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What type of environment does prokaryotic growth need

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A nutrient rich environment containing amino acids and carbs

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Describe housekeeping genes

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Their DNA has genes always required for function

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What are housekeeping genes required for

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General maintenance

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What do housekeeping genes include

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  • structural proteins
  • ribosomal proteins
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Define regulated genes

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Genes that can be turned on/off on demand
- expressed only when needed

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Are enzymes housekeeping or regulated genes

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Regulated

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Why must cells metabolize energy

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For ATP and other energy sources

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What is the preferred energy source in E coli

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Glucose

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What happens once glucose is used up in bacteria

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Growth is stopped

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What do bacteria metabolize when glucose runs out

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Lactose

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What activates the switch to lactose

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Products of glucose metabolism

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Why aren’t lactose enzymes before glucose runs out

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It would be a waste without lactose

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What happens if lactose is present without glucose

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Bacteria can quickly uptake lactose metabolizing genes to accommodate for new environment

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What enzyme is needed to metabolize lactose

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Beta galactosidase

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What does lactose break down into

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Glucose and galactose

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Can beta galactosidase be made with glucose in cell

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No

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What did Jacob and Monod do

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Grew E coli in lactose free medium, added it and removed to see if protein production changed

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What pattern did Jacob and Monod see

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There was a steady increase in response to more lactose

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What did Jacob and Monod conclude

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Figured out how bacteria controlled the production of an enzyme called beta-galactosidase

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Does gene expression mean transcription?

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No

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Define gene expression

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Functional product of gene is made, modified and activated

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What does transcriptional control allow

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transcription of DNA to mRNA

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What does translational control allow

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Translation of mRNA to protein

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What does post translational control allow

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Modification and activation of produced protein

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What does transcriptional regulation control
Amount of mRNA produced
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What does activation of transcription require
Binding to promoter and increase binding of RNA Polymerase
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How is the gene turned off and on
Controlled binding of protein to promotor
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Rank transcriptional regulation from slowest to fastest and why
Slowest- starting from scratch! - relevant with drastic changes
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What is an example of transcriptional regulation
When cell runs out of glucose and lactose metabolism is needed
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Is transcriptional regulation efficient?
Yes! It does not use resources unless necessary
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How is translation initiated in eukaryotes?
Binding of ribosome to 5' cap and first AUG start codon
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How is translation initiated in prokaryotes?
Ribosome binds and begins translation at Shine Dalgarno sequences
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What does the rate of translation effect
Amount of protein produced
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What does protein production depend on
Stability of mRNA
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What does post translational control allow the polypeptide to do
Fold and be further chemically modified
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How does post translational control effect protein activation
Cause proteins to be active/inactive by driving it into complexes, substrate binding, unmasking enzymatic domains
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Rank post translational control from slowest to fastest
Fastest
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How does post trans control respond to changes
Quick
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Define enhancers
Short region of DNA that can be bound by proteins to increase the likelihood that transcription of a particular gene will occur
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At what level does E coli regulate beta galactosidase
Transcriptional level
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When is there activation in gene expression for beta galactosidase and lactose permease
When there is no glucose present in cell
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What is lactose permease
A transport protein
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Where does lactose permease sit
In the bacterial cell membrane
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What does lactose permease do
Allows transport of lactose into cell
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What is beta galactosidase
Cytoplasmically situated bacterial enzyme
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What does beta galactosidase do
Cleaves imported lactose into glucose and galactose
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Why are lactose permease and beta galactosidase linked
Because of functional relatedness
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What does clustering genes with one operon do
Allow ability to control transcription of whole gene cluster as one unit
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Who discovered the operon model
Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod in 1961
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What does the operon model describe
Functionally related bacterial genes are organized into transcriptional units along bacterial chromosome
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What controls the on and off of a gene
The operon
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What does the operon consist of
The promoter, operator, and coordinated gene cluster whose products function in similar way
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What is an operator
A sequence of nucleotides at beginning of operon that can be regulated to inhibit or allow transcription
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What happens when operator is not bound to inhibitor
RNA polymerase can bind to operator and transcribe genes in protein
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Why can bacteria produce separate polypeptides during translation
Because the polycistronic mRNA is punctuated with stop and start codons
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What is the lac operon
Model for transcriptional regulation in prokaryotes such as E coli
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What is under control in lac operon
Beta galactosidase and lactose permease expression
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What regulatory sequences exist in lac operon
Promotor- binds RNA polymerase Operator (lac O)- binding site for repressor protein expressed by lacI
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What are the two main structural genes that code for lactose metabolism
lacY and lacZ gene
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What does the lacY gene do
Codes for lactose permease which will be embedded in the cell membrane
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What does the lacZ gene do
codes for beta galactosidase which cleaves lactose into glucose and galactose
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What does lacI do
Controls expression of lacZ and lacY gene
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How does lacI control expression
Codes for repressor proteins which binds to operator and inhibits transcription
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What does the repressor protein do to stop transcription
Binds to operator region of operon so RNA polymerase cannot bind
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When is the repressor protein expressed
During low levels of lactose
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Define negative transcriptional regulation
Ability of repressor protein to inhibit transcription
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How is expression of repressor protein when there are high levels of lactose
High expression to inhibit
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Describe the structure of the repressor protein
Tetrameric protein
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How does repressor protein inhibit
Binds to lacO so RNA cannot bind
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How does lactose act as inducer
Binding to repressor protein on lac operon and causing change to repressor- so it cant bind with DNA
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What happens when operator is not bound by repressor
RNA polymerase can bind and produce b galactosidase and lactose permease
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What type of feedback is regulation of lac operon
Positive regulation
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What increases as glucose levels decrease
Intracellular cyclic AMP
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What does intracellular cAMP do
Increase of cAMP contributing to positive regulation of lac operon
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What is a good indicator of nutritional state of E coli cells
Concentration of cAMP
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Define adenylyl cyclase
Catalyzes the production of cAMP from ATP
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How is adenylyl cyclase effected when glucose levels are high
It is inhibited
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How are cAMP levels when glucose is low
High due to increased activity of adenylyl cyclase
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How are cAMP levels when glucose is high
Low due to decreased activity of adenylyl cyclase
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What protein does positive regulation of lac operon include
CRP (cyclic AMP Receptor Protein) or CAP (Catabolite Activator Protein)
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What does CAP do
protein that binds to the promoters of operons that control the processing of alternative sugars, such as the lac operon
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What happens when CAP bound by cAMP
It will bind to different site on bacterial DNA called CRP-cAMP or CAP-cAMP
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How does cAMP respond to elevated signals
cAMP binds to CRP protein as allosteric activator
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What happens when CRP-cAMP complex binds to bacterial DNA
Activate transcription of beta galactosidase and lactose permease in presence of lactose
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What do low levels of glucose do to cAMP
Increase cAMP levels to activate positive regulator CRP-cAMP
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What happens to repressor in negatively regulated transcription
A repressor will bind to operon to prevent polymerase from binding
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Inducer proteins become..?
Inducer of genes
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What happens to activator protein in positive regulation and why?
Binds to activator binding site on DNA - allows for recruitment of RNA polymerase to promotor and initiation of transcription
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What happens if activator is absent or cannot bind?
Transcription cannot occur
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How is lac operon regulated in low glucose
Positively regulated
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How is lac operon regulated in high glucose
Negatively regulated

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