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a. What would happen if there was a mutation that caused APC to always be phosphorylated? (2 points).
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Anaphase promoting complex or APC is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that regulates proteolysis of specific cell cycle proteins by the 26S proteasome. It is required to induce progression from metaphase to anaphase by the  breakdown of various cell cycle regulators like securin and cyclin M and S. Destruction of securin in metaphase activates a protease that separates the sister chromatids  and promotes anaphase. APC activity changes during the cell cycle, primarily as a result of changes in its association with an activating subunit either Cdc20 in mid-mitosis or Cdh1 from late mitosis through early G1. Cdc20 can only binds to APC after specific subunits are phosphorylated by the Cdk1. If a mutation that causes APC to always be phosphorylated then that cell would not complete cell cycle  due to the constitutive degradation of M and  S-cyclins. S cyclin  stimulate chromosome duplication. M-cyclins stimulate entry into mitosis at the G2/M transition.

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