The Cytoskeleton

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Why does intermediate filaments have no polarity?
they assemble in an antiparallel way
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what are basal bodies?
like centrioles (for MTs) for cilia or flagella
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what is present in the lag phase of microfilaments (actin filaments)?
nucleating factors
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what do nucleating factors do to actin filaments?
overcome the energetically unfavourable step when forming a trimer
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which component of the cytoskeleton is not found in yeast/fungi?
intermediate filaments
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what do the associated proteins for intermediate filaments do?
cross linking
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what is type 3 of intermediate filaments?
desmin muscle
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what does the gelsolin actin binding protein do?
caps/severs or nucleates
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what role does microfilaments (actin filaments) have in fertilisation?
acrosomal head penetrates the egg by extending the acrosome with MFs
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what are the ring complexes on the centrosome made up of
gamma (Y) tubulin
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what end is far away from the centrosome?
+ end
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structure of basal bodies?
triplet MTs 3 rings of MTs fused together. Inner smaller one, connecting proteins between them
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what is type 1 and 2 of intermediate filaments?
epithelial keratins
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what are the major roles of MTs?
cell shape, movement and division
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what is the structure of MTs?
heteropolymer of alpha+beta tubulin. Dimers and 13 protofilaments
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how heavy is MTs heteropolymer?
50kD
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what are the cell type specific actins for smooth muscle?
alpha smooth muscle and gamma smooth muscle
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what is the critical concentration of polymerisation?
rate of addition = rate of loss
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what happens in dynamic instability?
all ATP (in actin) is converted to ADP its shrinks lose the GTP cap as nor wnoufh GTP tubulin to maitain
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what does the actin binding protein thymosin do?
monomer binding decreased assembly
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what is the cell type specific actin for striated muscle?
alpha skeletal and alpha cardiac
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what do Intermediate filaments do?
maintain structure and shape, protects nucleus
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where is the exposed GTP in microtubules, what subunit?
both alpha and beta subunit has GTP bound
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which subunit in MTs has the exposed GTP?
beta
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what are MTs?
24nm diamater hollow tubes
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what protein is MT made from?
tubulin
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what microtubule associated proteins are there?
map2, Tau, and dyenin and kinesin
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what do TAU and MAP2 do?
assembly promoting
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how many amino acids is actin filaments?
375
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is actin heteromeric or homomeric?
homomeric
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