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Medical Cell Biology

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Functions of Cytoskeleton   Provides structural integrity, cell motility/contraction of muscles, change in cell shape, and movement of organelles  
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3 Types of Muscle   skeletal, cardiac, and smooth  
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Skeletal Muscle   striated, multi-nucleated, consist of actin and myosin  
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Sacromere   Functional contractile unit of a skeletal muscle  
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3 Layers of connective tissues surround skeletal muscle   Epimysium, Perimysium, and Endomysium  
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Epimysium   Surround the whole muscle (group of muscle fasciculi)  
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Perimysium   Surround muscle fasciculous (bundle of muscle fibers)  
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Endomysium   Surround individual muscle fiber.  
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Z Disk   actin thin filaments  
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A band   Remain constant during contraction  
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I Band   Shortens during contraction  
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H Band   Center of A band, overlapping of thick and thin filament (thick filament)  
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M Line   Anchor thick filament (myosin)  
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Actin   composed of F-actin (polymerize) and G actin (globular protein)  
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What is important about the G-protein?   Binds to ATP to polymerize F-actin. Polymerization: need ATP and Mg2+  
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Tropomyosin   Wrap around the thin filament  
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Troponin   Bind to tropomyosin (block the myosin head binding site) TnC, TnI, TnT  
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Tropomodulin   Cap slow growing end (-)  
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Polymerization of actin   Lag phase, polymerization phase, and Steady Phase,  
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Steady Phase   Also known as tread milling Effect. Monomers added is equal to the number of monomers removed. Addition of G-actin ATP (+ end) = loss of G-actin ADP (-end)  
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Tropomyosin   Wrap around the thin filaments for stability of F-actin  
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Z disk proteins   Cap Z and alpha actinin (anchored thin filament)  
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Cap Z   bind to + end of F-actin prevent growth and depolymerization  
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Alpha actinin   Space b/w thin filaments so thick filaments won't bind  
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Titin   Keep myosin thick filament centered  
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Nebulin   extended from Z-disk to (-) end of thin filament  
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Desmin   Stabilize the Z-disk  
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Myosin   consists of 2 heavy chains and 2 light chains. Formed in coiled-coil helix fashion with a repeat sequence of amino acids- to avoid aqueous solution  
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Papain   Cleave myosin heads  
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Rigor Mortis   Occurs when there is no ATP. The myosin head remain binding to the actin filament - Stiffness  
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Calcium regulation   Troponin complex bound to tropomyosin, block the binding site for myosin head.  
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What happens when Ca binds to Troponin C?   Moves troponin away from the tropomyosin. This exposes actin to the myosin head  
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Sarcroplasmic Reticulum   Stores Ca++, consists of 2 terminal cisternae and one T-tubule (triad)  
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DHPR (Dihydropyridine receptor)   Locates along the T-Tubule, which will undergoe a conformational change.  
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Ryanodine receptor   Ca2+ channel of the SR. This SR Ca2+ channel open and release Ca2+ into the cytosol  
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Calsequestrin   Takes back Ca into the SR by Ca2 ATPase  
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Cardiac Muscle Cell   Location of the nuclei is in the center where as the location of the nuclei in a skeletal muscle is in the periphery. Contraction is the same as skeletal muscle  
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Intercalated disks   Only present in Cardiac cells  
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Gap Junctions   Located in intercalated disks. It is for synchronizing the contraction (allow rapid exchange of solutes and ions)  
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Desmosome (macula adherens)   Hold cells together  
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Fascia adherens   Hold actin thin filament together like Z-disk  
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Familial Hypertrophy Cardiomyopathy   Defect in cardiac B-myosin  
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Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy   Defect in cardia a-actin  
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Smooth Muscles   No sarcomere, no troponin, not striated. Has dense bodies, lots of IFs (desmin, vimentin). Ratio of thin to thick 12:1. Made up of Dense bodies  
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Dense Bodies   Made up of a-actinin  
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Myosin Light Chain Kinase   Phosphorylates Myosin Light chain  
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Ca2+ Calmodulin - Contraction   Myosin light chain kinase is inactive when Ca-calmodulin complex form. This will phosphorylate myosin light chain and become active  
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Ca2+ Calmodulin - Relaxation   Dephosphorylation of myosin light chain by removing pi by phosphatase  
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Catcholamine   Binds to Beta adrenergic receptors. Cause an increase in cAMP, which phosphorylates protein Kinase A  
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Protein Kinase A   Phosphorylates myosin light chain kinase - cause inability to bind to calmoduline-- lead to relaxation  
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Dephosphorylation of MLCK   Causes muscle to contract by dephosphorylation of MLCK. MLCK is active  
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release of Ca+2 and DAG is stimulated by which kinase?   Protein kinase C  
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Caldesmon   Ca+2 proteins that interact with actin thin filaments  
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Contractile Ring   Present during telophase of mitosis. During mitosis, actin filaments form at cleavage site-cleavage furrow. Myosin polymerises with actin contractile ring  
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Villin and fimbrin   Bundled together and then attach to microvilli. Increase surface area for absorption at + end  
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Spectrin II and Myosin II   Link two bundles together at terminal web. Microvilli anchored at terminal web.  
