Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Lipids and Membranes

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Question
Answer
18C amino alcohol   sphingosine  
🗑
amide linkages of fatty acids to the nitrogen of sphingosine   ceramides  
🗑
represent a phosphorus containing subclass of sphingolipids   sphingomyelins  
🗑
ceramides with one or more sugars beta-glycosidic linkages at the 1-hydroxyl group   glycosphingolipids  
🗑
glycosphingolipids with ONE sugar   cerebrosides  
🗑
glycosphinglipids with 2 or more sugars   globosides  
🗑
ceramides with 3 or more sugars, one of which is sialic acid   gangliosides  
🗑
gangliosides = ceramides with _#_ or more sugars, one of which is ______   3; sialic acid  
🗑
esters of long chain alcohols with long chain fatty acids   waxes  
🗑
highly insoluble lipid found coating animal skin and fur, in leaves of many plants and bird feathers   waxes  
🗑
lipid with ether linkage instead of acyl group at C-1 position of glycerol   ether glycerophospholipids  
🗑
ether glycerophospholipids with unsaturated alkyl chain (C-2)   plasmalogens  
🗑
terpenes are based on ____ structure   isoprene (5C)  
🗑
all sterols (incl. cholesterol) are ____-based molecules   terpene  
🗑
many _____ are recognized by their characteristic flavors or odors (ex. limonene, citronellal, pinene, menthol)   monoterpenes  
🗑
C20 terpenes; include retinal, phytol, and gibberellins   diterpenes  
🗑
lanosterol (constituent of wood fat) is example of ____ (terpene)   triterpene  
🗑
tetraterpene; carotenoid found in ripe fruit esp. tomatoes   lycopene  
🗑
1. initiation point for synthesis of carbohydrate polymers in animals = ____ 2. analogous alcohol of (1) in bacterial systems that consists of 11 ISOPRENE units   1. dolichol phosphate 2. undecaprenol (AKA bactoprenol)  
🗑
delivers sugars from cytoplasm for the synthesis o cell wall components such as peptidoglycans, lipopolysaccharides, and glycoproteins   undecaprenyl phosphate (isoprene)  
🗑
____ compounds serve as side chains of Vit. K, the ubiquinones, plastoquinones, and tocopherols (Vit. E)   polyprenyl compounds (isoprene)  
🗑
functions as both a hormone and visual pigment of the vertebrate eye   vitamin A  
🗑
vitamin A derivative which regulates gene expression in the development of epithelial tissues; isoprene (hormone fxn of Vit A)   retinoic acid  
🗑
vitamin A derivative, pigment that initiates the response of rod and cone cells of the retina to light; isoprene (visual pigment fxn of vit A)   retinal  
🗑
What activates inactive retinal (Vitamin A1 derivative) to change to functional retinal (pigment for vision)?   VISIBLE LIGHT makes 11C-12C double bond TRANS from cis  
🗑
_____ is not itself biologically active, but is converted by enzymes in the liver and kidney to 1,25-dihydroxycholechalciferol, a hormone that regulates CALCIUM UPTAKE in the intestine and CALCIUM LEVELS in kidney and bone   Vitamin D3  
🗑
deficiency of vitamin D leads to _____   defective bone formation  
🗑
collective name for a group of closely related lipids called TOCOPHEROLS   Vitamin E  
🗑
hydrophobic, associate with the membranes and lipoproteins in blood, collectively called Vitamin E --Biological antioxidants   Vitamin E  
🗑
Why are tocopherols (Vit E) considered biological antioxidants?   the aromatic ring reacts with and destroys the most reactive forms of oxygen radicals and other free radicals, protecting unsaturated FA from oxidation and preventing oxidative damage to membrane lipids  
🗑
principle symptom of vitamin E deficiency?   fragile erythrocytes  
🗑
The aromatic ring of _____ undergoes a cycle of oxidation and reduction during the formation of active PROTHROMBIN, a blood plasma proteolytic protein essential in blood clot formation   Vitamin K  
🗑
activated ____ splits peptide bonds in the blood protein fibrinogen to convert it to fibrin, the insoluble fibrous protein that holds blood clots together   prothrombin (formed from Vit K)  
🗑
Vit K deficiency leads to ______   slows blood clotting (can be fatal)  
🗑
Coumadin (widely prescribed anticoagulant) and Warfarin (component of rodent poisons) act as _____   antagonists of Vitamin K in body (so slows/prevents blood clotting)  
🗑
