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Covalent bonds

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equal sharing of electrons

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What are the types of non-covalent bonds?

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hydrogen bonds, electrostatic bonds, hydrophobic interactions and van der waals interactions

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What are the characteristics of non-covalent bonds?

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much weaker, require around 5 kcal/mole to break, break quite easily under physiological conditions, determine how molecules interact with each other and the shape of molecules

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What are the characteristics of hydrogen bonds?

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an attractive force between a H atom in a polar covalent bond and the unpaired electrons of another electronegative atom….where H is the donor and the electronegative atom is the acceptor

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The strength of hydrogen bonds is dependent on?

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distance and orientation

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What are the characteristics of an electrostatic bond?

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an attractive force between a negative and positive charged atoms where strength is dependent on distance but not orientation

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What are hydrophobic interactions?

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a solvent effect in water where the water molecules push non-polar molecules together

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What determines strength of hydrophobic interactions?

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the surrounding hydrogen bonds that push the molecules together

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what is a van der waal force

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the attraction between two neutral atoms

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Definition of an acid

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a molecule that can donate or release a H+ ion (proton)

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definition of a base

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a molecule that can accept or react with a hydrogen ion, H+

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Conjugate base

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dissociation of an acid creates a conjugate base that can accept a proton to regenerate the acid

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conjugate acid

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protonation of a base will produce a conjugate acid that can donate the proton to regenerate the base

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what acids dissociate completely?

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strong acids (HCl or H2SO4)

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Weak acids and weak bases exist in_______ with their conjugate species

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equilibrium

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definition of pH

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pH= -log[H+], higher pH means lower H+ and lower pH means higher H+

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why are H+ and pH so important?

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many biological molecules undergo acid-base equilibrium and the amount of acid or base is dependent on H+ concentration……the higher the H+ content the more an acid is favored (AH)

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what is Ka?

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the acid dissociation constant, is a measure of the position of equilibrium

ka is the H+ concentration at exactly half of A is protonated

Ka= [H+][A]/[HA]

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what is pKa?

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pKa=-logKa

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Henderson-Hesselbalch equation

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pH= pKa + log [A]/[HA]

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what happens when pH=pKa?

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exactly half of A is unprotonated and the other have is protonated……equilibrium

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What happens when pH is one unit higher than pKa?

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90% of solution is A (dissociated)

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what happens when pH is two units higher than pKa?

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99+% of solution is A (dissociated)

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what happens when pH is one unit lower than pKa?

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90% of solution will be HA (protonated)

