Biochem Final Flashcards
Cumulative
Wk7D2: The citric acid cycle is one source for providing substrates for the conversion of amino acids.
True/False
True
Substrates: alpha-ketoglutarate and oxaloacetate
Wk7D2: Amino acids can be converted to another amino acid by transamination of an alpha keto acid.
True/False
True
- not a redox reaction
- displacement of amino acid
Wk7D2: Amino acids can be used to produced?
a) carbohydrate
b) lipid
c) other amino acid
d) energy
e) all of the above
d) All of the above
- TCA Cycle/Citric Acid Cycle
- vitamins and minerals are not produced in the body (essential aa)
Wk7D2: All amino acids can be synthesized de novo or from scratch in a human body as need.
True/False
False
- acquired through diet (essential AA)
- synthesized in body (nonessential AA)
Wk7D2: When the amino group is removed, it is in what form and where does it go?
Ammonia is formed and is excreted through the urine
Wk7D2: How are amino acids needed differently in the body?
- precursors for protein synthesis
* can be oxidized to yield energy for ATP synthesis
Wk7D2: Which ones can be synthesized in the body?
Glutamate and glutamine are 2 of the most important metabolic amino acids in the body; they serve as reservoirs of nitrogen and as the carbon skeletons for the TCA cycle intermediate, alpha-ketoglutarate
Wk7D2: How are amino acids classified metabolically?
nonessential and essential
Wk7D2: Name some nonessential amino acids
Alanine Asparagine Aspartate Cysteine Glutamine Glycine Proline Serine Tyrosine
Wk7D2: Name some essential amino acid
Arginine Histidine Isoleucine Leucine Lysine Methionine Phenylalanine Threonine Tryptophan Valine
Wk7D2: What are the 3 categories that amino acids fall in?
Glucogenic
Ketogenic
Glucogenic and Ketogenic
Wk7D2: Which group give rise to a net production of pyruvate or TCA cycle intermediates: alpha-ketoglutarate and oxaloacetate?
Glucogenic
Wk7D2: Which group give rise only to acetyl-CoA or acetoacetyl-CoA?
Ketogenic
Wk7D2: Lysine and leucine are solely falls under what type of amino acid category?
Ketogenic
Wk7D2: Which group give rise to both glucose and fatty acid precursors?
Glutogenic and ketogenic
Wk7D2: Isoleucine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and tyrosine fall under which category of amino acid?
Glutogenic and ketogenic
Wk7D2: In aspartate asparagine metabolism what enzyme is important in interconversion?
Asparagine synthase: catalyze the conversion of aspartate to asparagine
Wk7D2: How can amino acids produce glucose?
Gluconeogenesic pathway converts pyruvate, lactate, glycerol and amino acids (alanine and glutamine) into glucose
Wk7D2: What is transamination used for?
plays a role in synthesis and breakdown of amino acids
Wk7D2: What is deamination?
removal of an amino group from an amino acid to other compound
Wk7D2: What are 3 mechanisms to synthesize non-essential amino acids?
1) Transamination via transaminases/aminotransferases
2) Incorporation of free ammonia into existing AA
(glutamate + NH3 –> glutamine via glutamine synthase)
3) Modification of carbon skeleton of existing AA
Wk8D2: The development of gout is due to precipitation of uric acid crystals in the joint.
True/False
True
Wk8D2: Individual nucleotides must be synthesized individually because there is no interconversion possible.
True/False
False
Wk8D2: In purine biosynthesis of an amino acid is used in the pathway.
True/False
True
Wk8D2: The de novo synthesis of nucleotides and the salvage pathway are the same pathway.
True/False
False
Wk8D2: Since gout is a disease caused by nucleotide metabolism and the accumulation of uric acids in the joint, what tissue would be most likely to exaggerate the symptoms by ingestion?
a) muscle tissue low in cell number but high in extracellular matrix
b) organ meat or tissue high in cell number
c) blood sausage made from RBC
d) celery salary
e) nuts
b) organ meat or tissue high in cell number
Wk8D2: How is nucleic metabolism involved in the disease gout?
uric acid comes from purine metabolism
Wk8D2: Uric acid comes from what part of metabolism?
a) Base
b) Sugar
c) Triphosphate
a) Base
Wk8D2: What would be some reasons why uric acid would reach such high levels?
