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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Protein dynamics in development and cancer - MB151P107E
Title: Protein dynamics in development and cancer
Czech title: Dynamika proteinů ve vývoji a rakovině
Guaranteed by: Department of Cell Biology (31-151)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2019
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Lukáš Čermák, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Lukáš Čermák, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : MB151P107
Is incompatible with: MB151P107
Annotation -
One-semester lecture course focused on deepening of knowledge about molecular mechanisms of protein dynamics and protein stability. The main aim of the course is to understand the proteasome-ubiquitin system and its function in the regulation of cell cycle, development, immune response, autophagy or protein quality control.
Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
Literature -

Literature is based on contemporary summarizing articles and articles describing current important discoveries concerning the topic of individual lectures.

Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
Requirements to the exam -

Current review papers which will focus on the lectures and which will be distributed before the lectures.

Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
Syllabus -

LECTURES OF WINTER SEMESTER:

1. Protein stability - introduction

2. Proteasome

3. Ubiquitin ligase

4. Regulation of protein stability in the cell cycle

5. Regulation of protein stability in development

6. Protein degradation associated with ER

7. Autophagy - lysosome

8. Protein degradation in response to cytotoxic stress

9. Summary

Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
Learning outcomes -

Learning outcomes (A) – MB151P107E Protein dynamics in development and cancer


After successfully completing the course, the student will:


1. Define and use in the correct context the key terms of proteostasis and protein stability regulation (UPS, ubiquitination, E1/E2/E3, proteasome, degron,
DUB, ERAD, UPR, autophagy, proteotoxic stress).


2. Schematically illustrate and explain the steps of the proteasome-ubiquitin system
leading to selective protein degradation (from labeling to substrate degradation)
and draw the consequences of inhibiting key nodes of this pathway.


3. Distinguish and compare the main types of ubiquitin ligases according to the principle of substrate recognition and determine how a change in ligase activity can affect the stability of the target
protein.


4. Apply the principles of directed degradation to cell cycle regulation: in a given case, identify a key degradation step and derive the impact of its disruption on cycle progression.


5. In a developmental context, analyze a model example where protein stability controls the developmental process and predict the phenotypic consequences of changes in degradation (increased/decreased stability).


6. Describe and illustrate ER-associated degradation (ERAD) and explain how disruptions in protein quality control in the ER lead to cellular responses to stress.


7. Distinguish the main forms of autophagy and select appropriate indicators/procedures for verifying changes in autophagic flux; subsequently interpret what these changes mean for cellular proteostasis.


8. Connect protein degradation with the response to cytotoxic stress and the immune response and explain the mechanism using a specific example discussed in the course.

9. Interprets typical experimental results regarding protein stability/turnover and justifies which regulatory mechanism is best compatible with the data (including the necessary controls).

10. Reads a scholarly (review or original) article on the subject, briefly summarizes the main points and evidence, critically evaluates the limitations, and proposes a testable hypothesis including an experimental design.

Last update: Gáliková Kristýna, Mgr. et Mgr., DiS. (19.02.2026)
Entry requirements - Czech

Zvládnout výuku v anglickém jazyce. Zkouška je pro česky mluvící studenty vedena v češtině

Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (21.02.2018)
 
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