Amino acids
Top Gun
ER import
Protein trafficking
Secretory pathway
100

The smallest amino acid

What is glycine?

100

The call sign for Tom Cruise

What is Maverick?

100

The ER channel for importing proteins as they are synthesized

What is Sec61? (also acceptable "translocon")

100

The sequence that gets proteins out of the nucleus

What is a nuclear exit signal?

100

The coating protein that mediates ER-->Gogli vesicle traffic

COPII

200

The amino acid to which sugars are attached to inside the ER

What is asparagine?

200

The name of the aircraft that is flown in top gun

what is an F-14?

200

The protein that stalls translation when signal sequences emerge from the ribosome

What is signal recognition particle?

200

Met-Met-Ser-Phe-Val-Ser-Leu-Leu--Leu-Val-Gly-Ile-Leu-Phe-Trp-Ala-Thr-Glu-Ala-Glu-Gln-leu-Thr-Lys-Cys-Glu-Val-Phe-Gln

What is an ER signal sequence?

200

when proteins misfold in the ER and are sent back to the cytosol for degradation

What is retrotranslocation
300

An amino acid with a benzene (6 membered) ring that is hydrophobic

What is phenylalanine?

300

Maverick's wingman?

Iceman

300

The enzyme responsible for cleaving N-terminal ER signal sequences

What is signal peptidase?

300

Pro-Pro-Lys-Lys-Lys-Arg-Lys_Val

What is a nuclear important sequence?

300

the protein that deforms the membrane inward and is largely associated with endocytosis (and Golgi transport)

Clathrin
400

The largest of the three amino acids that can be phosphorylated

What is tyrosine?

400

Maverick's co-pilot

Who is Goose?

400

The protein that gets the stalled ribosome to Sec61

What is the SRP receptor?

400

Met-Glu-Glu-Leu-Ser-Gln-Ala-Leu-Ala-Ser-Ser-Phe

What is a nuclear export sequence?

400

this GPI-anchored cell surface protein appears to cause trouble when it is either in a transmembrane topology or cytosolic localization

prion protein (PrP)

500

the amino acid that doesn't pack nicely into a helical conformation

What is proline?

500

Max speed achieved in Top Gun Maverick test flight

What is Mach 10?

500
The enzyme that covalently bonds cysteine residues inside the ER

What is protein disulfide isomerase?

500

The sequence that leads to ER retention/retrieval

What is a "KDEL"?

500

This enzyme pinches off the "necks" of assembled vesicles and is required for vesicular transport

Dynamin

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