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Amino acids Flashcards

1
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Amino Acids with Electrically Charged Side Chains

A

Positive:
- Arg
- His
- Lys

Negative
- Asp
- Glu

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2
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Amino Acids with Polar Uncharged Side Chains

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Ser
Thr
Asn
Gln

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3
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Special cases Amino Acids

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Cys
Gly
Pro

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4
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Amino Acids with hydrophobic side chains
(AVLIMFWY)

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Ala
Val
Ile
Leu
Met
Phe
Tyr
Trp

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5
Q

Non-polar amino acids

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G
A
V
C
P
L
I
M
W
F

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6
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+ charge amino acids

A

R
H
K

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7
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Polar amino acids

A

S
T
Y
R
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8
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  • charge amino acids
A

D
E

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9
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building blocks of proteins

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10
Q

organic molecule containing both carboxyl acid and amino functional
groups.

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Amino acids

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11
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Can be group as nonpolar, polar, acidic, basic.

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Amino acids

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12
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capable of being converted to glucose/ sugar

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Glucogenic Amino acid

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13
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capable of being converted to ketone

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Ketogenic Amino acid

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14
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Examples of Ketogenic Amino Acid

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L
K

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15
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a process of changing/ deviating from the native
conformation.

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Denaturation

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16
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What are some denaturing agents:

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Heat
Extreme pH
Mercaptoethanol

17
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constitute 70% of the organic matter of a cell.

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Proteins

18
Q

Are polymers of amino acids linked by peptide bonds.

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Proteins

19
Q

Types of proteins

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  • Based on shape
  • Functions
20
Q

Based on shape protein

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Globular
Fibrous

21
Q

Globule

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Globular

22
Q

Example globular proteins

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Albumin
Hemeglobin

23
Q

Examples of Fibrous proteins

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Keratin
Collagen

24
Q

Large

A

Fibrous proteins

25
Q

Enumerate the Functions of Proteins

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Collagen
Elastin
Myoglobin
Hemoglobin
Insulin and Glucagon
Immunoglobulins

26
Q

structural protein; made up of 2AA.

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Collagen

27
Q

Blood vessels

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Elastin

28
Q

Storage proteins, msucles

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Myoglobin

29
Q

Transport proteins, carries O2 blood

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Hemoglobin

30
Q

Hormones; controlling blood sugar

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Insulin and Glucagon

31
Q

Antibodies

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Immunoglobulins

32
Q

Enumerate how is proteins Isolation or Sequencing?

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  • By polarity: salting out, precipitation
  • By charge
  • By size
33
Q

salting out, precipitation

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By polarity

34
Q

technique for separating the components, or
solutes, of a mixture on the basis of the relative amounts of each solute
distributed between a moving fluid stream, called the mobile phase,
and a contiguous stationary phase.

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Chromatography

35
Q

may be either liquid or a gas

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Mobile phase

36
Q

either solid or a liquid

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Stationary phase

37
Q

Normal
Mobile phase - ?
Stationary phase - ?

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Mobile phase: Non-polar
Stationary phase: Polar

38
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Reverse
Mobile phase - ?
Stationary phase - ?

A

Mobile phase: Polar
Stationary phase: Non-Polar

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