- Reduction of uric acid = overproduction
* not being excreted properly by the kidneys
Wk8D2: What are common drugs used to treat gout?
Allopurinol
Colchine
Uloric
NSAIDs (if not bad enough to medicate)
Wk8D2: What carbohydrate is used and where does it come into the synthesis pathway?
- Ribose is phosphorylated at the beginning of the pathway
* AA provide nitrogen for bases
Wk8D2: What other building blocks are used in the synthesis?
- AA close the ring of the structure and provide the amino group
- Vitamin: folate and niacin
- ATP
Wk9D1: Arachidonic acid is used in the production of leukotrienes.
True/False
True
arachidonic acids is a long chain (20 C) fatty acid; more than one bond; unsaturated; carboxylic group on an end of the chain
Wk9D1: What are two ways we can get a substrate as an enzyme?
- Produce it ourselves –> fatty acid
* Diet
Wk9D1: What is the richest fatty acid place in our body?
lipid membrane
Wk9D1: The best treatment for a fever would be:
a) Steroids
b) Antibiotics
c) Drinking water
d) Drinking alcohol
e) NSAIDs
e) NSAIDs
* inhibits COX-1 and COX-2
Wk9D1: What is the temperature that is clinically considered as a fever?
100.4F or 38C
Wk9D1: The organ/tissues in the body which are responsible for acting as the thermostat to regulate and maintain your body temperature?
a) Brain
b) Liver
c) Skin
d) Hypothalamus
e) Lungs
f) Muscles
d) Hypothalamus
Wk9D1: Which part of the body does the following:
- removes heat through sweating
- generates heat?
Skin
Wk9D1: Which part of the body does the following:
*generate heat through shivering and biochemical reactions?
Muscles
Wk9D1: Eicosanoids are synthesized from what molecules in the cell?
a) Glucose
b) Fatty acids
c) Nucleic acids
d) Carbohydrates
e) Proteins
b) Fatty acids
Wk9D1: What else is used in the production/synthesis of Eicosanoids besides a fatty acid?
amino acids
Wk9D1: A fever in the human body is mainly due to what?
a) Resetting of the body’s thermostat
b) Generation of heat by the body
c) Cooling of the body
d) Rapid breathing
e) All of the above
a) Resetting of the body’s temperature
Wk9D1: The body is cooler in the morning and throughout the day the body gets warmer.
True/False
True
Wk7D2: How are amino acids needed differently in the body?
- Production of proteins and enzymes
- synthesis and production of ATP
- Alanine plays a part in the glucose-alanine cycle by transferring nitrogen from tissues back to the liver.
- Glycine plays a role in halting neurotransmitters that process motor and sensory information which affects:
- Movement
- Vision
- audition
Wk7D2: How can amino acids produce glucose?
It’s produced using alanine and glucose-alanine cycle.
- alanine is formed from pyruvate (circulates nitrogen from muscle to liver)
- liver collects plasma alanine and reverse transamination and increases urea production
- pyruvate found in alanine is oxidized or converted to glucose thru gluconeogenesis
Wk7D2: What is used in the redox reactions in the conversion of amino acids?
NADH (reduced form) and NAD+ (oxidized form)
FADH and FAD+
Energy is being used.
WK7D2: What is transamination used for?
It is important in the formation of nonessential amino acids thru enzymes known as aminotransferases
WK7D2: What other important biological molecules can be made from amino acids?
fatty acids (lipids)
WK8D2: Where is the major site of nucleotide metabolism?
metabolic requirements are based on dietary intake or they are synthesized from scratch (purines and pyrimidines)
Purines occurs in the liver
WK8D2: Where are purines synthesized?
Liver
WK9D1: Eicosanoids are derived from what?
Arachidonic acids
WK9D1: How are Leukotrienes and lipoxins synthesized and from what source?
Synthesized from arachidonic acids via the linear pathway (enzyme 5-lipoxygenase)
WK9D1: How are Prostaglandins and thromboxanes synthesized and from what source?
