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Nucleotides functions

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  • structural component of DNA and RNA
  • carriers of activated intermediates (UDP-glucose formation)
  • secondary messengers in signal transduction (cAMP, cGMP)
  • energy currency of the cell (ATP)
  • regulators of many pathways
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Nucleotide structural components of coenzymes

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  • CoA
  • NAD+
  • FAD
  • NADP+
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Main structural features of nucleotides

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  • Nitrogenous base

- sugar (can have phosphate associated)

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Types of nitrogenous bases

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  • purines

- pyrimidines

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Purines

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  • nitrogenous base
  • adenine and guanine
  • dicyclic
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Pyrimidines

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  • nitrogenous base
  • cytosine, thiamine (DNA), uracil (RNA
  • unicyclic
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Sugar of a nucleotide

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  • ribose in RNA

- deoxyribose in DNA (missing O)

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What links the 2nd and 3rd phosphate on a nucleoside triphosphate (ATP)?

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Anhydride bonds, high energy bonds driving many biochemical reactions
-this is why we can use them as energy source

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Nucleoside

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Nitrogenous base + sugar (no phosphate)

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Nucleotide

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-nucleoside + 1-3 phosphate groups

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Where is the ribose 5-phosphate from in purine synthesis

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HMP shunt

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Purine synthesis

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  • dicyclic so they are bigger and more complicated

- we are essentially building base on a sugar molecule

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Step 1 of purine nucleotide synthesis

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-PRPP synthetase catalyzes the formation of the activated pentose

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PRPP synthetase

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  • in step 1 of purine synthesis

- catalyzes the formation of the activates pentose

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PRPP activator

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Inorganic phosphate

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PRPP inhibitor

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Purine ribonucleotides

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Where is the pyrophosphate attached in purine synthesis?

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1’ carbon, which is where the nitrogenous base will be attached

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PUrine nucleotide synthesis default

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Production of ribonucleotides

-if deoxyribonucleotides are needed, further steps will be taken

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Is the rate limiting step the first step of purine synthesis?

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No

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Rate limiting step of purine synthesis

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  • catalyze by PRPP amidotransferase

- committed step

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After PRPP amidotransferase catalyzes purine synthesis…

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The following steps are basically just modifying your base to get your purine
-amino acids become part of the nitrogenous bases

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Folate

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Required for purine synthsis, required for subsequent steps as a carbon donor

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What form does folate need to be in to be activated?

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THF

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Dihydrofolate reductase

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Required to make THF, the form in which folate is used

