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42 Cards in this Set
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What are the five functions of the Cell Skeleton?
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What are the two general "areas" of the Cytoskeleton and describe them?
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What are the two forms of Intermediate filaments and what cells are they found in?
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What are the five subtypes of Intermediate fillaments and describe them
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What is the structure and functions of Intermediate filaments? Where do their differences arrise?
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What are the steps in the assembly of an intermediate filament?
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Small pools of what forms of IFs may exist and what for?
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What special thing can be done to the IF network and how?
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What can mature IFs do?
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What does the lack of IFs in some eukaryotic cells suggest?
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What do IF's appear to do (general one sentence blurp)
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What are the functions of IFs? (6)
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What are microtubules made up of? Describe them
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How do the MT subunits associate?
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What is the name of MAPs and where do they bind?
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What are the categories of MAPs and describe them?
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MT's can be assembled in vitro in the presence of what?
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What are the stages in assembly of a MT in vitro?
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How can the lag phase be eliminated in vitro?
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What does MTOC stand for and what are its 3 important properties?
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What are the 3 major varities of MTOCs and describe them
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Describe Dynamic Instability and what it is. (include also its role in cell division)
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How do MTs help move and shape the cell?
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What are the two types of Microtubule Motors and describe them and their functions
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Describe the structure of actin
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Describe the structural assemblage of MF
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Describe in vitro assembly of MFs
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What are the 4 MF associated proteins?
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What do monomer binders do?
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What do capping proteins do?
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What do linking proteins do?
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What are the 2 types of motor proteins? (don't describe them yet)
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What does Myosin I do?
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What are the steps in the "cross bridge cycle"?
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What does Myosin II do?
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What are the four stages of locomotion?
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What happens in polarity determination?
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What happens in Leading Edge protrusion?
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What are the proposed models for how protrusion occurs?
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What happens in Sustrate Adhesion?
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What happens in Traction/cell movement?
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