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Gelsolin   Keep cytosol liquification that is triggered by increased calcium. Makes fragment filaments  
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Profilin   Polymerization. When PIP2 is bound to profilin, profilin cannot bind to actin. When PIP2 hydrolyzes to IP3 and DAG by PLP-C release profilin  
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Thymosin   Binds to G-actin and keep it in that state  
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Cytochlasin   Inhibitors of actin filament. Blocks plus end  
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Paballoidin   Stabilize microfilament does not allow depolarization  
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Protrusion   Actin polymerization. If polymerization is greater than retrograde flow = cell protrusion  
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Retrograde flow   myosin II contractile  
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Arp 2/3 nucleating complex   Branching of lamellipodia  
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Lamellipodia and filopodia   extension at leading edge for cell movement  
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WasP and Scar   Binds to Arp 2/3 - promote actin polymerization  
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Cdc42   Activate Scar bind to Arp 2/3 form filopodia  
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Rac   Activate Wasp and PI (4) P5 kinase form lamellipodia and membrane ruffles  
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Rho   Bundling of actin with myosin II.  
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Rhokinase   Phosphorylates myosin II--contracation  
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ERM proteins   Ezrin, Radixin, Moesin  
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Defect Merlin   Leads to Neurofibromatosis  
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What attaches actin filament to plasma membrane   ERM Proteins  
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Spectrin 4.1   Maintains biconcave shape of RBC  
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Ankyrin   Anchored spectrin to membrane. The whole complex is stabilized by protein 4.1  
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Ubiquination   Is needed for shaping RBC  
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Dystrophin   Protein that belong to spectrin gene family. If absent - responsible for Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy  
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Intermediate filaments   Resistance to mechanical stress. (ankyrin and spectrin II)  
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Keratin filament   Epithelial Cells  
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Neurofilament   Neurons  
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Vimentin   Containing filaments - fibroblasts/glial cells/ muscle cells  
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Nuclear Lamina   All nucleated cell (except RBC)  
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GFAP   brains  
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Microtubules   Need tubulin alpha and beta. 13 protofilament. Flagella and cilia motility, Meitotic and mitotic spindles. Vesicle transport. Need GTP  
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Drugs that Target Microtubules   Colchine, Viblastine sulphate, Nocodazole, Paclitaxel  
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Polarity   addition of subunit is faster at (+) end, (-) end is capped due to centrosome complex  
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Centrosome complex   Composed at 9 short-triplet microtubules (9+2 arrangement)  
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Kinesin   Anterograde transport (-end to +end)  
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Dynein and KRPS   Retrograde transport + end to - end  
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Dynactin Complex   Arp 1, Spectrin, Dynein  
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APP (Amyloid Precursor Protein)   Defect in MAMR (membrane associated motor receptors causes Alzheimer's disease  
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Dynein   ATPase extending towards B Tubule  
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Nexin   Attaches neighboring doublets  
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Radial Spokes   Attach doublets to the center  
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Arrangement of Microtbules in cilia and flagella   Arranged in 9+2 array. Doublet alpha tubule and beta tubule  
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Metaphase   Chromosome line in the middle - 2 forms: interpolar (overla of the spindles) and ASTRAL (GROWING AWAY FROM THE KINETOCHORE)  
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Telophase   Cytokinesis (contractile ring) - form daughter cell membrane  
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MAPs and Tau   Bind to tubulin monomoer of microtubule-allow bundling and stabilize MT  
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MAPs (EB 1 and CLIP 170)   Attach MT to kinetochore  
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Katanins and Stathmins/Op18   Disrupt microtubules formation  
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Katanins   Prevent the additions of tubulins to MTs by binding to tubulins dimer  
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Stathmin   Detach MTs from MTOC  
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