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Amino Acids Flashcards

1
Q

At physiologic pH

Amino acids can exist in a state where they both have positive and negatively charged groups

A

zwitterion state

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2
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AA can act as acid or base

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Amphoteric

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3
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Classification of amino acids based on properties of R group:

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Nonpolar (Hydrophobic)
Polar but uncharged
Charged (negatively charged - acidic, positively charged - basic)

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4
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What are the basic amino acids?

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Histidine
Arginine
Lysine

HAL

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5
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Precursor of vasoactive histamine

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Histidine

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6
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Precursor of nitric oxide

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Arginine

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7
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Amino acid involved in collagen synthesis

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Lysine

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8
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What are the acidic amino acids?

negatively charged

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Aspartate (articifial sweetener)

Glutamate (excitatory neurotransmitter, most abundant)

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9
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Taste bud sensitive to glutamate

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Umami taste buds

Savory taste from monosodium glutamate

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10
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Too much glutamate causes

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neuronal cell death

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11
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What are the branched chain amino acids?

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Leucine
Isoleucine
Valine

LIV

I BRANCHED OUT TWO OTHERS TO THEY MAY LIV

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12
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Which of the branched chain amino acids is substituted at beta 6?

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Valine to glutamic acid
Sicke Cell Anemia
Missense mutation

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13
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Disease from branched chain amino acid

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Maple Syrup urine Disease

Caramel like odor

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14
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Boiled cabbage urine

Rancid butter smelling urine

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Tyrosinemia

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15
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Enzyme deficient in MSUD

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Alpha Keto Acid Dehydrogenase/Carboxylase

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16
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What are the essential amino acids?

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PVT TIM HALL always ARGues (arginine) but never TYRs (tyrosine)

Phenylalanine
Valine
Threonine * tyrosine
Tryptophan *
Isoleucine
Methionine
Histidine
Arginine * alanine 
Leucine 
Lysine
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17
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Which of the essential amino acids are ketogenic?

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Leucine

Lysine

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18
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What ate the non polar amino acids?

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Glycine
Alanine
Proline

GAP

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19
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Simplest amino acid

A

Glycine

R group is H

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20
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Smallest amino acid

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Glycine

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21
Q

Sweaty feet, acrid

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Glutaric acidemia type III

Isovaleric acidemia

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22
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Amino acid not optically active
No stereoisomers
No chiral carbone

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Glycine

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23
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Swimming pool urine

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Hawksinuria

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24
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Boiled cabbage

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Hypermethioninemia

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25
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Only amino acid that can serve as the internal amino acid of a collagen helix

A

Glycine

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26
Q

Tomcat urine

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Multiple carboxylase deficiency

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27
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Hops-like urine

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Oasthouse urine disease

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28
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Mousy or musty urine

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Phenylketonuria

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29
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Rotting fish urine

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Trimethylaminuria

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30
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Amino acid involved in heme synthesis

Starting subtance is condensed with succinyl CoA

A

Glycine

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31
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Glycine + Succinyl CoA is formed to Aminolevulenic acid (ALA) in heme synthesis by

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ALA synthase

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32
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Which amino acid has a pyrrolidine ring?

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Proline

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33
Q

Alpha helix breakers or disruptors

Disrupt the regularity of alpha helix configuration

Destabilizer of alpha helix

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Proline

Glycine

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34
Q

Amino acid that causes collagen kinks

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Proline

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35
Q

Amino acid involved in methyl group transfer as SAM

S- Adenosyl methionine

A

Methionine

36
Q

Which amino acid absorbs ultra violet light? due to aromatic rings

A

Tryptophan - most
Tyrosine
Phenylalanine

37
Q

UV light is absorbed by tryptophan, tyrosine, phenylalanine at a wavelength of

A

280 nanometers

38
Q

Precursor of epinephrine
norepinephrine
dopamine
melanin

A

Tyrosine

39
Q

Precursor of serotonin

A

Tryptophan

40
Q

Amino acid with largest side chain

A

Tryptophan

41
Q

Dermatitis
Diarrhea
Dementia
Death

Vitamin?

A

Pellagra
Tryptophan/Niacin deficiency Vit B3

Corn eaters disease

42
Q

How many milligrams of niacin is equivalent to tryptophan

A

1:60

43
Q

Acrodermatitis enteropathica

A

Zinc congenital deficiency

44
Q

GI cells that secrete serotonin

A

Enterochromaffin-like cells

45
Q

Tumor from enterochromafin-like cells

A

Carcinoid tumor

46
Q

Serotonin is also called

A

5 hydroxytryptamine

47
Q

Metabolite of carcinoid tumors

A

5HIAA

hydroxy indole acetic acid

48
Q

Carcinoid tumor treatment

A

Chemotherapy:
Capecitabine Xeloda
5-FU
Doxorubicin

49
Q

Slows down carcinoid tumors

A

Ocreotide (Sandostatin) acromegaly, bleeding esophageal

Lanreotide (Samatuline)

