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1
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Structural components of viral envelope

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Gag, pol, env

2
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What is Src ?

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protein Tyrosine kinase

-enz that catalyse transfer of phosphate

3
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Collet and Erikson

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Developed a Src antiserum

  • incubated src imminopreicpitates with gamma32P- ATP
  • looked at transformed and untransformed
  • expose it to film sensitive to energy range of particles emitted by radioactive substance s- darkness where radioactivity present
4
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Transformed cells elicit what type of behaviour

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anchorage independent growth

5
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Tony Hunter - Polyoma Large T experiment

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-Take polyoma large t radioactively phosphorylated
-Incubate in HCL and hydrolyses everything to single amino acids
-Chromatography and electrophoresis in 2D
Differential solubility – separated out
-Polyoma was phosphorylated on another a.a
But made buffer incorrectly – couldn’t repeat
Found phosphotyrosine
Phosphotyrosine kinase phenomenon
- PH buffer change

6
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Src

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Tyrosine kinase

  • induces functional changes in whatever it “touches”
  • promiscuous- phosphorylates anything
7
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How did they show function of Src ?/

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Developed an antibody specifically binds to phosphotyrosine in a western blot
-Recognises phosphorylated proteins just phosphorylated on the phsophotyrosine

-Shows Src doing a lot phosphorylating things on tyrosines

8
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phosphorylation

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Occurs everywhere

9
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Stan Cohen - experiment into Growth factors

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  • Using HeLa cells

- cells in culture require a serum, purify out this serum - GF fulfil serum requirements

10
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Cohens questions

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What does bind to the growth factors in cell s?

  • attached an epidermal growth factor EGF to a solid support
  • mush up HeLa cells and pass extract through column where EGF is bound
  • Eluted the contents – what ws the nature of stuff in tube and was it homogeneous
  • Only one protein – huge degree of purification
11
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Cohens Protein

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EGF-R - found using sanger sequence and proteolysis -
what bits do what ?
- chopped it into three bits and ran on a gel ( unknown functional protein)
incubated with Radioactive EGF
- part that bound

12
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Techniques to identify Cohens protein?

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Take the material and chop it up
Digest it with a protease and isolate various peptides
Automated protein sequence – sanger sequencing
Screened gene libraries to identify the gene
Chopped it up again using a proteolytic mechanism
Specific proteolysis – generates 3 fragments
Then ran them on a gel
And incubated with radioactive egf

13
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how do you work out the structure ? how do we know EGF-R goes through the membrane ??

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Plot a graph of how hydrophilic/phobic amino acids are then can move along 3 at a time
Hydrophobic inside of molecule
EGF-R bit that goes through them membrane – hydrophilic

14
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significant homology is shown between what structures ??

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EGF-R similar Homology to a phosphotyrosine kinase

15
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What does Cohens findings suggest ?? two explanations

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• Growth factors induce their cellular effects by
triggering a tyrosine kinase signalling pathway
• Oncogenes might work by triggering signalling pathways in the absence of appropriate extracellular cues

16
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How do growth factors elicit an effect ??

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Growth factors induce their cellular effects by triggering a tyrosine kinase signalling pathway

17
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Kyte and Doolittle plot

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The plot has amino acid sequence of a protein on its x-axis, and degree of hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity on its y-axis.

18
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EGF-R

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Receptor Tyrosine kinase

19
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Evidence that EGF-R was working by phosphorylating things in the cell

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Amount of Phosphotyrosine in response to growth factors in cells goes up
- amount of Phosphotyrosien goes up significantly in the presence of EGF-R

20
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EGF-R structure

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tyrosine kinase with Transmembrane domain have receptor on the outside that brings together subunits of tyrosine kinases and phosphorylate themselves

21
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Immunofluroescene exp allows look at what

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Immunofluroescene exp allows look at what happened at the pm when trigger EGF-R – is there phosphorylation occurring

  • Know EGF- R is phosphorylating things at the PM
  • signalling goes up
22
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Oncogenic mutation- How might they work ?

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mutation can bring about a functional receptor in the absence of extracellular cues

23
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Principles of RTK signalling

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  • Receptor in off state often monomeric
  • ligand binding incuces dimerisation or de-auto-inhibition
  • increased local concentration of active receptor kinase and receptor substrate results in trans- phoshporylate
  • Phospho- receptor act as a platform for signalling events
24
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Receptor tyrosine kinase theme

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Variations between kinases

  • The kinase may not be tyrosine
  • cytoplasmic domain may not be a kinase