Biochemistry Flashcards
(200 cards)
Chromatin structure
DNA loops twice around the histone OCTAMER to form a nucleosome (BEADS ON A STRING)
H1 histone binds to linker DNA
Euchromatin = less condensed Heterochromatin = condensed (more methylation and less acetylation)
Charge of DNA
(+) due to lysine and arginine “its a (+) experience at dLA”
(-) Phosphate groups
DNA methylation
Histone Methylation
Histone acetylation
DNA is methylated in imprinting ( DNA/histone epigenetic process that silences an allele without changing the DNA sequence)
Methylation of a gene promoter (CpG islands) typically represses gene transcription.
Histone methylation - reversible transcriptional suppression. But can also activate depending on where the methyl group is.
Histone acetylation - relaxes DNA coiling and active DNA
Nucleotides
note: Nucleosides lack a phosphate but a nucleotide has a phosphate thats linked by a phosphodiester bond 3’-5’
more G-C bonds = higher melting temp
PURe As 2 Gold Rings - purines are adenine and guanine which has 2 rings
CUT 1 slice of Py - pyrimidines are cytosine, uracil, and thymine which have 1 ring
Deamination products of nucleotides
Deamination is the process of losing a amino group
Cytosine –> uracil
Adenine –> hypoxanthine
Guanine –> xanthine
5-methylcytosine –> thymine
methylation of uracil makes thymine
AA necessary for purine synthesis
Cats purr until they GAG (glycine, aspartate,glutamine)
Purine synthesis
Ribose 5-P —– phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate (PRPP) synthase —> PRPP —> IMP –> AMP or GMP
de novo requires aspartate, glycine, glutamine, and THF
Pyrimidine base production
Requires aspartate
CPS= carbamoyl phosphate synthetase
CPS1 = m1tochondria (ureal cycle). Deficiency causes hyperammonemia)
CPS2=cyTWOsol
Glutamine + CO2 —CPS2 and 2ATP–>carbamoyl phosphate
Carbamoyl phosphate + aspartate –> orotic acid
orotic acid + PRPP –> UMP (step is impaired in orotic aciduria)
UMP –> UDP –> dUDP OR CTP
UDP –ribonucleotide reductase —> dUDP –> dUMP –thymidylate synthase and THF —> dTMP + DHF
DHF is replenished via dihydrofolate reductase to reform THF which is used to make more dTMP
A major cause of autosomal recessive SCID( severe combined immunodeficiency)
SCID - Disturbed development of functional T and B cells
Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency (ADA deficiency) - ADA is required for degradation of adensosine and deoxyadensosine. If deficient we have increase in dATP nucleotide which causes lymphotoxicity.
Adenosine –ADA–> Inosine –> –> uric acid –> excreted
Purine salvage
refer to picture
Patient presents with hyperuricemia (orange “sand” in diaper), gout, is pissed off/aggressive, self mutilation, retardation/intellectual disability, dystonia
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is xlinked recessive
Defective purine salvage due to absent HGPRT (hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyl transferase) which is needed to convert hypoxanthine to IMP and guanine to GMP.
Accumulation of xanthine results in excess uric acid and de novo purine synthesis (from new rather than via salvage pathway)
Orange sand is sodium urate crystals
H-yperuricemia/uric acid accumulates in the brain G-out P-issed off/self mutilation/aggression R-etardation T-dysTonia
Exception to the genetic code features
unambiguous
degenerate/redundant ( methionine/AUG and tryptophan/UGG are only encoded by 1 codon)
commaless/nonoverlapping ( Except in some viruses)
universal (except in mitochondria of humans)
Promoters and origin of replication is rich in
AT sequences (i.e. TATA box regions)
DNA topoisomerase
Creates a single or double stranded break in the helix to add or remove supercoils
Primase
RNA primer for DNA pol III
DNA polymerase III
Prokaryotes only
has 3’–>5’ exonuclease activity which proofreads
DNA polymerase I
prokaryotes only
same as DNA pol III, exonuclease activity
degrade RNA primer and adds DNA
Telomerase
Eukaryotes only
reverse transcriptase/RNA dependent DNA polymerase
adds DNA : TTAGGG to 3’ end of chromosomes
Transition vs transversion
DNA mutation that is purine to purine vs purine to pyr (viceversa)
What DNA mutation causes sickle cell disease
Missense mutation where glutamic acid is replaced with valine
Nonsense mutation
early stop codon ( UAG, UAA, UGA) –> nonfunctional protein
What DNA mutation causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Frameshift mutation affecting the DMD gene
Lacks functional dystrophin gene and cannot stabilize/protect mm fibers
What DNA mutation causes Tay Sachs disease
Frameshift mutation
lack enzyme that breaks down fatty substance gangliosides which then build up in th brain and destroy the nervous system (motor deficit, blind, deaf)
LAC operon
glucose is the preferred metabolic substrate in E. Coli. If glucose is absent but lactose available then lac operon is activated to switch to lactose metabolism.
low glucose –> increase in adenylate cylase activity –> increase generation of cAMP from ATP –> activation of catabolite activator protein (CAP) –> increases transcription
High lactose –> unbind repressor protein from repressor/operator site –> increases trancription
allolactose is an inducer that inactivates repressor