Name:___________________________________ Section:_____7.012 fall 2003 17.012 Problem Set 8*PLEASE NOTE,: Questions 1 - 3 cover material from lectures 23-25 and thus would be goodpractice for Quiz III.Question 1You have isolated cells from an alien organism called Sacul Sinned. You want to know if thesecells contain proteins that are similar to the cyclins found in eukaryotic cells. To this end, youradioactively label all the proteins in the cell to allow for visualization on a gel. You thensynchronize the cells by placing them in low serum for 1 day. Finally, you stimulate the cellswith PDGF and isolate protein from the cells at different time points. The proteins are thenrun out on a gel similar to a DNA gel, such that the proteins are separated by size and you canvisualize them through their radioactivity.a) Circle the protein bands on the gel that would be good candidates for cyclin proteins?Explain your choices.b) How many cell cycles did your time points cover if each of the protein bands you selectedabove are actually cyclin proteins? Explain you answer.12345876Please print out this problem set and record your answers on the printed copy. Answers tothis problem set are to be turned in at the box outside by 4:10 Wednesday, November26. Problem sets will not be accepted late. Solutions will be posted on the web November 27,2003.MIT Biology Department7.012: Introductory Biology - Fall 2004Instructors: Professor Eric Lander, Professor Robert A. Weinberg, Dr. Claudette GardelName:___________________________________ Section:_____7.012 fall 2003 2Question 1, continuedc) What does synchronization do to the cells and why is it necessary for this experiment?d) Why does low serum or no serum synchronize your cells?e) Since you used PDGF in your experiment and it stimulates your cells to divide, you assumethe alien cells contain a protein similar to the PDGF receptor. How does PDGF binding to thereceptor cause the activation of the receptor and subsequent promotion of the cell cycle?Name:___________________________________ Section:_____7.012 fall 2003 3Question 2Your professor Flow Enirehtac asks you to learn more about the PDGF receptor inside thesealien cells. In order to discover the function of various regions in the protein you create cellsthat no longer express the wild type form of the receptor but various truncated forms.You then use an antibody against the PDGF receptor in order to visualize where in these cellsthe protein is located. You find that the PDGF receptor protein is found in the cytosol of all thecells.a) All the truncated forms of the PDGF receptor are missing sequence form one end.• Which end of the receptor protein is likely to have been deleted?• Why would this deletion change the localization of the PDGF receptor?b) You look closely at many other cell lines that fail to respond to PDGF.i) Type 1 cells have a single gene mutation and fail to respond to all growth factors.Antibody staining of these cells shows that many different membrane proteins are nowfound free in the cytoplasm. Which component(s) of the protein secretion pathwaymight be missing in Type 1 cells.ii) What other kinds of proteins might be affected in Type 1 cells?iii) Type 2 cells do not respond to PDGF because PDGF receptor proteins are secretedout of the cell. What kind of mutation would lead to this result?Name:___________________________________ Section:_____7.012 fall 2003 4Question 3In order to study genes involved in the progression of cancer you do gene expression analysis.To do this you compare the mRNA levels of normal cells versus tumor cells. What you findfrom this experiment is that some genes are upregulated in the tumor cells i.e. they have anincrease in the mRNA levels of a certain gene and that some genes are downregulated in thetumor cells meaning that they have a decrease in the mRNA levels of certain genes. You alsohave some genes whose mRNA levels stay the same.a) What is the most likely function of the genes that are upregulated in the tumor cells?b) What is the most likely function of the genes that are downregulated in the tumor cells?c) What is the most likely function of the genes that are the same in tumor and normal cells?d) You find out later that one of the genes whose mRNA levels stayed the same actually playsa critical role in the progression of cancer. How can this be?e) You clone the gene from (d) and you discover that it is p21Ras. You then take normalfibroblasts and overexpress this allele of the Ras gene in them. To your surprise the cell do notproliferate, but stop dividing. Give an explanation of for this outcome.Name:___________________________________ Section:_____7.012 fall 2003 5Question 4Shown below is a schematic representation of an antibody made in B cells.a) Label the following structures (i) – (v) on the antibody diagram.i) the light chainsii) the heavy chainsiii) the antigen binding sitesiv) the variable regionsv) If this were a secreted antibody, indicate the region of the antibody that would interact withmacrophages.vi) If this were a membrane-bound antibody, indicate the membrane-spanning region of theantibody.b)i) List two ways that antibody diversity is created.ii) What are the interactions between the light and heavy chains that make them associate witheach other? What kind of bonding is this?Name:___________________________________ Section:_____7.012 fall 2003 6Question 4, continuedc) Name the cell type of the immune system that would:i) bind an antigen floating around in the blood.ii) recognize an antigenic peptide on a MHC Class II protein displayed by a macrophage.iii) recognize an antigenic peptide on a MHC Class I protein displayed by an infected skin cell.iv) nonspecifically engulf and digest a variety of pathogens (disease-causing organisms).v) secrete large amounts of antibody in response to an infection.vi) recognize a viral infected body cell and destroy it.vii) Provide long-lived immunity to measles in children immunized against the measles virus byinjection of viral proteins.d) Will an individual who does not express MHC Class II proteins on the surfaces ofB cells and macrophages produce a humoral immune response? Explain your answer.e) Below is a drawing of a putative human virus pathogen.viral protein "Nas T"viral protein "Stk E"i) Which viral protein(s) is likely to raise an antibody response in a natural infection? Why?ii) Which viral protein(s) likely trigger a cell-mediated response
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