Synthesized from arachidonic acid via the cyclic pathway (enzyme PGS-cyclooxygenase)
WK9D1: How is the cyclic pathway initiated?
initiated thru the action of prostaglandins G/H synthase (prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase-PGS)
WK9D1: What two cyclooxygenases are both catalyze the 2-step conversion of arachidonic acid to PGG2 and then to PGH2?
COX-1 and COX-2
WK9D1: Which COX is inducible and expressed in macrophages and monocytes in response to inflammation?
COX-2
WK9D1: Which COX is expressed in gastric mucosa, kidney, platelets, and vascular endothelial cells?
COX-1
WK9D1: During the cyclic pathway the enzyme PGS possess two activities, what are they?
Cyclooxygenase and Peroxidase
WK9D1: How is the linear pathway initiated?
Initiated thru the action of LOX’s (lipoxygenase)
WK9D1: How many parts can LOX (lipoxygenase) be divided into? What are they?
3 forms; 5-LOX, 12-LOX, and 15-LOX
WK9D1: Which LOX produces leukotrienes?
5-LOX
WK9D1: How do the inflammatory mediator elicit response?
Eicosanoids produce a wide range of biological effects on inflammatory responses (predominately those of the joints, skin, and eyes) on the intensity and duration of pain and fever, and on reproductive function (including labor)
WK9D1: What other important roles do inflammatory mediators play a part in?
Inhibiting gastric acid secretion
Regulating blood pressure through vasodilation or vasoconstriction
inhibiting or activating platelet aggregation and thrombosis
WK9D1: What is a fever and what causes it?
Fever occurs when there is an elevated body temperature that is higher than normal daily variations.
It occurs due to an increase in the hypothalamic set point which is usually between 37-39*C
(high body temp caused by the immune system when it attempts to fight an infection)
WK9D1: What are the 2 types of signals that tightly maintains temperature?
Peripheral nerves and temperature of the blood in the region
WK9D1: How tightly is the body temperature maintained?
Tightly maintained through a process that allows the body to maintain its core internal temperature called thermoregulation
WK9D1: What area of the body is responsible for thermoregulation?
Hypothalamus
Wk9D1: How does the body regulate the temp?
Body temp is regulated by the “set point of the hypothalamus”
WK9D1: How does the body lower its temperature? Give an examples
By vasodilation which leads to heat loss and sweating
WK9D1: How does the body raise its temperature?
By vasoconstriction which is first noticed in the hands and feet, causing a reduction in heat loss from the skin
WK9D1: What is an example of how the body raises its temp?
Shivering can induce body temperature to rise due to heat production in the muscles
WK9D1: What is Hyperthermia?
Uncontrolled increase in body temperature that exceeds the body’s ability to lose heat
WK9D1: What is Hypothermia?
Occurs when the body loses heat and can’t produce heat fast enough to compensate for the loss
WK9D1: What is the widely used class of drugs used to treat a fever?
NSAIDs
WK9D1: NSAIDs, indomethacin and phenylbutazone all act upon the cyclooxygenase activity by doing what?
Inihibiting both COX-1 and COX-2
WK9D1: What is arachidonic acid? Where is it found?
Polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid
Found in the liver, brain and glandular organs
WK9D1: What is phospholipase A2 and what role does it play in the production of arachidonic acid?
Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) is the key enzyme to initiate arachidonic cascade and eicosanoid production
WK9D1: A (20:4 cis D5, 8, 11, 14) is converted to what started by COX enzymes?
arachidonic acid is converted to prostaglandins and thromboxanes by COX enzymes
WK9D1: What is the difference between COX-1 and COX-2?
COX-1 and COX-2 are expressed differently
COX-1 : runs all the time
COX-2 : has to be turned on
different gene products but both isoenzyme families
WK9D1: Why do drug companies target COXs with NSAIDs?
NSAIDs could inhibit the COX-1 and COX-2 and other drugs can’t
WK9D1: A (20:4 cis D5, 8, 11, 14) is converted to what started by LOX enzymes?
arachidonic acid is converted to leukotrienes by the LOX enzymes known as lipoxygenase
WK9D1: Are these inflammatory mediators short or long acting? Why?
