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Central dogma

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  • DNA is replicated and stores information
  • DNA is transcribed to make RNA
  • RNA is modified and translated to make proteins
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What carbon position determines if it is ribose or deoxyribose?

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Carbon position 2

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What Bases are different between RNA and DNA

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DNA has thymine

RNA has Uracil

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What carbon position has the anhydride bonds that provide energy?

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-carbon position 5

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What are the building blocks of DNA and RNA?

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  • 5 carbon sugar

- nitrogenous base

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Carbon 1 on sugar

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  • covalently linked to a base

- glycosidic bond

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Carbon 2 on sugar

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  • hydroxyl group in RNA

- no oxygen in DNA

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Carbon 3 on sugar

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  • hydroxyl group in both DNA and RNA
  • required for polymerization of nucleic acid
  • joined to the 5 carbon by phosphodiester bond
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Carbon 5 on sugar

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  • liked to one or more phosphates

- joined to carbon 3 of an adjacent nucleotide through phosphodiester bond

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Is DNA polar or non polar?

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  • POLAR
  • free phosphate group at the 5’ end
  • free hydroxyl group at the 3’ end
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What kind of bonds join the nucleotides in DNA?

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-phosphodiester bonds

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What kind of bonds link bases in DNA?

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-glycosidic bonds

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if no end designation is made, you should assume DNA is going…

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5’ to 3’

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When writing a sequence backwards, how should DNA be written?

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you have to specify 3’ to 5’

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antiparallel

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-the two strands of DNA are opposite in direction

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complementary

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  • A matches with T
  • C matches with G
  • via hydrogen bonds
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How many hydrogen bonds like the complementary bonds?

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A:T has 2
C:G has 3

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Chargaff’s rule

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  • A=T, C=G

- A+T+C+G=100%

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If DNA has 10% G, what is the % of the others?

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G=10%
C=10%
A=40%
T=40%

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What kind of grooves are associated with the double helix?

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  • major and minor grooves
  • important for regulatory proteins
  • important for gene expression regulation
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Which part of DNA is hydrophilic?

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  • sugar-phosphate backbone
  • has a negative charge
  • is on the outside of the helix
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Which part of DNA is hydrophobic?

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  • hydrogen bonded base pairs
  • perpendicular to the axis of symmetry
  • form the stairs of the helix (on the inside)
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DNA is…

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Directional and amphipathic

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What is a right handed helix called?

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  • watson-crick DNA
  • B-DNA
  • most common
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Left handed helix
- less common - high CG content - Z-DNA - function unknown
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Denaturation and renaturation of DNA
- mechanical and chemical | - important for replication and transcription
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Melting DNA
- heat denatures double stranded DNA | - Hydrogen bonds between base pairs are broken, but phosphodiester bonds linking nucleotides are not broken
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Tm
Temperature required to melt 50% of the DNA in a sample
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CG content and Tm
-high CG content means higher Tm
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AT content and Tm
-high AT content means lower Tm
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What happens if DNA cools?
-hydrogen bonds will reform and the DNA will renature
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another word for renature
reanneal
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What happens if DNA denatures and then reanneals in a way that is not the most stable?
-it will denature again and reanneal until it reaches the most stable form
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Organization of DNA
- genomes are HUGE - length of DNA in one cell is 2 meters - DNA is thin and long
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Supercoiling
-DNA gyrase does supercoiling in prokaryotes and mitochondrial DNA
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Quinolones
- inhibit DNA gyrase | - toxic in high concentrations
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DNA in the nucleus of eukaryotes
- associates with histone and non histone proteins to form nucleosomes - nucleosomes are packaged tightly to form chromatin
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Why package DNA ?
- protects DNA from denaturation | - but you have to have some DNA loose for gene expression
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Histones
- rich in lysine and arginine(+charged basic amino acids) | - bind tight to negatively charged DNA
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Histone octamer
- two units of EACH histone:H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 aggregate and form it - DNA wounds around it to make a nucleosome
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Beads on a string
- a group of free nucleosomes(without H1) - sensitive to nuclease degradation - necessary for gene expression
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nucleofilament
-histone H1 associates with the DNA between the nucleosomes to further condense the DNA into a thick 30nm fiber
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Condensation
- important for cell division | - condensation of nucleosomes forms chromatin and chromosomes
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KEY RNA and DNA differences
- Sugar - thymine/uracil - DNA is DS and RNA is SS - RNA can base-pair back on itself - RNA is smaller - DNA stores information and RNA expresses information
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RBC
- no nucleus, so cant store DNA | - they have some mRNA that helps them
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What are the three major types of RNA that act in conjunction with proteins to allow infor from DNA to be translated into proteins?
-mRNA, rRNA, tRNA
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mRNA
- messenger RNA - prepared in a way in which it can get into the cytosol and be recognized - vary in size depending on the size of proteins encoded
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Eukaryotic mRNA
5' terminus contains a m7G-cap structure (contributes to getting recognized and not getting degraded) -3' terminus contains poly-A tail(helps ribosomes recognize the end and let it be released)
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Prokaryotic mRNA
-DO NOT CONTAIN SPECIAL TERMINAL STRUCTURES
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all mRNAs
- 5' untranslated region - 3' untranslated region - coding region
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rRNA
- associates with proteins | - mostly structural to combine with proteins to form ribosomes
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What are the different sizes associated with eukaryotes rRNA
80s 60s 40s
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What are the different sizes associated with prokaryotes rRNA
70s 50s 30s
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What are the sizes given in?
"s" - Svedberg - unit of sedimentation value
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tRNA
- small(80 nucleotides) - covalently linked to specific amino acid - CCA-3' terminus acts as amino acid attachment site
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Anticodon loop
- on tRNA | - determines amino acid specifically by base pairing with mRNA during translation
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CCA-3' terminus
- amino acid attachment site on tRNA | - covalently attached
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Anticodon form
-complimentary strand then put it back in 5'-3' form
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hnRNA
- heterogeneous nuclear RNA - pre-mRNA - represents mRNA in various stages of processing in the nucleus of eukaryotes - in nucleus, just recently transcribed
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snRNA
- small nuclear RNA - only in nucleus of eukaryotes - combine with certain proteins to form snRNPs
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snRNPs
- used for splicing hnRNA to form mRNA - splice out introns - in eukaryotes
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Ribozymes
-RNAs that act as enzymes

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