L1 Regulation of cell cycle and tumour growth

8 important questions on L1 Regulation of cell cycle and tumour growth

Growth factor that inhibits proliferation at G1, and promotes differentiation and apoptosis of normal epithelial cells

What does it do in cancer?

TGF-beta

Since cancer cells and surrounding stromal cells (fibroblasts) are unresponsive, they produce much more and immune cells, endothelial and smooth-muscle cells nearby are stimulated- this causes immunosuppression, and angiogenesis, which makes the cancer more invasive. Also converts effector T cells into regulatory T cells

Experiment for cell-cycle control

(who's) (animal) (molecule)

Tim Hunt's classic experiment

sea urchin embryos

cyclin B - quick loss at mitosis

an autoradiograph made with radiolabelled proteins run of SDS-polyacrylamide gel

Draw cyclin cycles for B, nuclear D1, E and A


•Cyclin B increases towards start of M phase and is rapidly degraded in the end of mitosis before start of new cycle

•Nuclear Cyclin D level is shown here because after G1/S transition, its exported from nucleus back out to cytoplasm •Cyclin E levels rise quickly after going through R-point and collapse during S-phase
•Cyclin A increases as cell enters S-phase, collapse at G2
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Which Cdk complex is influenced strongly by extracellular signals (the only one that is)

how are the others co-ordinated?

cyclin D-CDK4/6

Others are controlled by cell autonomous programming, once cyclin D-CDK4/6 is formed this automatically progresses to E-CDK2 (end G1 phase) then A-CDK2 (S phase) then A-CDK1 (S phase) then B-CDK1 (G2 phase)

R point in G1 stands for?

restriction point

Full activation of cyclin-cdk complex given by?
enzyme, what it does, what happens (4 things)

CAK (Cdk-activating kinase) phosphorylates an activation loop (T loop) in Cdk

Suppression of inhibitory phosphorylation (at diff site)
Suppression of Cdk inhibitors
Proteolysis regulated
regulation of cyclin genes (transcriptional level)

Cyclin-Cdk inhibitory kinase called

cyclin-Cdk inhibitory proteins types

Wee1 kinase

INK (for CDK4/6) or Kip (for CDK1 and CDK2)

Before entering S phase what does D-CDK4 do?

phosphorylates (the tumour suppressor protein) pRb

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