Exam 3

Question 1

Biological Membrane

Answer 1

lipid bilayer containing protein which completely surrounds and isolate biomolecules

Question 2

Ionophores

Answer 2

a biomolecule which facilitates the movement of ions across a biological membrane

Question 3

lipid

Answer 3

biomolecules which are insoluble or partially soluble in water and usually extractable by organic (non polar) solvents

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Cascade

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a series of biochemical reactions which amplify so that the number of final products is orders of magnitude greater than the number of initiating molecules

Question 5

Effector enzymes

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an enzyme component of a signal transduction pathway which is bound to a membrane, activated by a transducer and produces a second message

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Receptor

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a transmembrane protein component of a signal transduction pathway to which an external signal molecule will bind to and cause a conformational change and subsequently activate a transducer molecule

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Second Messenger

Answer 7

a molecule which is part of a signal transduction pathway and which was produces as a consequence of the binding of the extracellular signal

Question 8

signal transduction

Answer 8

usually combined with the word signal to refer to the transfer of information from one side of a membrane to another

Question 9

Nucleic Acid

Answer 9

biopolymers consisting of nitrogenous bases which are linked to ribose or deoxyribose linked by phosphodiester bonds

Question 10

mRNA

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is a class of RNA molecules which carries a copy of the sequence of nucleic acid bases from the DNA to the ribosomes where these sequences are translated into a series of linked amino acids to form proteins.

Question 11

tRNA

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this is a series of RNA molecules composed of 75-95 nucleotides, which are charged with an amino acid by the appropriate tRNA synthetase enzyme and which carry that activated amino acid to the ribosome. (transfer ribonucleic acid)

Question 12

snRNA

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this is a series of RNA molecules ranging in size from about 100-300 nucleotides long. (small nuclear ribonucleic acid)

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rRNA

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this series of RNAs combine with proteins to form ribo-somes. (ribosomal ribonucleic acid)

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Tm

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the temperature at which a particular molecular transition is 50% completed.

Question 15

annealing

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as the process by which two strands of complementary nucleic acid bases Bind to each other. (Kinetic Process, rate dependent upon concentration of strands in solution, length of these strands, and the uniqueness of the sequences)

Question 16

melting

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the process by which two strands of complementary nucleic acid bases Separate from each other. (Thermodynamic Process involving Tm, dependent upon percent composition of cytosine/guanine base pairs)

Question 17

Endonuclease

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a nuclease which cleaves an internal phosphodiester bond

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exonuclease

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a nuclease which removes one nucleotide from one end of a nucleic acid

Question 19

high energy bond

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this phrase refers to the phosphoanhydride bond found in ATP and ADP which has more energy of hydrolysis than what one might expect based on the bond energies

Question 20

restriction enzyme

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protein endonucleases, which cleave at a specific DNA sequence, which is typically a palindrome.

Question 21

domain

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a substructure of the tertiary structure that can evolve, function, and exist independently of the rest of the protein chain.

Question 22

motif

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a unique combination or folding of secondary structures.

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enthalpy

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the measure of the amount of heat generated under constant pressure

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entropy

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the measure of the disorder of a system

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Gibb's free energy

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is the amount of energy available to do chemical work

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transducer

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a protein component of the signal transduction pathway, which is activated by a receptor and in turn alters the activity of an effector enzyme

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Denaturation

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the process by which a biomolecule loses its biological function

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electrophoresis

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a technique of separation based on the movement of charged molecules in the prescence of an electric field

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Answer 29

PolyAcrylamide Gel Electrophoresis separation and/or analysis of proteins

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Isomers

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two different chemical compounds which have the same chemical composition but are physically distinct and separable

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Anomers

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a chiral center which is not initally present in a molecule and which is created by intramolecular bonding

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Enantiomers

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2 stereoisomers in which all the chiral center are switched

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Epimers

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2 stereoisomers which differ only in one chiral center

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diastereomers

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stereoisomers which contain more than 1 chiral chenter but are not mirror images of echer other

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proteins

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polymer of alpha amino acids linked by a peptide (amide) bond

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cooperativity

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occurs when the change in one parameter influences the change in similar parameters

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V_o (intial velocity)

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-d[S]/ d[t] when t = 0 the rate of change in the concentration of substrate or product per unit of time at the beginning of the reaction where little product is formed and when the back reaction is negligible

Question 38

V_max

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k_cat [E_t] the rate of enzyme catalyzed reaction with saturating concentration of substrates and is the product of the catalytic rate constant or turnover number and the total enzyme concentration

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Km

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(k_-1 + k_-2) / k_{1 the concentarion of substrate which yields half of the maximum velocity for an enzyme catalyzed reaction or is the concentration when the initial velocity is equal to half of the maximum velocity}