BIO130H1 Lecture : Second Half Lecture 1 Part 2 (lec2)

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Bilayer division: cytosolic face (leaflet): usually faces the cytosol, not always. Exoplasmic face (leaflet): faces inside the lumens of organelles or outside of the cell. Asymmetrical use of bilayer: glycolipids synthesized on luminal (exoplasmic) face. Pass through entire lipid bilayer: amphiphilic, hydrophilic domains when in contact with aqueous solution, hydrophobic domains when in contact with non-polar molecules, act as receptors (for signalling) and as ion/particle channels. Lipid anchored membrane proteins: amphiphilic alpha-helix anchors itself in cytosolic face of bilayer, hydrophobic regions attach to non-polar tails, hydrophilic regions bind to various proteins, anchor directs proteins to cytosolic face. Peripheral membrane proteins: does not insert itself into bilayer, binds to other proteins on either face by non-covalent interactions. Peripheral membrane proteins use gentle extraction, lipid bilayer conserved. Integral membrane proteins require detergents to destroy bilayer for extraction: detergent: small amphiphilic molecules that destroy the bilayer.

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Cholesterol is transported in the bloodstream in lipoproteinparticles. There are several classes of lipoprotein particles, butone of the most important classes is called Low-densitylipoproteins (LDL). LDL particles are composed of a single moleculeof a large protein called apolipoprotein, as well as thousands ofcholesterols molecules and phospholipids. Part of theapolipoprotein forms the surface of the particles and faces theaqueous phase, while other parts face the hydrophobic interior ofthe particle where they interact with cholesterol and thehydrophobic tails of the phospholipids. When cells need additionalcholesterol, they produce a receptor protein on the surface oftheir plasma membrane that binds to the apolipoprotein andinitiates the uptake of LDL particles into the cell via a processcalled endocytosis.

1. What is the likely reason that LDL particles are used totransport cholesterol in the blood stream?

a. Cholesterol in LDL particles easily inserts into lipidbilayers

b. Cholesterol id largely insoluble in aqueous solutions

c. Cholesterol is synthesized within LDL particles

d. LDL particles can form lipid rafts in the lipid bilayer

2. What is the most likely location of phospholipids in LDLparticles?

a. Bound to the hydrophilic domain of apolipoprotein

b. In the lipid bilayer that surrounds LDL particles

c. On the surface interacting with the aqueous environment aswell as interacting with the hydrophobic core of the particle

d. Within the hydrophobic core of the particle

3. What best describes the class of protein that apolipoproteinbelongs to?

a. Amphipathic proteins

b. Cell surface proteins

c. Membrane associated protein

d. Multipass membrane proteins

4. What kind of molecule on the surface of the cell would bemost likely to serve as a receptor for LDL particles?

a. a cholesterol binding protein

b. a glycolipid

c. a phospholipid

d. trans membrane protein

5. What conditions would be most likely to trigger increaseduptake of LDL particles by cells?

a. increased glycolipid synthesis

b. increased plasma membrane growth

c. increased protein secretion

d. increase protein synthesis

Hybridomas are the useful result of a fusion between _______________ and _________________ to obtain hybrid cells that can proliferate and produce _________________ against specific ________________.

	myeloma cells; B lymphocytes; monoclonal antibodies; epitopes
	myeloma cells; T lymphocytes; polyclonal antibodies; antigen
	T lymphocytes; B lymphocytes; monoclonal antibodies; antigen
	T lymphocytes; B lymphocytes; polyclonal antibodies; epitopes

With respect to mammalian cell culture, which of the following statements is true?

	Media used for cell growth contain proteases and a divalent cation chelator to help cells adhere to the surface.
	During the establishment of a cell line, senescence is the last stage of the cell's life.
	Rodent cells cultures undergo spontaneous transformation with similar frequency to human cell cultures.
	Embryonic cell lines do not undergo senescence nor do they have a finite life span.

Epithelial cells have distinct surfaces. Which of these surfaces tends to be involved in secreting proteins out of the cell and into the bloodstream?

	apical
	basal
	All of the answers are correct.
	lateral

Which of the following is NOT true of phospholipid bilayers?

		Phospholipid bilayers separate the cell from the exterior environment as well as from compartments within the cell.
		The interior of phospholipid bilayers is a highly hydrophobic environment.
		Membrane budding requires transient breakages in the bilayer membrane.
		The chemical properties of phospholipids lead to the spontaneous formation of bilayers.

Which of the following is true regarding membrane proteins?

		All peripheral membrane proteins contact the lipid bilayer by covalent attachment to the hydrophilic head groups on membrane lipids.
		Beta strands can assemble into a membrane-spanning barrel structure.
		Lipid-anchored membrane proteins always face the cell exterior.
		A protein with six hydrophobic helices is most likely a lipid-anchored membrane protein.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

		The three types of lipid anchors responsible for tethering proteins to the bilayer are acylation, prenylation, and ubiquitinylation.
		Movement of lipids from the cytoplasmic to the exoplasmic leaflet of the membrane bilayer requires specialized transport proteins called flippases.
		Glycoproteins are the basis for blood type compatibility between donor and receiver.
		Glycoproteins are always oriented so that the carbohydrate moieties are exoplasmic.

Both phospholipids and proteins are asymmetrically located in cell membranes - meaning the outer half and the inner half of the bilayer contain different phospholipids and the proteins have a cytoplasmic side and an "out" side. When detergents are used to disrupt the membrane, creating a water soluble mixture of lipids and proteins, and then the detergents are removed by dialysis, the lipid bilayer will reform spontaneously. Except now the asymmetry is gone and both proteins and lipids are located randomly in the newly formed membrane. What does this tell you about how the cell synthesizes cellular membranes?

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