stimulates the carboxylation of proteins participating in blood clotting cascade = ___1___ Carboxylation of these coagulation factors is catalyzed by a carboxylase that requires the ___2___ form of (1), molecular oxygen, and CO2   1. Vitamin K 2. reduced  
🗑
Enzyme targeted by Coumadin and Warfarin?   Vitamin K epoxide reductase (blood clotting requires redox reactions of Vitamin K)  
🗑
Steroids: based on a core structure consisting of __ 6-membered rings and __ 5-membered rings, all fused together   3 6-membered 1 5-membered  
🗑
most common steroid in animals and precursor for all other steroids in mammals   cholesterol  
🗑
serve many functions in animals incl. salt balance, metabolic function, and sexual function   steroid hormones  
🗑
BILE ACIDS = polar derivatives of ____ BILE SALTS = synthesized from ____ and stored in the ____   cholesterol synthesized from CHOLESTEROL in LIVER stored in GALL BLADDER  
🗑
Bile = ?   mixture of bile acids, cholesterol, and pigments from breakdown of RBC  
🗑
Bile is secreted into the ____ after a fatty meal Function of bile?   small intestine acts as a DETERGENT emulsifying dietary fats to make them more readily accessible to DIGESTIVE LIPASES  
🗑
taurocholic acid = example of ____   bile acid  
🗑
impt precursor for many steroid hormones (incl. testosterone, estradiol, cortisol, aldosterone, prednisolone, prednisone)   cholesterol  
🗑
formation of an amide linkage between a FA and a sphingosine produces a _____   ceramide  
🗑
constitute the boundaries of cells and intracellular organelles; also provide a surface where many impt biological reactions such as electron transport, oxidative phosphorylation, electrical activity, and signaling occur   membranes  
🗑
T/F Lipids form ordered structures spontaneously in water.   true  
🗑
Monomer lipids?   Very few lipids exist as monomers  
🗑
How do micelles react to nonpolar solvents?   reverse, tails go to outside  
🗑
two ways lipid bilayers can form?   1. unilamellar vesicles (liposomes) 2. multilamellar vesicles  
🗑
Components of the Fluid Mosaic Model?   1. phospholipid bilayer = fluid matrix 2. bilayer = two-dimensional solvent 3. Lipids and proteins can undergo rotational and lateral mov't 4. 2 classes of proteins: peripheral (extrinsic) and integral (intrinsic)  
🗑
Where does cholesterol occur in membrane?   integrated  
🗑
how has lipid diffusion (migration of lipids and proteins in the bilayer) been shown?   NMR and EPR as well as fluorescence measurements  
🗑
How are proteins and lipids arranged in membrane?   LATERAL ASYMMETRY of both lipids and proteins - they can cluster in the plane of the membrane and are not uniformly distributed  
🗑
What might induce phase separations of components of membrane (form liposomes)?   divalent cations such as Ca2+  
🗑
membrane protein known to SELF-ASSOCIATE or form clusters in nonrandom formations)   Bacteriorhodopsin forms clusters known a PURPLE PATCHES in membranes of Halobacterium halobium  
🗑
Transverse Asymmetry of proteins: Bark Bretscher showed that the ___ of glycophorin is extracellular wherease ____ is intracellular   N-terminus = extracellular C-terminus = intracellular  
🗑
Transverse Asymmetry of lipids: in most cell membranes, the composition of the ____ is different from the _____   Outer monolayer is different from the inner monolayer  
🗑
proteins that move lipids from one monolayer to the other Where do these proteins get energy?   Flippase Proteins Some are passive and do not require an energy source Most require energy hydrolysis of ATP (ex. in erythrocytes)  
🗑
What type of flippase can generate membrane asymmetries?   Active Flippase (uses ATP hydrolysis)  
🗑
Phase transitions in membranes? **only pure lipid systems give sharp, well-defined transition temperatures   Below a certain transition temp - membrane lipids are rigid and tightly packed Above the transition temp - lipids are more flexible and mobile **The transition temperature is characteristic of the lipids in the membrane  
🗑
What happens to membrane as it is WARMED?   Surface area increases as thickness decreases. Mobility of the lipid chains INC dramatically (goes through phase transition)  
🗑
proteins which are NOT strongly bound to membrane, can be dissociated from the membrane by treatment with salt solutions or changes in pH   Peripheral proteins  
🗑
