile & flexible
Term
How are more mitochondria and chloroplasts made?
do they have their own genome?
Definition
divide like bacteria
yes!
Term
what does oxidative phosphorylation do?
Definition
turns NADH to NAD+ and H20
turns ADP + P to ATP
Term
what dontes electrons to the electron transport chain?
Definition
NADH
Term
why is the E transport chain slow and step by step
Definition
to harnes as much energy as possible
Term
what three enzyme complexes pump protons across membranes from the metrix to intermembrane space?
Definition
NADH dehydrogenase complex
cytchrome b-c1 complex
cytochrom oxidase complex
Term
what happens when protons are pumped across the inner membrane?
Definition
creates an elecrochemical proton gradient
Term
does redox potential increase or decrease along ETC?
Definition
increase
Term
Where is the ETC in a chloroplast?
Definition
thylakoid membrane
Term
What to antenna pigments do?
Definition
absorb light & transfer energy to a special pair of chlorophpyl molecules in reaction center
Term
light energy is harvested by what?
Definition
reaction center in chlorophyll molecules
Term
where do high energy electrons travel down the ETC?
Definition
thylakoid membrane
Term
the light reaction generates what molecules?
Definition
ATP & NADPH
Term
what generates high energy electrons for reducing NADP+ to NADPH?
Definition
PS I & II
Term
what can produce ATP w/o NADPH or O2?
Definition
cyclic photophosphorylation
Term
Chloroplast ATP synthase is driven by what?
Definition
PH NOT membrane potential
Term
Thylakoid membrane is permeable to what ions?
Definition
Mg2+ & Cl-
Term
what organelles make ATP in plants?
Definition
BOTH Chloroplasts and mitochondria
Term
what is most of the cell composed of?
Definition
cytosol, mito, & ER
Term
what is the nuclear compartment topologically equivalent to?
what babout the ER?
Definition
cytosol
extracellular space
Term
what organelles are involved in secretory & endocytic pathways?
Definition
ER, golgi apparatus endosomes, lysosomes, transport vesicles
Term
what are 4 distinct compartment types?
Definition
Nucleus & cytosol
mitochondria
Plastids
organelles in secretory & endocytic pathways
Term
what organelles are plastids?
Definition
chloroplasts, storage plastids, chromoplasts
Term
where is the info for making new organelles stored?
Definition
not in DNA, but in organelle itself
Term
what half of the the ER membrane are phospholipids added to?
Definition
cytosolic half
Term
How does the ER membrane move to other membranes?
Definition
vesicel budding & fusion
Term
what are the 3 ways membrane enclosed organelles import proteins>
Definition
nuclear pores
across membranes
vesicles
Term
what do sorting signals do?
Definition
target prteins to diff compartments of the cell
Term
what is a signal sequence?
Definition
target protiens to correct destination
located on end
Term
What goes on in the nulceus?
Definition
DNA storage, DNA replication, RNA replication, RNA processing
Term
where does translation occur?
Definition
cytosol
Term
what does the nuclear envelope do?
Definition
encloses DNA & defines nuclear compartment
Term
what does the nuclear envelope do?
Definition
encloses DNA & defines nuclear compartment
Term
what do nuclear pore complexes do?
Definition
regulate transport into & out of nucleus
Term
how is the outer nuclear membrane similar to ER
Definition
studded with ribosomes
Term
what does the inner nuclear membrane do?
Definition
has anchoring sites for nuclear lamina (protein meshwork for support)
Term
what is the nuclear lamina composed of>
Definition
intermediat filaments or lamins that form a lattics for shape
Term
what oes the nuclear lamina bind to?
Definition
inner membrane & chromatin
Term
where are telomeres and centromeres typically found?
Definition
attached ot nuclear envelope
Term
what specifically is too large to pass through NPCs by diffusion?
Definition
proteins & RNAs
Term
what is a NPC composed of?
Definition
30 NPC proteins called nucleoporins
Term
what in the nucleus blocks diffusions of large molecules?
Definition
tangled mesh of central pores
Term
what promotes the transport of folded proteins into the nucleus?
Definition
Nuclear localization signal
Term
what is the NLS made of?
Definition
1 or 2 short stretches of basic amino acids
Term
what family are nuclear import receptors or importins from?
