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carbohydrates

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What are the use of carbohydrates?

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Source of energy/stored fuels (glycogen granules)

Provide structure to cells and organisms (cellulose in plants, chitin in arthropods)

Cell biology
-major component cell surface
Influence the function of proteins
recognition interaction

Information molecules

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Why are cell surface sugar important

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Cell-cell adhesion
Bacteria adhesion
Virus attachment to host cell
Binding of toxin to cell surface

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What does gene encodes

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Protein, no surgars

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What defines monosaccharide

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The simplest form of sugar (basic unit of carbohydrates)

Aldehyde or ketones that ahve 2 or more hydroxyl groups

[C-H2O]n (carbon hydrate)

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What are aldose

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aldehyde group

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What are ketose

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ketone

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How to define glyceraldehyde

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Has a single asymmetric (chiral) carbon atom

D- and L- are enantiomers or mirror images

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What are the number of carbon atoms monosaccharides can have

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More or equal to 3 carbon

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What are 3 carbon sugars called

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triose

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What are 4 carbon sugars called

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tetrose

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What are 5 carbon sugars called

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pentose

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What are 6 carbon sugars called

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hexose

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What are 7 carbon sugars called

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heptose

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Which monosaccharides are most common

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Hexose (6C)

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How many asymmetric centers does hexose have?

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4, 16 stereoisomers, Most are D isomers

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3 most abundant hexose

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D-glucose, D-mannose and D-galactose

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What are the 2 tetrose aldose

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2, Erythrose and threose

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What are the 5C aldose

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4, Ribose, arabinose, xylose, lyxose

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What are the 6C sugars

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8, allose, altrose, glucose, mannose, gulose, idose, galactose, talose

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D-Erythrose

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4C, OH like a E

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D-Threose

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4C, Left then right

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D-Ribose

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5C, All right side

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D-arabinose

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5C, Left right right

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D-xylose

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5C, Cris-cross right left right