  • have to have this enzyme to continue pathway.
  • obtained from diet
  • bacteria synthesize there own
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PRPP amidotransferase inhibited by
Purine nucleotides (end products)
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PRP amidotransferase reductase activated by
PRPP (substrate)
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IMP can be utilized as...
AMP and GMP
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What is the rate limiting and committed step in purine synthesis catalyzes by?
PRPP amidotransferase
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6-Mercaptopurine
- purine analog - acts like IMP, GMP, and AMP - inhibits the PRPP amidotransferase - cancer treatment - can be misincorporated into the synthesis of purines and script the structure
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What drug inhibits PRPP amidotransferase?
6-Mercaptopurine
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Methotrexate
- folic acid analog - anti-tumor - inhibits dihydrofolate reductase
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How does methotrexate affect dihydrofolate reductase?
- inhibits nucleotide biosynthesis - inhibiting rapidly dividing cells selectively - specific to mammalian cells
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What is a drug that inhibits dihydrofolate reductase?
Methotrexate
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Sulfonamides is the analog to...
PABA
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What does sulfonamides do
Competitive inhibit of bacterial production of folic acid | -bacterial purine synthesis inhibited
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What do sulfa drugs act as?
Antibiotics
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What do sulfa drugs do in bacteria?
-binds to enzyme that produces folate, inhibits THF, can't produce purines
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CPS II (Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase II)
-rate limiting, committed step in pyrimidine synthesis
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What is the rate limiting, committed step in pyrimidine synthesis?
CPS II
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What is CPS II activated by?
PRPP
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What is CPS II inhibited by?
UTP (End product)
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What two amino acids become part of the nitrogenous base structure of pyrimidines?
- glutamine | - aspartate
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What provides the pentose for the pyrimidine?
PRPP
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Once the pyrimidine bases are produced, what happens?
They are attached to PRPP
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How do ribonucleotides get converted into deoxyribonucleotides?
Ribonucleotide reductase
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Hydroxyurea
-anti tumor drug that inhibits ribonucleotide reductase
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What drug inhibits ribonucleotide reductase?
Hydroxyurea
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Hydroxyurea in sickle cell anemia treatment
-increases the synthesis of fetal hemoglobin
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Thymidilate synthase
Plays a role in additional steps to convert dUMP into dTMP
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What is thmidylate synthase inhibited by?
5-FU
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What will affect the production of DNA, but not RNA?
Hydroxyurea and 5-FU | -are especially good at targeting rapidly dividing cells
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What is required for thymidylate synthesis?
Folate, which then requires dihydrofolate reductase
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What is dihydrofolate reductase inhibited by?
Methotrexate
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Trimethoprim
Class of antibiotics that is selective for the prokaryotic version of dihydrofolate reductase
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Class of antibiotics that is selective for the prokaryotic version of dihydrofolate reductase
Trimethoprim
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Sulfonamides
- antibiotics | - target enzymes in bacteria that make folic acid
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What are sulfonamides selectively;y toxic for?
Prokaryotes
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What is the main mechanism of action of sulfonamides?
Inhibiting nucleotide metabolism in prokaryotes
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Pyrimidine salvaging
- not salvaged to a significant degree | - no high yield diseases or enzymes are associated with their breakdown or salvage
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Which bases are more complex?
Purine
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Why are purines more complex than pyrimidines
- dicyclic - many more steps involved - salvage pathway is more critical
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Salvage pathway for purines
- nitrogenous base is recovered after removing phosphate and sugar moieties - yield hypoanthine or guanine which can be shuttled back into purine nucleotide synthesis
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What does the salvage pathway for purines yield
-hypoxanthine or guanine
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What happens to the hypoxanthine and guanine that is yielded from purine salvaging?
Shuttled back into purine nucleotide synthesis
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Adenosine delaminase deficiency
Causes severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID)
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SCID results from what deficiency?
-adenosine deaminase
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What happens in SCID
- cells of the immune system are particularly affected by this deficiency - condition results in patients being susceptible to infection by almost any microorganism, requiring living in a sterile bubble
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What is the treatment for SCID?
Bone marrow transplant
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What happens to the nitrogenous base in the salvage/degradation pathway?
The base can be shuttled back into purine synthesis or can be degraded to Uric acid
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What enzyme does the excretion pathway of purine synthesis use?
Xanthine oxidase
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Xanthine oxidase
- excretion - intermediate is xanthine - product is uric acid excreted in urine
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Gout is the result of what?
- Hyperuricemia (elevated levels of uric blood - accumulation of uric acid crystals in the joints - leading to inflammation and gouty arthritis
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What can cause Gout?
- underexcretion of uric acid (most common) - which can be caused by: poor kidney function, acid-base balance imbalance, certain drugs - overporduction of uric acid
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Overproduction of uric acid treatment
Allopurinol
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What does allopurinol do?
Treats gout in "overproducers" by inhibiting xanthine oxidase which produces uric acid
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Hyperuricemia as a secondary condition
Can be secondary to many conditions such as high cell turnover in cancer patients being treated with various anti tumor drugs
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Lesch-Nyah's syndrome
- deficiency in the purine salvage pathway - defect in HGPRT - deficit of purines - extreme hyperuricemia
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Symptom of Lesch-Nyhan
- severe mental retardation - self destructive behavior - self mutilation Chewing off lips and fingertips Scratching/gouging eyes Severe gout symptoms
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How can gout affect the eye?
Deposits tophi in - the conjunctiva - cornea - iris - sclera - lens - other eye tissue - the formation of transparent vesicles - bleeding in the subconjunctival space and vascular changes

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