QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. Terminally differentiated cells go into the quiscent stage of the cell cycle also described as
G0 Phase
G1 Phase
G2 Phase
S phase
2. Cancer cells actively duplicate their genetic material in the stage of the cell cycle called;
S Phase
M Phase
G1 Phase
G2 Phase
3. Cyclin-dependent kinase 6 exerts its cell cycle progression effects by acting on these substrates
except;
Rb
SMAD2
P130
p53
4. An inhibition of the kinase activity of this cyclin-dependent kinase will result in a cell cycle arrest in
Gap phase 2?
CDK1
CDK2
CDK3
CDK4
5. In attempting to design a drug that will impede cell cycle progression in ovarian cancers cells. you
will want the drug to have this effect on the cells
Increase expression of CDK7
Increase the phosphorylation of the ATP-binding pocket of CDK1
Increase expression of CDC25A
All of the above
, 6. You are looking at the results of a western blot from the lysates of cells harvested from a
suspected breast cancer tumor and you see that there is an increased expression of INK4-p16,
you suspect that this will ?
Increase S to G2 phase transition
Initiate a cell cycle arrest in G1