Definition
kyryopherin protein family
Term
what drives nuclear imports?
Definition
GTP hydrolysis
Term
What imposes directionality on
transport via NPCs?
Definition
Ran GTPase
Term
How is Ran-GDP imported into nucleus?
Definition
uses its own transporter.
Term
what is Export from nucleus mediated by?
Definition
nuclear
export receptors or exportins
Term
Dephosphorylation of what permits nuclear entry?
Definition
Pho4
Term
Cell signaling induces IκB degradation allowing what to enter?
Definition
NF-κB
Term
Mature mRNAs are exported from nucleus as
Definition
riboprotein complexes
Term
Membrane-enclosed organelles import proteins
by of one of three mechanisms
Definition
transport through nuclear pores
across membranes
vessicles
Term
what mechanism drives nuclear import?
Definition
GTP hydrolysis
Term
what does Ran GTPase do?
Definition
imposes diecetionality on transport by using NPCs
Term
what are all protiens initially translated by?
Definition
free ribosomes
Term
what directs protiens to correct destination?
Definition
signal sequences on N terminus protein
Term
what forms the amphipathic a helix?
Definition
matrix miochondrial signal sequence
Term
what are soem mitochondrial prtoein translocators?
Definition
TIM & TOM
Term
what are soem mitochondrial prtoein translocators?
Definition
TIM & TOM
Term
what state are proteins in when translocated across mitochondrial membrane?
Definition
unfolded
Term
what chaperone prevents folding in the cytosol?
what binds prteins & pulls them through the membrane?
Definition
Cytosolic Hps70
Mitochondrial Hsp70
Term
what process of protein import is similar to that in chloroplasts?
Definition
import into mitochondria
Term
mother of all membranes?
Definition
ER
Term
what is produced in the ER?
Definition
lipids, transmembrane prteins & secretory proteins
Term
what does smooth ER do?
Definition
lipid metabolism
Term
where is the entry point for a secretory pathway?
Definition
Rough ER
Term
what is the pulse-chase experiment?
Definition
found the secretory pathway of amino acids by labeling some radioactivly
Term
where does translation of ER bound prteins begin?
Definition
on free ribosomes
Term
waht escorts ribosomes to SRP receptors on the ER membrane?
Definition
ER signal sequence
Term
what does Bip Do?
Definition
acts like ratchet to pull prteins throough ER (need atp)
Term
start and stop transfer sequences
hydrophilic or hydrophobic?
Definition
hydrophobic
Term
if more positively charged amino acids PRECEDE the start transfer sequence, what what enters the ER lumen first?
Definition
C terminus
if follow STS, then N terminus
Term
what is an example of a serpentine transmembrane protein?
Definition
Rhodopsin
Term
what is a cathrin coat?
Definition
form vesicles from membrane
Term
what are two fucnctions for a coat?
Definition
concentrates specific membrane proteins in a patch
shapes forming vesicle
Term
what does
COPII do?
COPI?
Clatherin?
Definition
transitional ER to Golgi
golgi to ciesternae or ER
endocytosis or golgi to endosomes
Term
what links membrane proteins & clatherine?
Definition
adaptor proteins
Term
what does dynamin GTPase do?
Definition
pinches off coated vesicles
Term
what does RAB GTPase do?
Definition
actsto sort transport vesicels to the correct membranes
Term
what do SNAREs do?
Definition
catalyze membrane fusion reactions and medidate membrane fusion
Term
where does proteolytic processing of unsulin occur?
Definition
secretory vesicles?
Term
what mediates prtoein folding & multiprotein complex assembly?
Definition
Bip
(keeps unfolded proteins in ER
Term
what facilitates the correct disulfide bonds?
Definition
PDI
Term
What anchors proteins to the plasma membrane?
Definition
GPI
Term
what occurs as proteins enter the ER?
Definition
asparagine
Term
what is used as a tag to monitor protein foldin the ER?
Definition
Oligosacharides
Term
what happens to proteins that fail to fold?
Definition
exported & degraded by proteasome
Term
what does Activated IRE1 do?
Definition
initiates splicing reactions to produce functional transcription factor
Term
what is KDEL
KKXX?
Definition
lumenal protein
membrane protein
both are resident ER proteins with retrieval siglans to return
Term
what does the golgi do?
