Growth Factors

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Structural Basis for Biological Function (Basics) Quiz on Growth Factors, created by gina_evans0312 on 04/11/2013.
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Question 1

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Epidermal Growth Factors are 53aa long, with an Mr of 40,000
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 2

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What happens when you increase ornithine carboxylase and polyamine concentrations?
Answer
  • Cell division increases
  • Cell division decreases

Question 3

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In general effects ( inc glucose/aa transport and inc Na/K ATPase activity) what hormone are growth factors most like?
Answer
  • Insulin
  • Glucagon
  • Vasopressin
  • NO

Question 4

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Increase Na+/H+ pump activity causes what?
Answer
  • Alkylysation of the cytoplasm
  • Inc. DNA synthesis/mitosis
  • Inc protein production

Question 5

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How is tyrosine kinase kept inactive when a ligand is not bound?
Answer
  • The activation lip hides the active site
  • The active site is phosphorylated and inactive
  • A pseudosubstrate is bound

Question 6

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What form does inactive tyrosine kinase stay in?
Answer
  • Monomer
  • Dimer
  • Multimeric group

Question 7

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What effect does ligand binding have to tyrosine kinase?
Answer
  • Partial activation
  • Dimerisation
  • Monomerisation
  • Full activation

Question 8

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Once the activation lip is phosphorylated, what happens?
Answer
  • Phosphorylation continues of tyrosine kinase
  • Becomes fully active
  • Becomes partially active
  • Proteins bind to phosphorylated areas

Question 9

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Which of the following binds to phosphorylated tyrosine kinase?
Answer
  • GRB2
  • RAs
  • GEF
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