proteins that are imbedded in bilayer; can removed only by agents capable of breaking up the hydrophobic interactions within the lipid bilayer itself --often transmembrane but not necessarily --Ex. glycophorin, bacteriorhodopsin   integral membrane proteins  
🗑
A single transmembrane segment with globular domains on either end transmembrane segment is ____ (shape) and consists of __#__ hydrophobic amino acids   Glycophorin alpha helical; 19 AA  
🗑
Extracellular portion of glycophorin (transmembrane protein) contains ____ which constitute ______ determinants   oligosaccharides; ABO and MN blood group determinants  
🗑
spans the membrane of the human erythrocyte via a single alpha-helical transmembrane segment C-terminus faces _____ N-terminus points to _____ What attaches to the N-terminus?   Glycophorin A C-terminus faces cytosol of erythrocyte N-terminus faces extracellular side Carbohydrates  
🗑
a 7-transmembrane-segment (7-TMS) protein --found in purple patches of Halobacterium halobium --consists of 7 transmembrane helical segments with short loops that interconnect the helices --light driven proton pump   Bacteriorhodopsin  
🗑
Bacteriorhodopsin = a ____ protein, ___-driven proton pump found in _____   7-TMS protein LIGHT driven proton pump Purple patches of Halobacterium halobium  
🗑
Where are porins found?   in both Gram - bacteria and in mitochondrial outer membrane  
🗑
pore-forming proteins (30-50 kD) --general or specific (exclusion limits 600-6000) --most arrange in membrane as trimmers --high homology between various proteins --make beta barrels   Porins  
🗑
Most porins arrange in membrane as ____   trimers  
🗑
PORIN from Rhodobacter capsulatus has _____ that transverses the membrane to form the pore   16-stranded beta barrel  
🗑
a relatively new class of membrane proteins; 4 types have been found: -amide-liked myristoyl anchors -thioester-linked fatty acyl anchors -thioether-linked prenyl anchors -glycosyl phosphatidylinositol anchors   Lipid-Anchored Membrane Proteins  
🗑
Type of lipid-anchored membrane protein? --always myristic acid --always N-terminal --always a Gly residue that links   Amide-linked myristoyl anchors  
🗑
The following proteins are examples of ____: cAMP-dependent protein kinase pp60^sro tyrosine kinase calcineurin B alpha subunits of G proteins gag protein of HIV-1   amide-linked myristoyl anchors  
🗑
amide-linked myristoyl anchors: 1. always ____ acid 2. always __-terminal 3. always a ___ residue that links   1. myristic acid 2. N-terminal 3. Gly  
🗑
N-myristoylation always occurs at _____   N-terminal glycine residue  
🗑
Anchor with broader specificity for lipids - myristat, Palmitate, stearate, oleate all found   Thioester-linked acyl anchors  
🗑
The following are examples of _____: G-coupled protein receptors Surface glycoproteins of some viruses Transferrin receptor triggers and signals   Thioester-liked acyl anchors  
🗑
S-pamitoylation always occurs at the ____ residues of polypeptide chain.   cysteine  
🗑
G-protein coupled receptors, with seven transmembrane segments, may contain one (or two) palmitoyl anchors in thioester linkage to _____ residues in the __-terminal segment of the protein   cysteine; C-terminal  
🗑
Anchors: Prenylation refers to linking of "isoprene" based groups --always Cys of CAAX (C=Cys, A=Aliphatic, X=any residue) --isoprene groups include farnesyl (15C, 3 double bond) and gernaylgeranyl (20C, 4 double bonds) gropus   Thioether-linked prenyl anchors  
🗑
The following are examples of _____: yeast mating factors p21^ras nuclear lamins   Thioether-linked prenyl anchors  
🗑
Proteins containing the C-Terminal sequence CAAX can undergo ____ reactions that place ____ at the CYSTEINE side chain   prenylation thioether linked farnesyl or geranylgeranyl groups  
🗑
_____ is accompanied by the removal of the AAX peptide and the methylation of the carboxyl group of the cysteine residue, which has become the _____ residue   Prenylation; C-terminal  
🗑
____ is a small GTP-binding protein involved in cell signaling pathways that regulate cell growth and division --mutations in this are involved in 1/3 of all human cancers --it is dependent on prenylation and the proteolysis of the -AAX motif   RAS  
🗑
