Steve Harvey's Black and White Biochemistry Facts Flashcards
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Chromatin Structure
Negatively charged DNA loops twice around positively charged histones
Histones rich in lysine and arginine
Nucleosome core= H2A, H2B, H3, H4 (two of each)
Histone H1 binds nucleosome and stabilizes nucleosomes
Heterochromatin
Condensed, transcriptionally inactive, sterically inaccessible
Heterochromatin= highly condensed
Euchromatin
less condensed, transcriptionally active, sterically accessible
Eu=true “truly transcribed”
DNA methylation
Template strand cytosine and adenine are methylated in DNA replication, which allows mismatch repair enzymes to distinguish between old and new strands in prokaryotes.
DNA methylation at CpG islands represses transcription
“CpG Methylation Makes DNA Mute”
Histone methylation
Usually reversibly represses DNA transcription. but can activate it in some cases
“methylation=muting”
Histone acetylation
Relaxes DNA coiling, allowing for transcription.
“Acetylation=Active”
Purines
PURe As Gold
Adenine and Guanine
Pyrimidine
CUT the PY
Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil
Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency
Excess ATP and dATP imbalances nucleotide pool via feedback inhibition of ribonucleotide reductase prevents DNA synthesis and thus decrease lymphocyte count.
One of the major causes of autosomal recessive SCID
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
HGPRT
Hyperuricemia - if guanine and hypoxanthine cannot be phosphorylated by HGPRT, they get turned into urea which causes gout (see yellow crystals in their shit).
pissed off, retardation, DysTonia
HGPRT .
(hypoxanthine to IMP and guanine to GMP)
X-linked recessive
Treatment: allopurinol or febuxostat
Patient can develop macrocytic anemia because folate and b12 can compensate to make up for lost purines
DNA replication: Helicase
Unwinds DNA template at replication fork
DNA polymerase III
prokaryotes only
Elongates leading strand by adding DNA to the 3’ end
proofreads with 3’ to 5’ exonuclease
DNA polymerase I
Prokaryotes only
Degrades RNA primer (via RNAse H), replaces it with DNA
Same as polymerase III but excises RNA primer with 5’ to 3’ exonuclease
DNA ligase
Catalyzes the formation of a phosphodiester bond within a strand of double-stranded DNA (joins okazaki fragments)
Telomerase
RNA-dependent DNA polymerase that adds DNA to 3’ ends of chromosomes to avoid loss of genetic material with every duplication
DNA mutations: Transition vs transversion
Transition- purine to purine or pyrimidine to pyrimidine
Transversion- purine to pyrimidine or vise versa
Silent mutation
nucleotide substitution but codes for same amino acid: often base change in 3rd position of codon (tRNA wobble)
Missense
Nucleotide substitution resulting in changed amino acid (called conservation if new amino acid is similar in chemical structure)
example: sickle cell disease
Nonsense
Nucleotide substitution resulting in early stop codon
“Stop the nonsense”
Frameshift
Deletion or insertion of a number of nucleotides not divisible by 3, resulting in misreading of all nucleotides downstream, usually resulting in a truncated, nonfunctional protein
Example: Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Nucleotide excision repair
specific endonucleases release the oligonucleotide containing damaged bases; DNA polymerase and ligase fill and reseal the gap, respectively. Repairs bulky helix-distorting lesions.
example: xeroderma pigmentosum, prevents repair of pyrimidine dimers because of ultraviolet light exposure
Mismatch repair
Newly synthesized strand is recognized, mismatched nucleotides are removed and the gap is filled and resealed
example: defective in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer and lynch syndrome (marshawn lynch is a mismatch or some shit)
Non homologous end joining
Brings together 2 ends of DNA fragments to repair double-stranded breaks, No requirement for homology
Mutated in ataxia telangiectasia
DNA/RNA protein synthesis direction
DNA and RNA are read in the 3’ to 5’ diraction
DNA and RNA are both synthesized 5’ to 3’
Drugs blocking DNA replication often have modified 3’ OH, preventing addition of the next nucleotide (chain termination)