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what is buffering?
a substance that can react with either H+ or OH- to get rid of excess H+ or OH-. The buffer decreases a pH change
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Buffers work well when?
pH is near their pKa
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what is the most important physiological buffer?
bicarbonate
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metabolism generates ______ in the body
acidity
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what is the structure of amino acids?
carboxylic acid group, amino group, r group/side chain, and a H all about an alpha caarbon
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the carboxyl group of an amino acid is usually _______ while the amino group is usually _______
deprotonated, protonated
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What are the non-polar amino acids?
glycine, alanine, proline, valine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, methionine, tryptophan
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What are the characteristics of non-polar amino acids?
have methylene side chains that cannot form hydrogen bonds, usually found in the center of protein structures, are abundant components of protein
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What are the polar amino acids?
serine, threonine, tyrosine, cysteine, asparagine, glutamine
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What are the characteristics of polar amino acids?
interact well with water through hydrogen bonding on their side chains, and usually found on the surface of proteins
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What are the aromatic amino acids?
phenylalanine, tryptophan, tyrosine
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What are the characteristics of the aromatic amino acids?
they are usually hydrophobic and buried within protein structures tryptophan is the least abundant amino acid in proteins
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what are the sulfer containing amino acids?
cysteine and methionine
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what ate the characteristics of sulfer amino acids?
many extracellular proteins are held together in part by disulfide bridges
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What are the negatively charged amino acids?
aspartate and glutamate
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What are the positively charged amino acids?
arginine, lysine and histidine
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What are the characteristics of the charged amino acids?
they mostly protrude at the surface of proteins and are often found making electrostatic interactions with other residues
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what is a zwitterion?
a molecule with a positively charged amino group and negatively charged carboxyl group
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What is isoelectric point?
the pH at which a molecule has no net charge pI= (pk amino group + pk carboxyl group)/2 or pI= (pk1 + pk2)/2 when there re two carboxyl groups
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What is the overall protein structure?
amino acids are joined by peptide bonds/amide bonds, then many amino acids are joined end to end by peptide bonds to form polypeptides, then long polypeptides come together to form a protein
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what happens in a peptide bond?
the carboxyl group of one amino acid is connected to the amino group of another amino acid and they lose their acid-base characteristics...... a water molecule is also lost
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Peptide bonds have a partial ___________ that makes them planar and rigid because of ______
double bond character, electronic resonance
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What level of protein structure dictates shape and function?
primary
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what is the primary structure of a protein?
simple chain of amino acids
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What are the two secondary protein structures?
alpha helix and beta sheets
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What are the characteristics of alpha helix?
the carboxyl oxygen accepts a hydrogen from a residue 4 locations down in the sequence. this repeating interaction stabilizes the helix at which the R groups protrude at regular intervals.
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What are the characteristics of beta sheets?
beta sheets form hydrogen bonds with other beta sheets, adjacent R groups interact and beta turns can be formed by the hydrogen bonding
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What are triple helixes?
cable like structures of great tensile strength, only polypeptides with glycine residues every third position can be used, examples are collagen chains *****the H on the alpha carbon sticks in the middle so no other R group can fit besides glycine
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What holds primary structure together?
covalent bonds
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What holds secondary structures together?
hydrogen bonds
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what holds tertiary and quaternary structures together?
non-covalent bonds
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What are globins?
protein structures that are primarily alphahelical, have no beta structures, but all helix connected by turns
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what determines the folding structure of a protein?
amino acid sequence
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what is Keq?
a way to describe equilibrium Keq= products/reactants
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when Keq>1
only a small amount of reactant is present..... it favors the products
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when Keq<1
a small amount of product is present....it favors reactants
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what does G0 tell us?
the same thing as keq
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G0>1
the reaction is non-spontaneous, favors the reactants and absorbs energy
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G0<1
the reaction is spontaneous, favors the products and produces energy
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Keq and G0 tell us NOTHING about?
how fast a reaction goes
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ATP is thermodynamically____but kinetically _____
unstable, stable
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What is a catalyst?
lowers the energy of activation and increases the rate at which a reaction proceeds towards equilibrium
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Keq and G0 depend on?
the initial and final states, which is why they are not altered by the presence of a catalyst
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Enzymes do not alter the
equilibrium of a reaction
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what is enzyme kinetics?
quantitative description of enzyme activity as a function of substrate concentration
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what is an enzyme catalyzed reaction?
at very high substrate concentration the curve approaches a theoretical limit corresponding to the saturation of the catalyst
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saturation kinetics model
E + S <-----> ES ------> E + P the rate of product formation is proportional to the enzyme substrate complex (ES)
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Additional Increase in substrate concentration will.......
not increase the reaction rate
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Michaelis Menten Equation is?
reaction rate as a function of substrate concentration
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What is Km?
michaelis constant, when the substrate concentration is at half of Vmax meaning half the enzyme is saturated
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What is Vmax?
a measure of the maximum capacity of the enzyme. it depends on how much enzyme is present
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What is enzyme inhibition?
usually refers to reversible inhibition meaning removal of inhibitor results in rapid recovery of enzyme
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What is enzyme inactivation?
refers to irreversible effects
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what are the two types of reversible inhibitors?
competitive and non-competitive
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What are competitive inhibitors?
bind in a mutually exclusive fashion with substrate but inhibition can be overcome by high substrate concentration
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what are non-competitive inhibitors?
do not compete with substrate for same binding site, can bind in the presence or absence of substrate, and inhibition cannot be overcome with high substrate concentration
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Competitive inhibitors do what to km and vmax?
vmax stays the same but km increases
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non-competitive inhibitors do what to km and vmax?
vmax decreases but km stays the same
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lead and mercury
are heavy metals that react with -SH groups and act as irreversible inactivators of many enzymes

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