fig. 11-2 muscle cell pancreas cells blood cells if all human cells have the same number of genes,...

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Fig. 11-2 Muscle cell Pancreas cells Blood cells If all human cells have the same number of genes, how can we have some 300 different cell types?

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Fig. 11-2

Muscle cell Pancreas cells Blood cells

If all human cells have the same number of genes, how can we have some 300 different cell types?

Figure 11.1B_1

Operon turned off (lactose is absent):OPERON

Regulatorygene

Promoter Operator Lactose-utilization genes

RNA polymerase cannotattach to the promoter

Activerepressor

Protein

mRNA

DNA

Figure 11.1B_2

Protein

mRNA

DNA

Operon turned on (lactose inactivates the repressor):

RNA polymerase isbound to the promoter

LactoseInactiverepressor

Translation

Enzymes for lactose utilization

Figure 11.1C

Inactiverepressor

Inactiverepressor

Activerepressor

Activerepressor

Lactose

Tryptophan

DNA

Promoter Operator Gene

lac operon trp operon

Figure 11.7_1

Chromosome Chromosome

DNA unpackingOther changes to the DNA

Gene DNA

TranscriptionGene

Exon

Intron

Tail

Cap

Addition of a cap and tail

RNA transcript

Splicing

mRNA in nucleus

NUCLEUSFlow through nuclear envelope

CYTOPLASM

Figure 11.7_2

mRNA in cytoplasm CYTOPLASM

Breakdown of mRNA

Translation

PolypeptidePolypeptide

Broken-downmRNA

Cleavage, modification,activation

Active protein Activeprotein

Amino acids

Breakdownof protein

Figure 11.2A

DNA double helix(2-nm diameter)

“Beads ona string”

Linker

Histones Supercoil(300-nm diameter)

Nucleosome(10-nm diameter)

Tight helicalfiber (30-nmdiameter)

Metaphasechromosome

700 nm

Figure 11.3Enhancers

DNA

PromoterGene

Transcriptionfactors

Activatorproteins

Otherproteins

RNA polymerase

Bendingof DNA

Transcription

Figure 11.4

DNA

RNAtranscript

mRNA

Exons

Introns Introns

Cap Tail

RNA splicing

or

1

1

1 1

2

2

2 2

4

4

4

5

5

55

3

3

3

Figure 11.5

miRNA

Target mRNA

mRNA degraded

or

Translationblocked

miRNA-proteincomplex

Protein

3

2

1

4

Figure 11.6

Folding of the polypeptideand the formation ofS—S linkages

Initial polypeptide(inactive)

Folded polypeptide(inactive)

Active formof insulin

Cleavage

S S

SS

S

SS

S

SS

SS

SHSH

SH

SH

SH

SH

Protein folding and activation (post-translational modifications)

Figure 11.2B

Cell divisionand random

X chromosomeinactivation

Early Embryo Adult

X chromo-somes

Allele fororange fur

Allele forblack fur

Two cell populations

Active X

Inactive X

Active X

Inactive XBlack fur

Orange fur

Epigenetics and imprinting

Figure 11.10

3

2

1

4

5

6

Signaling cell EXTRACELLULAR FLUID

Signaling molecule

Receptorprotein

Plasmamembrane

Target cell

Relayproteins

Signaltransductionpathway

Transcription factor(activated)

NUCLEUS

DNA

mRNA

CYTOPLASM

Transcription

Translation

Newprotein

Figure 11.18AGrowth factor

Target cell

Normal productof ras gene

Relay proteins

Receptor

Hyperactiverelay protein(product ofras oncogene)issues signalson its own

CYTOPLASM

DNA

NUCLEUS Transcription

TranslationProtein thatstimulatescell division

Transcriptionfactor

(activated)

Figure 11.18B

Growth-inhibiting factor

Receptor

Relayproteins

Transcription factor(activated)

Nonfunctional transcriptionfactor (product of faulty p53 tumor-suppressor gene) cannot trigger transcription

Normal productof p53 gene

Transcription

TranslationProtein thatinhibitscell division

Protein absent(cell divisionnot inhibited)