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D-lyxose
5C, Like arab, left left right
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D-Allose
6C, All right
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D-altrose
6C, top carbon left, the rest are right
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D-Glucose
6C, La li la la
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D-Mannose
6C, nn, so its 2 pairs, left left right right
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D-gulose
6C, lose, almost the last Right right left right
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D-Idose
6C, Reciprocate to say I do, left right left right
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D-Galactose
6C, Like a galaxy edge, u shape, Right left left right
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D-Talose
6C, All left except for for last
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What are epimers
configuration around one carbon
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Which hexose are epimers
D-mannose, D-glucose, D-galactose
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What happens when hexose cyclize
Forms pyranose ring
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How can monosaccharides be modified
Addition of chemical groups (GalNAc)
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What is the fisher projection?
Like a fishing rod
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What is the haworth perspective
Cyclic, Right is down
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How are disaccharide called and formed
Glycosidic bonds, condenses the OH group and eliminate H2O
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What are alpha linkages in disaccharides
Alpha is OH down
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Whare beta linkages in disaccharides
Beta is OH up
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What are the rule of glycosidic linkages regarding the OH group
Always involve C-1 of the left sugar(first)
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What large polymeric structures called
Polysaccharides
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Examples of unbranched homopolysaccharides
Cell wall (cellulose) and chitin for animals (exoskeleton)
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What can branched carbohydrates used for
Starch (plants) and glycogen (animals)
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What linkage does the branch point of carbohydrates have
alpha-1,6 glycosidic bond
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What bond does unbranched glycogen have
alpha 1,4 linkages
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What are the ends of the oligosaccharides
Nonreducing sugar (left), reducing sugar (right) Side with OH beside the O can be further reduced
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How do you determine sugar concentration?
By measuring CuO2 (red) after adding Cu2+(blue) (used to determine blood glucose levels) Benedict's solution copper citrate
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What linkage are cellulose
glucose residues linked by Beta 1,4 glycosidic bonds
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How are cellulose so stable
Stabilized by H bonds, result in long flat molecule, chains can form interchain hydrogen bonds
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What is the structure of chitin
linear homopolymer of N-acetylglucosamine residues similar to cellulose- only difference is the presence of an acetylated amino group at C-2
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What is the structure of glycogen and starch (storage polysaccharide)
alpha 1,4 linkage, open helix structure ( Provides an accessible store of sugar )
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What are carbohydrate groups that are covalently attached to many proteins
Glycoproteins, short oligosaccharide, function in recognition
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How are carbohydrate linked to proteins
Via asparagine residue (N-glycans) Via Serine or Threonine residues (O-glycans)
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What enzymes are responsible for oligosaccharide assembly
Glycosyl (sugar) transferase Nucleotide-monosaccharide (e.g. UDP-Glc) + Acceptor (carbohydrate) ---> monosaccharide-Acceptor + nucleotide monosaccharide is transferred from the nucleotide sugar to the non-reducing end of the carbohydrate acceptor synthesis of the disaccharide lactose β1,4 galactosyltransferase UDP-Gal + Glc (Acceptor) ---> Gal β1,4 Glc + UDP
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What are the Human ABO blood groups
carbohydrate antigens
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What are the ABO blood group antigens
glycosphingolipids
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What is the oligosaccharide antigens of A antigen
GalNAc
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What is the oligosaccharide antigens of B antigen
Gal
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How many gene control the synthesis of ABO blood groups
one
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What does the ABO blood group gene encode
glycosyltransferase (enzyme)
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What does glycosyltransferase (enzyme) do
synthesis of particular oligosaccharides (high specific)
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Where does specific residue connected to in the antigen?
C2 of the terminal galactose
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How are antibodies produce?
occur naturally in individuals
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What antigen does AB blood have
Both A and B
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What antibodies does O blood have
None
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What does antibodies do in blood
Antibodies will cross link the “foreign” red blood cells (agglutination)
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What Does Lectins do
recognise carbohydrates
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What is C-type lectins
Calcium binding lectins
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What does calcium in c-type lectin do
acts a bridge between the protein and the sugar through direct interaction with sugar hydroxyl groups
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Example of C-type lectins
Selectins
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What is the role of selectins
* Are involved in cell-cell adhesion | * Bind white blood cells to sites of injury and allow movement of cells from blood stream to site of infection
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How does most virus attach to host cell
vio carbohydrate
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How does white blood cell binding to site of inflammation?
Selectin binding followed by integrin binding
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How does virus bind to cell surface
Binds to the receptors( may be carbohydrates)
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Where does influenza virus binds to
recognizes sialic acid residues present on cell surface glycoproteins
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What is the anti-flu drug
relenza, is a sialic acid analogue
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How does RELENZA work
inhibits the enzyme NEURIMINIDASE from flu virus to prevent virion from releasing, which halt viral replication
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What is the Reaction between the CHO group at C-1 and the OH group at C-5 linkage called
hemiacetallinkage
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Percentage of β-D-glucopyranose that exist
64%
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How does GLUT1 transport glucose
Central polar region allowing the Glucose interactions (shielded from the hydrophobic environment of the bilayer core)
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How does GLUT1 move?
Ligand bound occluded when glucose enter, then inward open, outward open when glucose goes through after ICH attach the ligand binding
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What is the mid point of the transporter graph called
Kt (analogous to Km (enzyme))
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Where is GLUT1 found and what it is used for
everywhere, basal glucose uptake
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Where is GLUT2 found and what it is used for
Liver, pancreatic islets, intestine In liver and kidney, removal of excess glucose from blood In pancrease, regulation of insulin release
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Where is GLUT3 found and what it is used for
Brain(neuronal), testis (sperm) Basal glucose uptake
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Where is GLUT4 found and what it is used for
Muscle, fat, heart Activity increased by insulin
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What is insulin for
Prevent glucose in blood to going too high

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