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Lecture 12 - Genetic Recombination Flashcards

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Why do genes need to have stability?

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Genome conservation, DNA repair, void cancer and genetic disorders

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Why is genetic diversity needed?

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Meiosis, antibody diversity, adaptation and evolution

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What are the 5 mechanisms of genetic recombination?

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Homologous recombination, non-homologous end joining, transposition, site-specific recombination and independent assortment of chromosomes.

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Homologous recombination - what happens after a double strand break?

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The ends are processed by a nucleuses - the RecBCD complex.

The broken DNA can then invade an intact homologous DNA

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Homologous recombination - what helps strand invasion?

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Recombinant (RecA)

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Homologous recombination - what happens after invasion?

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The broken DNA is repaired by using the intact DNA as a template for replication and faithfully synthesise missing DNA.

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Homologous recombination - what are Holliday junctions?

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The 4 DNA branch structures

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Homologous recombination - what can cleave Holliday junctions?

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Resolvable called RuvABC

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Homologous recombination - where can ruvABC cleave?

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It has the choice between side ways and above/below - this will make different molecules

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Homologous recombination - what happens if both Holliday junctions are cleaved on the same strand?

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No-crossover - REMEMBER CHANGE STRANDS AT THE ARROWS

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Homologous recombination - what happens if the RuvABC cuts different strands?

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Crossover - REMEMBER YOU FOLLOW THE ARROWS

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When does Homologous recombination take place?

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DS break, ds DNA fragment, DNA single stranded gap

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Non-Homologous end Joining - what does this repair

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double stranded break and is good for diversity

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Non-Homologous end Joining - what happens after a DS break?

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The end are protected by Ku which keeps the ends next to each other.

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Non-Homologous end Joining - what happens after Ku has bonded?

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Sometimes they will naturally ligaments together, other times they need to be processed first

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Non-Homologous end Joining - what happens during end processing?

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This is carried out by different enzymes - nucleotides are added due to polymerase and removed by nucleuses. Nucleotides can be modified by phosphotase. This changes the original DNA

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Non-Homologous end Joining - what happens after end processing?

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Lig4 ligands the ends together.

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What is transposition?

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Movement of transposable elements within and between elements.

This is an origin of genetic diversity

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site-specific recombination - what does it need at specific target sites to work?

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Recombinase

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site-specific recombination - what does recombinase do?

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Binds at specific target sites and cleaves DS DNA at specific sequences which allows the change of order before they rejoin once more

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site-specific recombination - what does the nature of the change rely on?

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The orientation of the target sites - head to head or head to tail

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site-specific recombination - what does a target site orientation of head to head mean?

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They are going in the opposite orientation

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site-specific recombination - what does head to tail orientation mean?

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They are in the same orientation

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site-specific recombination - what are the consequences of inversion (head to head) recombination?

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There is an inversion of the sequence between the two target sites

Part of the target sites are also exchanged (arrows)

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site-specific recombination - what are the consequences of deletion/ integrate (head to tail) recombination?

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Line up the arrows - whether this is a deletion or an integration depends on the molecule.

The recombinase lines up the target sits creating a loop. This then leads to 2 products - a circle containing the DNA sequence between the 2 target sites (and one Target site) being excised and the original molecule without the DNA which previously sat between the target sites and only one target site.

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site-specific recombination - can the 2 products recombine to form the original strand?

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Yes

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site-specific recombination in nature - e.coli replicate on the inside of the circle which means straight DNA can be bad for them. What template is used for the repair?

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The inside one

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site-specific recombination in nature e.coli - what is the product of this repair?

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Non-crossover or crossover - these are still circular

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site-specific recombination in nature - e.coli - what happens if there is crossover?

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They can’t go into their own cell and therefore must be unlinked before that.

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site-specific recombination in nature - e.coli - how do they unlink crossed DNA?

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Site specific recombination - a specific head to head target site called dif and the recombination is done by xerCD recombinase which causes a second crossover which then lets them unlink.

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Following infection of bacteria wha can bacteriophage lambda do?

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Use its host to replicate in the lambic cycle or insert its DNA and force the host to replicate that.

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How does the lambda bacteriophage integrate or excised from the bacteria it is infecting?

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Site specific recombination

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Lambda genomes recircularise after entering the bacteria genome. This now makes them able to enter e.coli chromosomes - how?

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They line up their attp site with attB sites on the e.coli chromosomes and uses the int protein to insert themselves.

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Is lambda and e.coli genome recombination reversible?

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Yes

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What are the composite sites formed called?

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AttL and attR

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Are attp and attB sites different?

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Yes which means more enzymes need to be used for integration

37
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Site specific recombination in flagellar phase variation in Salmonella? - where are the target sites?

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Head to head

38
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Site specific recombination in flagellar phase variation in Salmonella? - what does the fljb gene encode?

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Protein which makes flagellum

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Site specific recombination in flagellar phase variation in Salmonella? What does fljA encodes?

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Regulator protein which represses fljc

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Site specific recombination in flagellar phase variation in Salmonella? - what does fljc encode?

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Another flagellum protein

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Site specific recombination in flagellar phase variation in Salmonella? Where is the promoter of fljb?

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In between 2 head to head target sites

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Site specific recombination in flagellar phase variation in Salmonella? - what happens if the promoter is in front of fljb?

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The flagellum is made up of fljb protein

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Site specific recombination in flagellar phase variation in Salmonella? - what happens when the signal is inverted?

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Fljb and fljA proteins aren’t produced and therefore fljc is no longer repressed and we can form fljc flagellum’s.

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Bacteriophage Mu tail fibre variation - what type of recombination event - head to head or head to tail?

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Head to head

45
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Bacteriophage Mu tail fibre variation - this is made up of many protein - what codes for the constant part?

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sc

46
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Bacteriophage Mu tail fibre variation - this is made up of lots of proteins - what codes for the variable part?

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so or sv+

47
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Bacteriophage Mu tail fibre variation - what is the second protein?

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U or U+

48
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Bacteriophage Mu tail fibre variation - what does gin seen on the end of the tail encode?

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Recombinase which can interrupt the genome between the target sites to encode either scSvU or ScSv+U+

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