Quiz #3 (ch 12,13) Flashcards
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transition vs transversions
transitions: pyrimidine replaces pyrimidine or purine replaces purine
transversions: purine and pyrimidine are interchanged
trinucleotide repeats
can expand due to template slippage WITHOUT causing frame shift
Huntington disease
autosomal dominant disease that causes progressive neurodegeneration (only expands in males)
CAG (Gln)
HTT gene
normal range: 11-35
threshold for disease: >35
fragile-X syndrome
1/1500 men
most common cause of inherited mental retardation
CGG repeat just upstream of FMR1 (protein involved in regulating translation)
CGG copies:
normal: 6-54
transmitting: 52-230 (full mutation to grandchildren)
affected: 230-2300 copies (inactivates FMR1)
this repeat only expands during meiosis in females
effect of a crossover within an inversion
- meiotic products are generally not viable
- viable meiotic products usually do not contain crossovers within the inverted region
- provides a way to keep a set of genes for an adaptive trait together (genes for multiple queens & aggressive behavior in fire ants are contained within an inversion relative to other ant species)
reciprocal translocations
- ex: Philadelphia chrom
- 95% of individuals with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) have this translocation
- normal ABL proto-oncogene is tightly regulated
- constitutively active BCR-ABL oncogenic fusion protein
Gleevec
- aka imatinib
- designed to inactivate the BCR-ABL fusion gene that drives most chronic myelogenous leukemia (kills cells but does not harm normal cells since normal cells do not have the chrom 9/22 translocation)
second generation drugs
in some patients cancer cells subsequently mutate to become resistant to Gleevec, so second gen drugs target resistant cells that have very similar mutations in the kinase domain of the BCR-ABL fusion protein
mutants are the …… of evolutionary change
engines
Guanine + Cytosine + EMS
O-6-Ethylguanine + thymine
GC –> AT transition
thymine + adenine + EMS
O-4-Ethylthymine guanine
TA –> CG transition
intercalating agents
proflavin, acridine orange, benzopyrene diol epoxide, EtBr
inhibit DNA replication, inhibit transcription, decrease fidelity of replication –> frame shifts
mutagens ……. DNA
chemically modify
UV light mutagens
pyrimidine dimers
50-100/ cell/ sec/ in sunlight
ionizing radiation
X-rays/gamma rays: high-energy high-frequency
make double stand breaks in DNA
causes of spontaneous mutations
- DNA polymerases insert incorrect nucleotides during DNA replication
- oxidative damage via by-products of normal cellular metabolism
- depurinatin and deamination
DNA polymerase mistake/ base analogs
- nts are in equilibrium bw standard (G=C, A=T) pairing and rare tautomeric forms that pair differently
- closed form orients substrates properly for catalysis (cannot completely close with wrong dNTP)
- after base selection and proofreading, mistakes occur every 10^6 or 10^8 incorporation events (every generation)
- more tautomeric shift –> higher mutation rate
oxidative damage definition and most common product
- by-products of normal cellular metabolism or exposure to high-energy radiation create by-products of reactive oxygen species
- most common product: 8-oxo-G from Guanine (can bp with C or A; associated with many human cancers)
how many purines fall in a typical human cell?
10,000 per day
how many cytosines deaminate in a typical human cell?
100-500 per day
hydrolytic damage
attacks glycosydic bond
attacks C to turn to U (U can bp with A durin DNA replication)
DNA is the only molecule that is………
repaired
DNA lesions /day in E.Coli and Eukaryotes
E. Coli: 1K per day
Eukaryotes: 100k per day
what does Dam methylase recognize?
GATC