Apoptosis and Necrosis

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  • Created on: 19-02-19 14:22
What is Necrosis?
Uncontrolled cell Death, that's associated with disease.
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What is Apoptosis?
Programmed cell death or cell suicide
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Nam some common features of Apoptosis?
Cell shrinkage, surface blebbing, does not affect neighbour cells
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Name some common features of Necrosis?
Cell swelling, membrane rupture, promotes death of neighbour cells
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What is the importance of apoptosis?
Embryo development, immune system, homeostasis, cancer (radiotherapy)
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How is apoptosis triggered?
Receptor or Mitochondria mediated. Both involve the activation of proteases called caspases.
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What are caspases and describe their function?
Cysteine-aspartic proteases. They exists as inactive pro-enzymes in cells. After cleavage, they activate other caspases in a cascade.
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What are the two types of caspases?
Initiator caspases and effector (executioner) caspases
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What is the function of initiator caspases?
They activate other caspases.
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What is the function of effector caspases?
They break down cellular components like the cytoskeleton and DNA.
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What is the role of the plasma membrane in apoptosis?
Phosphatidylserine in the inner lipid layer flips over to the outer layer and acts as a signal to trigger macrophages.
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What is the role of mitochondria in the apoptosis pathway?
Cytochrome C is released into the cytosol from the mitochondria and acts as a trigger for apoptosis
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What forms a apoptosome?
Cytochrome C and cystolic proteins
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What is required to make an apoptosome?
Cytochrome C, Apaf-1, Pro-caspase 9 and ATP
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What is the function of the Bcl-2 family of proteins?
Regulation of cytochrome C release from the mitochondria
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What is the function of anti-apoptotic proteins?
Act to block the action of the pro-apoptotic.
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What is the function of pro-apoptotic proteins?
Promote the formation of large pores into outer membrane that leads to release of cytochrome C.
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What is necrosis driven by and name some examples?
Extrinsic factors: Infection, direct toxic threat, freezing, trauma
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Necrosis is a caspase independent process? TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE
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What is necroptosis?
Programmed, controlled necrosis that shares some features with apoptosis.
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What controls necroptosis?
Molecular switches that choose between apoptosis and necrosis. This is regulated by receptor interacting protein (RIP) kinases
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