BPA is a chemical compound that has historically been used in themanufacture of plastic products. However, cells often mistake BPAcompounds for hormones that accelerate the cell cycle. Because ofthis, BPA is associated with an increased risk of certain cancers. Question:  How might BPA interact with the cell cycle and its checkpoints?

Cancer cells typically lose cell cycle entry control. Explain how the following mutations, which are found in some cancer cells, lead to a bypass of these controls: (a) overexpression of cyclin D, (b) loss of Rb function, (c) loss of p16 function, (d) hyperactive E2F.

What are the most important steps in cell-cycle regulation? Give some explanations and present some factors leading to uncontrolled cell cycle.

During cell division cycle, cells need to monitor the process of DNA replication and segregation of replicated DNA so that these processes are error-free. Some potential errors that could occur include incomplete DNA replication, DNA damage in genome, and uneven separation of replicated genome. These mechanisms that cells used to monitor these processes are referred as the "cell cycle checkpoint, which can control specific Cdk activity to regulate the progression of cell cycle. For the following checkpoint mechanisms, indicate which Cdk activity is attenuated? Also indicate one of the key proteins or protein complexes involved in the following checkpoints. a) DNA damage checkpoint during S-phase b) Mitotic checkpoint during M-phase

What is the significance of the cell cycle control system and checkpoints? Explain step by step in your own words. [please make it simple]

By what molecular pathway does loss of cell cycle regulation in an organism lead to cancer? What genetic changes can cooperate to accomplish the cancer cell’s escape from the normal balance of cell growth?

BPA is a chemical compound that has historically been used in themanufacture of plastic products. However, cells often mistake BPAcompounds for hormones that accelerate the cell cycle. Because ofthis, BPA is associated with an increased risk of certain cancers. Question: Why do you think that very small concentrations of BPA mighthave a large effect on the cell?

Artificially induced apoptosis (controlled cellular death) is found to be an effective treat- ment for some forms of cancer. Which of the following describes the most likely mechanism by which apoptosis might be induced? A B с D by causing ribosomes to increase the rate of protein synthesis by triggering the division of mitochondria in the cell to increase ATP production by increasing the expression of membrane-bound glucose protein channels by causing lysosomes to release digestive enzymes into the cytosol

List and describe 4 of the main regulators of the cell cycle. Then describe the involvement of a CDK substrate at each stage of the cell cycle: G1, S, G2, M. 2. DESCRIBE (do not just list) three mechanisms that keep the cell cycle moving in only one direction. Then describe how these mechanisms play a role at one specific stage of the cell cycle. 3. What are the three main classes of genes implicated in cancer? Describe each one and give an example of each one. 4. DESCRIBE (do not just list) 4 developmental strategies that cause different cells and tissues to acquire different identities during embryogenesis. Then explain how iPS cells are an exception to the overall trend of cells decreasing in pluripotency as they develop. 5. Describe three unique cell biological features of sperm cells and three unique cell biological features of egg cells. By "unique", I mean a feature that is not common in most cells. 6. You have just identified a mouse gene that is homologous to other vertebrate…

One approach to studying the regulation of cell cycle progression (particularly in an era when genetic and molecular biology manipulations were less readily accomplished in mammalian cells) was to use treatments that induced cells to fuse and then monitor the behavior of the two nuclei in the resulting cell. The figure below depicts data from one such study.  The investigators did preliminary work to produce populations of cells that were synchronized in various stages of the cell cycle (G1, S, or G2 in the examples shown below). They then fused the cells in different combinations and monitored subsequent events in each of the nuclei. For purposes of this question, we will pay particular attention to what occurred in the nucleus that came from the cell in G1. In one experiment (I), cells in the G1 and S phases were fused.  That event caused the nucleus from the G1 cell to very quickly enter the S phase (sooner than it would otherwise have done so).  In contrast, in a second experiment…