Definition
sorting & dispatch for proteins received from the ER
Term
glycosltransferases do what?
glycosidases do what?
Definition
add sugars to golgi
remove sugars from golgi
Term
what are 3 ways out of trans golgi network?
Definition
secretory vesicles
constitutive secretory pathways
regulated pathways
Term
proteins can be targeted to apical or basolateral domains by what two mechanisms?
Definition
direct sorting of protiens
indirect sorting by endosomes
Term
what do lysosomes do?
Definition
digestive system of cell
Term
what two things come together to form a lysosome?
Definition
fusion of endosomes & transport vesicles
Term
what directs proteins to a lysosome?
Definition
phosphorlylation of mannose
Term
what is pinocytosis?
Definition
cell drinking
Term
receptor mediated endocytosis is a form of what?
Definition
pinocytosis
Term
what receptor imports cholesterol into the cell?
Definition
LDL
Term
what is an early endosome>>
Definition
sorting station for endocytic vesicles
Term
what is synaptic signaling?
Definition
a specialized type of paracrine signaling
Term
differences between endocrine & synaptic signalling
Definition
slow & fast
specifivity determined by receptors or synapses
Term
what do GAP junctions do?
Definition
give fast & symetric communication between cells
Term
what does nitroglycerine do?
Definition
converted to NO & used to treat heart pain
Term
How does NO signal?
Definition
by directly activating intracellular receptors
Term
what does thyroid hormone binding do?
Definition
converts receptor from a repressor to an activator
Term
can the same molecule be uses for endocrine or paracrine signaling?
Definition
yes
Term
how would you describe steroid & thyroid hormones?
Definition
small, hydrophobic signaling molecules
Term
do nuclear receptors activate or repress gene transcription?
Definition
both
Term
what are two types of molecular switches in signaling pathways?
Definition
signal w/ phosphorylaiton
or by GTP binding
Term
what do scaffolding proteins do?
Definition
increase local concentration of signaling factors & reduce cross talk between pathways
Term
in response to ligand binding. what serves as a docking site for signal proteins?
Definition
phosphorylation of cytosolic tail of receptors
Term
what do modular domains do?
Definition
mediate binding between signal transduction pathways
Term
what do coincidence detectors do?
Definition
integrate signals from multiple pathways
Term
what are 3 types of surface receptors?
Definition
ligand binding
g protein coupled receptors
enzyme-coupled receptors
Term
sompe peptide signaling molecules?
Definition
insulin, glucagon, GH
Term
what are Eicosandoids?
Definition
lipid signaling molecules that bind to cell surface receptors
Term
valium does what?-
Nicotine
Morphine & Heroine?
Definition
relieves anxiety
constrict blood vessels/Inc. BP
euphoria (stimulates g protein opiate receptors)
Term
what to G protein copuled receptors do?
Definition
activate trimeric GTP binding proteins (Gproteins)
Term
half of all drugs work through what receptors?
Definition
GPCR
Term
how do GPCR's activate G proteins?
Definition
by causing exchange of GTP for GDP
Term
hydrolysis og GTP does wha to a Ga subunit?
Definition
turns it off
Term
what does a Gby complex do?
Definition
activates K channels to dlow down heart in response to acetylcholine
Term
what does a Gby complex do?
Definition
activates K channels to dlow down heart in response to acetylcholine
Term
what does a Gby complex do?
Definition
activates K channels to dlow down heart in response to acetylcholine
Term
what is cAMP?
Definition
a second messenger in hormone signaling
Term
do G proteins stimulate or inhibit adenylyl cyclase?
Definition
either
Term
what does protein Kinase A do?
Definition
mediates most effects of cAMP
Term
what does adrenaline do to skeletal muscle?
Definition
stimulates glycogen breakdown in it
Term
what does prtoein phosphatase 1 do?
Definition
counteracts protein kinase A
Term
sperm entry trigers what wave?
Definition
Ca wave that initiates development
Term
what is calmodulin?
Definition
high affinity Ca receptor
(activates CaM kinases)
Term
Ras, Faf MEK & ERK are all what?
Definition
growth factors that help with proliferation & differentation of cells
Term
where do protein X & Y act in comparison to Ras?
Definition
X acts upstream of Ras
Y acts downstream
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