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1.1 Amino acids and peptides Flashcards

1
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What is the simple definition of Gibbs free energy?

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It is the energy of the reaction available to do work

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What is the equation relating the change in gibbs free energy to heat and entropy?

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How are spontaneous reactions defined in terms of delta G?

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Spontaneous reactions have a negative delta G

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What is the difference between exergonic and endergonic?

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What is the difference between exothermic and endothermic?

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whats up

What does the sign of delta S indicate in terms of the change in entropy?

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􏰀Delta S is negative: less disorder

Delta 􏰀S is positive: more disorder

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What is the equation linking delta G and delta G*?

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How does the position of equilibrium relate to the change in Gibbs free energy?

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The further away from equilibrium you start, the more work is done before you get there.

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What are some ways through which a negative delta G can be achieved?

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  1. Negative delta H (exothermic)
  2. Positive delta S (increase in entropy)
  3. Any combination that leaves delta G negative
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10
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What are the standard conditions in chemistry?

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  1. 298 K
  2. Gases at a partial pressure of 101.3 kPa (1 atm)
  3. Reactants and products at 1 M concentrations
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What are the standard conditions in biochemistry?

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Same as those of chemistry but the reaction occurs in a well buffered aqueous solution at pH 7 with [H+] ion concentration 10-7 and Mg2+ = 1mM

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12
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If you look at the free energy equation and set all initial concentrations to 1, what happens?

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Shows delta G is equal to delta Go when everything is at standard conditions

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How does the free energy equation change when all concentrations are at equilibrium?

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At equilibrium delta G=0 this means the reaction can do no more work.

This shows that delta G0 is a constant

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What is used to predict where a reaction will be spontaneous?

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The measure of whether a reaction will proceed spontaneously is delta G not delta Go.

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How can the initial conditions of a reaction be altered in order to get a spontaneous reaction?

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16
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What are three ways of making unfavourable reactions go?

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  • Remove one or more of the products at a rate much faster than it is produced so that the reaction is now kinetically driven
  • Replenish one or more of the reactants at a much faster rate than it is removed
  • Couple the unfavourable reaction with a highly favourable reaction (in the active site of an enzyme)
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17
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Label the blanks on this ATP molecules

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18
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What is the difference between a nucleotide and nucleoside?

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Nucleotide = base + sugar + phosphate

Nucleoside = base + sugar

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What causes the release of energy via ATP?

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Energy is released upon the hydrolysis of phosphoanhydride bonds

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20
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Show the equation for the release of energy via ATP including delta G

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21
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How is bond energy related to bond breakage/forming?

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Energy is required to break any bond

Energy is released when any bond forms

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Why is energy required to break any bond?

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The bonded state is a more stable state that’s why it required energy to break

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Why is the ATP reaction highly exergonic?

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  • ATP has a higher negative charge density than ADP (ATP less stable)
  • Pi is very stable: multiple resonance states exist
  • ATP phosphoanhydride bonds are relatively weak
  • ADP phosphoanhydride bonds and Pi bonds are relatively strong
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24
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Why is tri phosphtate less stable than di phosphate?

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Due to charge density, are there is a great accumualtion of negative charges and more strain and repulsion

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25
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What are some of the roles of proteins in the body?

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  • Catalysis
  • Transport
  • Structure
  • Motion
  • Signaling
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26
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What are some of the properties that make amino acids well suited to carry out a variety of biological functions?

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  • Capacity to polymerise
  • Useful acid base properties
  • Varied physical properties
  • Varied chemical functionality
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27
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What is the basic structure of an amino acid?

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The 􏰿 carbon always has four substituents and is tetrahedral.

All (except proline) have:

– an acidic carboxyl group connected to the 􏰿carbon

– a basic amino group connected to the 􏰿carbon
– a alpha hydrogen connected to the􏰿 carbon

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28
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Which protein isomer is found in naturally occuring amino acids?

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L amino acids

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29
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Where do the D and L names for amino acids originate from?

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Based on the rotation of plane of polarised light viewed towards the light source or based on what you could chemically synthesise them from

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How can you determine the chirality of the alpha carbon?

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31
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What amino acid is this?

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Alanine

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32
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Alanine

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What amino acid is this?

