7. Molecular Genetics Flashcards
DNA goes from
5’ to 3’
replication
helicase unwinds dna forming a replication fork
- SSBs keep it open
- Topoisomerase decreases tension
- DNA pol moves from 3’ to 5’ making strand
- makes the lagging strand using primase fragments (DNA ligase connects and then DNA pol I changes to DNA)
DNA pol functions
pol 3 replicates but can also check via exonuclease
- pol I breaks down fragments
telomere replication
telomerase adds elongation to end so it doesn’t degrade
protein synthesis
- AA’s are redundant
- mRNA has 64 possible codons
- tRNA has a clover shape with h bonds (tiny abundance)
- rRNA (rich abundance) is the DNA being transcribed with the mRNA (merger abundance) bound as well as the tRNA
transcription
- RNA pol binds to promoter region (in eukaryote is tata box, prokarya is Pribnow box)
- only one strand is transcribed, which is the temple antisense DNA trand, while the other is the CODing/ sense strand
- AAA coding strand is end
rna has greater error than
dna
mRNA processing
5’ cap, poly a tail, introns spliced out
translation
- GTP as energy
- small ribosome attaches to 5’ end, MET attaches to AUG
- elongation then A site releases MET in E site. this then moves in translocation.
- termination is reaching stop codon UAG, UAA, UGA
- folding using chaperone proteins
post translation
may go to ER and secreted via Golgi
multiple ribosomes can attackh in
prokarya
bacteria start codon
formylmethionine
silent mutation
same codon
nonsense
new codon is stop codon
missense
codon is new amino acid
proofreading mech
- dna pol, mismatch repair for mismatched bases, or excision repair where damaged dna goes away (T dimers)
nucelosome
DNA around 8 bundles of histones
euchromatin
loosely bound dna to be transcribed