50
Q

Precursor of melatonin

Vitiligo
Albinism

A

Tryptophan

51
Q

Oculocutaneous albinism

Recurrent infections

A

Chediak Higashi Syndrome

52
Q

Precursor of thyroid hormone

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Tyrosine

53
Q

Precursor of tyrosine

A

Phenylalanine

54
Q

Precursor of GABA

A

Glutamate

55
Q

Toxin responsible for blocking GABA and Glycine

A

Tetanospasmin

56
Q

Toxin inhibits the SNARE proteins preventing release of Ach

A

Botulinum

57
Q

Precursor of glutathione

A

Glutamate

58
Q

Tripeptide amino acid making up glutathione

A

Cysteine
Glutamic acid
Glycine

59
Q

Biochemical reaction in the conversion of histamine from histidine

A

Histidine —-> Histamine
By HDC Histamine decarboxylase

Decarboxylation of histidine

60
Q

Plays a role in oxygen binding to hemoglobin and myoglobin

A

Histidine

61
Q

What test is used to diagnose folic acid deficiency

A

Histidine

FIGLU Formiminoglutamic acid (metabolite) to conversion of histidine to glutamic acid

62
Q

Test for B12

A

Schilling’s test

63
Q

Iodine used to diagnose cervical CA

A

Schiller’s test

64
Q

Condition caused by low levels of vitamin B12 cobalamin with megaloblastic anemia

Congenital cobalamin malabsorp

A

Imerslund-Grasbeck Syndrome

65
Q

Non standars amino acids because they have undergone post translational protein modification

Chemically modified

A

Ornithine
Selenocysteine
4-hydroxyproline
Carboxyglutamate

66
Q

21st amino acid

A

selenocysteine

during protein analysis a new amino acid was discovered which has a pk3 value, 3 units lower than that of cysteine. This so-called 21st amino acid is selenocysteine.

67
Q

Both glucogenic and ketogenic

A

Phenylalanine
Isoleucine
Tyrosine
Tryptophan

68
Q

deficiency of phenylalanine hydroxylase or dinydropterine reductase

A

Phenylketonuria PKU

69
Q

Branched chain 2 - keto - acid decarboxylase

Isoleucine
Leucine
Valine

A

Maple Syrup Urine Disease

70
Q

Neutal amino aciduria
Defect in the transport of neutral amino acids
Malabsorption
Pellagra-like symptoms (tyrotophan deficiency)
Dermatitis

A

Hartnup’s disease

Nup nup trip nupan

71
Q 
Delusions
Mood swings
Hallucinations
Tremors
Speech difficulties
A

Hartnup’s disease

72
Q

Cystathionine beta synthase deficiency

Dislocation of lens (ectopia lentis)
Mental retardation
Osteoporosis short stature
Atherosclerosis and thrombo-embolism

A

Homocystinuria

73
Q

Cystathione beta synthase (CBS) is dependent on

A

B6 pyridoxine

74
Q

Deficiency of tyrosinase resulting in defective production of melanin pigment

A

Albinism

75
Q

Found in collagen

Deficiency of Vitamin C required for these two hydroxylases results in scurvy, in which bleeding gums, swelling joints and impaired wound healing result from the impaired stability of collagen

A

Hydroxyproline

Hydroxylysine

76
Q

21st amino acid

Requires cysteine, selenate, ATP
a specific tRNA and several enzymes

A

Selenocysteine

77
Q 
Gives rise to
Nitric Oxide
Creatine
Skeletons of the polyamines
Putrsecine
Spermine
Spermidine
A

Arginine

78
Q

Gives rise to
CoA
Part of the bile acid taurocholic acid

A

Cysteine

79
Q

Gives rise to

Biosynthesis of heme
Purines
Creatine
N-methylglycine (sarcosine)

A

Glycine

80
Q

Gives rise to histamine

A

Histidine

81
Q

Gives rise to

norepinephrine and epinephrine
following iodination,
the thyroid hormones triiodothyronine and thyroxine
Tyramine

A

Tyrosine

82
Q

Gives rise to

SAM
S-Adenosylmethionine

A

Methionine

Cysteine

83
Q

Principal source of methyl groups in metabolism

Contributes its C skeleton to the synthesis of polyamines spermine and spermidine

A

SAM

S-Adenosylmethionine

84
Q

Gives rise to

Serotonin
Melatonin

A

Tryptophan

85
Q

Amino acids participating in the biosynthesis of creatine

A

Glycine
Arginine
S-adenosylmethionine

86
Q

Gives rise to

GABA

A

Glutamate

87
Q

Provides the carbons 2 and 8 of purines and the methyl group of thymine

A

Serine

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