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33
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Cysteine

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Aspartate

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Glutamate

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36
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Phenylalanine

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37
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Glycine

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Histidine

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39
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isoleucine

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40
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Lysine

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Leucine

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42
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Methionine

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43
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Asparagine

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50
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Tryptophan

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53
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Cysteine

54
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Aspartate

55
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Glutamate

56
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Phenylalanine

57
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Glycine

58
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Histidine

59
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

isoleucine

60
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Lysine

61
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Leucine

62
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Methionine

63
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Asparagine

64
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Proline

65
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Glutamine

66
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Arginine

67
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Serine

68
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Threonine

69
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Valine

70
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Tryptophan

71
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Reversed prompt draw the amino acid

Tyrosine

72
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What is the three letter code for aspartate?

73
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What is the three letter code for glutamate?

74
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What is the letter codes for phenylalanine?

75
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What is the three letter code for isoleucine?

76
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What is the three letter code for Lysine?

77
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What is the three letter code for asparagine?

78
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What is the three letter code for glutamine?

79
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What is the three letter code for Arginine?

80
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What is the three letter code for tryptophan?

81
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What is the three letter code for tyrosine?

82
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Which amino acids belong to the non polar aliphatic R groups?

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Glycine, alanine, proline, valine, Leucine, Isoleucine, methionine

83
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Which amino acids belong to the polar, uncharged R group category?

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Serine, Threonine, Cysteine, Asparagine, Glutamine

84
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Which amino acids belong to the aromatic R groups?

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Phenylalaline

Tyrosine

Tryptophan

85
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Which amino acids belong to the positively charged R groups? (basic)

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Lysine

Arginine

Histidine

86
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Which amino acids belong to the negatively charged R groups?

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Aspartate

Glutamate

87
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When is pKa equal to pH?

88
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For the acidic side chains of aspartic acids and glutamic acid, in what state do these R groups exist at physiological pH?

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Their pKa is 4.4 so at neutral pH they are completely ionsided and negatively charged

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In what state do the basic side chains of Lysine and Arg have their R groups at physiological pH?

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Lys has a pKa of 10 so the protonated, positively charged form dominates

Arg has a pKa of 12 so similarly completely ionised.

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What are the special properties of basic side chain Histidine?

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  • HIghly used in enzyme active sites
  • The imidazole ring is a H bond done or acceptor (electrophile or nucleophile) and chemically ambidextrous
  • Effective nucleophile in its deprotonated form
91
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What are some properties of the amide side chains asparagine and glutamine?

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  • Not very chemically reactive
  • Polar
  • H bond donor and acceptor
  • THe can remove amide group to become carboxylic acids
92
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What state does Tyrosine’s aromatic side chain exist at physiological pH?

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  • The phenol form dominates above pH 10, but below it phenolate is negatively charged
93
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Why are the aromatic side chains responsible for UV absorbance and fluorescence properties?

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  • The extent and geomtery of conjugated double bond systems cause spectral differences
94
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What properties does proline hold due to its unique geometry?

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  • It has no NH group so its an imino acid
  • Can’t act as a backbone H bond donor
  • Limites rotation between N-Cæ angle -60o
95
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Compare the two sulfur containing side chains, cysteine and methionine

96
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What are some examples of disulfide bonds being seen in proteins?

98
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What are the rotation properties of the peptide bonds?

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  • The peptide bond has partial double bond character due to resonance
  • Rotation around CO-NH bond is not free, groups are co-planer
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What can be said about the size of the peptide bond?

100
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Which peptide bond isomer is favoured energetically?

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  • The trans form is intrinically favoured energetically
  • Due to severse steric hindrance (van der Waals) repulsion of the side chain in cis
101
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What sort of peptied bond isomerisation is found in proline?

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Similar steric hindrance in trans and cis but trans is still favoured for steric reasons

102
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Label the terminology of the peptide bond

103
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What happens when the peptide linkage is cis in nature? For bond angle

104
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Label which one is the phi and si angle

105
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Fill in the blanks about the phi angle

106
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Fill in the blanks about the psi angle

107
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Why are phi and psi so important?

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Because assuming all peptide bonds are trans then all the conformation freedom in the backbone of the polypeptide is due to these two rotations, everything else is fixed

108
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Fill in the blanks about side chain dihedral angles

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