Block 1 Flashcards
(113 cards)
Schleiden and Schwann
cell theory: all living things are made of cells and cell products
Hooke
cells remnants in cork
Virchow
cell pathology as the basis of disease
Dutrochet
staining samples for light microscope
sectioning
4 steps
fix (remove water)
embed in rigid agent (LM paraffin, EM plastic) and slice
get embedding out
mount
condenser
focuses light on specimen.
objective and eye piece
focus light on eye
bright field
best with stains, bad resolution, no living samples
phase contrast
no staining, but no thick objects
dark field
see borders of tiny structures, low light means hard to see
fluorescence
mark with antibodies. can tag specific structures, before and afters. Expensive, must excite specific wavelength
EM
cellular details, very expensive. focuses ray of electrons
resolution
r=.61(lambda)/n sin theta
higher index of refraction=lower r= higher resolution
glycosylation
nonvertebrates keep mannose tree. verts trim and add terminal sialic acid.
ganglioside
lipid + sugar
Eukaryote Transcription
in 3 steps
- TFs bind at TATA, recruit RNA poly II.
- RNA poly II is phosphorylated, TFs fall off, transcription begins
- New RNA formed 5-3 w/energy from XTP
Post-transcription Processing
5’ cap (modified G), 3’ AAA tail
Introns spliced out (exons expressed) in loops by spliceosomes
Chromatin activity
hetero is inactive, encased by methylated histones
eu is active (acetylation=active)
Methylation at CpG islands
turns off gene RNA processing
3 transcription regulations
- activators (can be way upstream)
- metabolic product + or - feedback
- RNAi: 3’UTR bound by microDNA is destroyed
start codon
AUG
AAs associated with shape
glycine: small R good for turns
cystine: makes disulfide bonds (**not in reducing cytoplasm)
proline: makes kinks (ring interrupts H bonds)
membrane protein shape in cell and mito membranes
cell: alpha helices
mito: beta sheets
rossman folds
6 parallel beta strands & 2 pair alpha helices bind nucleotides (NAD)