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What does allostery do?

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It alters affinity response

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What does a 100 fold change in ligand concentration lead to?

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9 fold change in fractional occupancy

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What is a graded response?

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Continuum

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What is a linear response?

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Stepwise

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What does an ultrasensitive response look like?

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It is steeper (10 fold change in input for 9 fold change in fractional occupancy)

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On a linear scale, what do graded and ultrasensitive responses look like?

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Graded response is hyperbolic, while ultrasensitive response is sigmoidal

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What is a graded response similar to?

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A dimer

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What is an ultrasensitive response similar to?

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A switch

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What is cooperativity?

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Binding of one ligand molecule changes the affinity for the second ligand binding

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What is allostery?

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Binding occurs at a different site (not the active site)

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What is needed for allostery?

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More than one binding site

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True or false: all cooperative binding is allosteric

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False: not all cooperative binding is allosteric

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What is an example of cooperative binding that is not allosteric?

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2 binding sites on DNA for transcription factors, can increase or decrease binding

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Why is allosteric feedback common at the beginning of biochemical pathways?

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Can regulate whether the pathway proceeds or not (it has the proper substrates)

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What is the MWC model of allostery?

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Induced fit model, change conformation of active site

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In a plot of E vs conformation, what would the MWC model predict?

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The graph would shift to the right (conformational shift)

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What is the KNF model of allostery?

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Transient formation of low and high state, binding shifts equilibrium

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In a plot of E vs conformation, what would the KNF model predict?

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A narrower curve (population shift)

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True or false: ligand binding changes protein dynamics

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True: this affects the jiggles and wiggles of the protein

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How does bacterial chemotaxis work?

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When bound to a repellant, CheY is phosphorylated, causing clockwise rotation and tumbling

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What type of response is pCheY?

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Ultrasensitive response

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What is the general structure of a protein kinase?

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N lobe, C lobe, and ATP pocket

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What is found in the N lobe of a protein kinase?

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DFG motif (activation loop)

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What regulates the DFG motif in a kinase?

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Helix alpha C

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What does the P loop do in a kinase?
Covers ATP product
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What does a kinase cycle between?
Active and inactive states
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What happens when the activation loop is phosphorylated?
It locks the kinase into the active configuration
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How does helix alpha C regulate the kinase?
It can either break salt bridge, or flip DFG motif
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What are kinase cascades an example of?
An ultrasensitive switch (multiply system output)
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Is the response of MAPK3 shallow or steep and why?
Shallow (initial protein in cascade)
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Is the response of MAPK shallow or steep and why?
Steep (amplification by enzyme activity)
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What affects the steepness of the response?
Cooperativity
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What is positive cooperativty?
Increases affinity (Kd1 > Kd2)
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What is negative cooperativity?
Decreases affinity (Kd1 < Kd2)
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How does positive cooperativity change the slope steepness?
It increases it
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How does negative cooperativity change the slope steepness?
It decreases it
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What is the significance of negative cooperativity?
Wide range of sensitivity (extend dynamic range, better at detecting high vs. low)
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How does oxygen transport work?
Load hemoglobin with high O2 in lungs, release with low O2 in tissues
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What is the importance of myoglobin?
It scavenges O2 away from hemoglobin to keep O2 levels low
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What is the structure of hemoglobin?
4 subunits
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What happens when O2 binds to a hemoglobin subunit?
It causes a conformational change, and increases affinity
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How does hemoglobin give rise to cooperativity?
Switch between different states of affinity
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What is the high affinity state in hemoglobin?
R
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What is the low affinity state in hemoglobin?
T
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If hemoglobin goes from R to T, what cooperativity is this?
Negative
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If hemoglobin goes from T to R, what cooperativity is this?
Positive
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What is the response to switch between 2 affinity states?
A sigmoidal response
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What happens at f/(1-f) = 1?
f = 0.5, Kd = L
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How can you find Kd from f/(1-f) and L?
Plot f/(1-f) and log(L), and log(Kd) is when f/(1-f) = 1
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What happens if two isotherms are far apart?
There is stronger cooperativity?
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What quantifies binding cooperativity?
Hill coefficient (slope in log (f/(1-f)) vs log(L) plot at half ligand saturation)
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What is the formula for hill coefficient?
nH = 2/(1+sqrt(Kd2/Kd1))
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What happens if nH > 1?
Positive cooperativity (slope > 1)
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What happens if nH < 1?
Negative cooperativity (slope < 1)
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What is the maximum of nH?
2
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What is the minimum of nH?
0
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What does the maximum value of nH represent?
The minimum number of interacting binding sites
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What is the max nH for hemoglobin?
4
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What happens if Kd1 = Kd2?
nH = 1, no cooperativity (no change in affinity)
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What is the structure of deoxyhemoglobin?
It has a twisted heme group
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What happens when deoxyhemoglobin becomes oxygenated?
The heme group is flattened, changing the conformation and changing affinity states (rotation)
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What does biphosphoglycerate do?
It stabilizes deoxyhemoglobin
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What do BPG and CO2 have in common?
They reduce oxygen affinity binding
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What is allosteric regulation?
Stabilize low affinity state
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What is the Bohr effect?
Fine tune O2 transport by decreases in pH
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Which has the higher pH: lungs or tissues?
Lungs
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How does CO2 impair oxygen affinity?
It interacts with K40 and D94 to disrupt salt bridge

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