Because the signaling activity of RAS is dependent on __1__, the reaction itself, as well as the proteolysis of the __2__ motif, and the methylation of the __3__, have been considered targets for development of NEW CHEMOTHERAPY strategies   1) prenylation 2) -AAX motif (from the C-terminal sequence CAAX, the -AAX is removed) 3) prenylated Cys residue (what is left at the end of the C-terminal after proteolysis)  
🗑
Anchors that are more elaborate than the others --always attached to C-terminal residue --Ethanolamine link to an oligosaccharide linked in turn to inositol of PI   Glycosyl Phosphatidyllinositol Anchors  
🗑
GPI anchors are always attached to a ____ residue   C-terminal  
🗑
The following are examples of _____: surface antigens adhesion molecules cell surface hydrolases   Glycosyl Phosphatidylinositol anchors  
🗑
Core of Glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI) = _______ Additional modifications may include FA at the ___ and ___ -OH groups   3 mannose residues and a glucosamine (elaborate lipid-anchoring group) inositol and glycerol  
🗑
When transported species simply move down its concentration gradient (from high cxn to low cxn)   passive diffusion  
🗑
What does a high permeability coefficient signify?   passive diffusion is not the whole story  
🗑
Passive diffusion of an UNCHARGED species depends on:   only the concentrations on the two sides of the membrane  
🗑
Passive diffusion of a CHARGED species depends on:   1. CONCENTRATION of particle Z 2. CHARGE of particle Z 3. ELECTRICAL DIFFERENCE across the membrane (delta psi)  
🗑
How does facilitated diffusion occur?   solutes only move in the thermodynamically favored direction but proteins may facilitate transport increasing the rates of transport  
🗑
2 impt distinguishing features of facilitated diffusion?   1. Solute only flows in favored direction 2. Transport displays saturation kinetics  
🗑
How does energy input drive active transport processes?   Energy source and transport machinery are coupled so that solutes can flow against thermodynamic potential. Energy source may be ATP, light or a concentration gradient.  
🗑
SODIUM PUMP: large protein (120kD and 35kD) 1) maintains intracellular ___ low and ___ high 2) Crucial for all organs but esp. ___ and ___ 3) ATP hydrolysis drives ___ out and ___ in   1) Na low & K high 2) neural tissue and brain 3) Na+ out & K+ in  
🗑
SODIUM PUMP: 1) Alpha subunit has 10 transmembrane ____ with a large cytoplasmic domain 2) ATP hydrolysis occurs via _____ 3) _____ inhibit by binding to outside   1) helices 2) E-P intermediate 3) cardiac glycosides  
🗑
For sodium pump what moves in and out per ATP?   3 Na+ out and 2 K+ in  
🗑
osteoclasts vs osteoblasts?   **Bone material undergoes ongoing remodeling. OsteoCLASTS tear down bone tissue OSTEOBLASTS build it back up  
🗑
How do osteoclasts function?   by secreting acid into the space between the osteoclast membrane and the bone surface. Acid dissolves the Ca-phosphate matrix of the bone. **It is all driven by an ATP proton pump in the membrane  
🗑
Proton pumps cluster on the ruffled border of ____ and function to pump protons into the space between the cell membrane and the bone surface. ____ ____ concentration in this space dissolves the mineral matrix of the bone   osteoclast cells High proton concentration  
🗑
a member of a "superfamily" of genes/proteins that appear to have arisen as a "tandem repeat" --defeats efforts of chemotherapy --recognizes a broad variety of molecules and transports them out of the cell using the hydrolytic energy of ATP   MDR ATPase (AKA the P-glycoprotein) - an organic molecule pump  
🗑
MDR ATPase: this multidrug transporter is postulated to have _#_ transmembrane alpha-helices and _#_ ATP binding sites **Some of cytotoxic drugs are transported by MDR ATPase (Colchicine, Vinblastine, Adriamycin, and Vincristine)   12 transmembrane alpha-helices (HUGE!) 2 ATP binding sites  
🗑
How is amino acid and sugar transport driven by ion gradients?   SECONDARY ACTIVE TRANSPORT Does not use ATP directly, but uses the gradient of other compounds ---> Symport and Antiport  
🗑
Symport vs antiport (2* active transport)   Symport = ion and the AA or sugar are transported in the same direction across the membrane Antiport = ion and transported species move in opposite directions  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: erinlwilliams
Popular Medical sets