Short acting and quickly degraded in the tissue (this is why you have to take NSAIDs more often)
If they were long acting, the drugs would not act the same because they would degrade slower.
WK9D1: What are some ways to bring down a fever?
NSAIDs, placing a damp towel on forehead, drinking fluids, lukewarm bath
WK9D1: What is defined a fever by clinicians?
100.4*F
WK9D1: When is a high body temperature not a fever? Be specific
Hyperthermia, which can lead to heat stroke (not regulated, body can no longer fight the increase in temp)
WK9D2: Where does the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways intersect?
Coagulation cascade
WK9D2: Name the 3 types of mechanisms that maintains hemostasis.
- Vasoconstriction (vascular spasm)
- Formation of platelet plug
- Coagulation (blood clot)
WK9D2: Which pathways are involved when a blood clot is formed?
Intrinsic and extrinsic
WK9D2: What are the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways?
Intrinsic: activated by negatively changed surfaces in vitro (fibrins proteins stick together to form a clot)
Extrinsic: fibrin clot formation due to tissue damage (ex: external trauma or a sharp object breaking the barrier of the skin and causing blood to bleed)
WK9D1: Which NSAIDs are preferred for children?
Motrin or Tylenol
WK9D1: What are key regulatory points in the biosynthesis?
Eicosanoids are key mediators and regulators of inflammation and immunity
COX and LOX are inhibited because it’s the rate-limiting step
WK9D1: How do the inflammatory mediators elicit the response?
Response is elicited by phagocytes releasing by cytokines and lipid messengers
WK9D2: In general, which type of enzymatic reactions are involved in the activation of the various humoral clotting factors in the clotting cascade?
A) kinase B) Protease C) Nuclease D) Caspase E) Phosphatase
B) Protease
WK9D2: What is the term that is used when the enzymes are inactive?
Zymogens
Wk9D2: All the humoral protein factors involved in the clotting cascade are secreted in the enzymatically active form.
True/False
False
Wk9D2: Platelets can only be activated by binding to collagen.
True/False
False
WK9D2: What are some other ways platelets can be activated?
Thrombin, ADP and Prostacyclin
WK9D2: The clotting cascade is a series of phosphorylation events to activate the proteins.
True/False
False
Wk9D2: Why do the numbers of the factors not go in order of their activation?
They are names in the order in which they were discovered
Wk9D2: What role do the endothelial cells play in the clotting cascade? Why is this important when it comes to vascular disease?
- increases calcium
- produce anticoagulants
- line the vessels inside and under the basement membrane
- acts as a barrier against activation
WK9D2: How does Coumadin inhibit clotting?
Inhibits vitamin K
long acting ~12-14 hours
Wk9D2: What role in clotting do platelets play? Do they signal? If so how?
- role in aggregation
- signal from outside to inside
- Platelets bind to collagen at the site of the vessel wall injury, form thromboxane A2 and release ADP to activate other platelets flowing by the vicinity of injury
WK9D2: How does Heparin inhibit clotting?
Heparin inhibit thrombosis by inactivation activated Factor X and inhibiting the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin
WK9D2: In the blood clotting cascade, what protein factor is the target point where both the extrinsic or intrinsic activation pathways come together?
A) Xa to X B) X to Xa C) Va to V D) Fibrinogen to Fibrin E) Prothrombin to Thrombin
B) X to Xa
“a” means it’s activated
Wk9D2: Why is having a cascade more important than a single event?
Highly regulated, allows for localization/ very focal, allow for on-demand availability
WK9D2: What is the difference between hemostasis and thrombosis?
Hemostasis normal response of the vessel to injury by forming a clot that serves to limit hemorrhage (has an extra step: vasoconstriction)
Thrombosis is pathological clot formation that results when hemostasis is excessively activated in the absence of bleeding
WK9D2: How is hemostasis initiated?
Hemostasis is initiated by blood vessel damage/cuts
WK9D2: How is thrombosis initiated?
Initiated by damaged to the endothelial lining of the blood vessel
WK9D2: What does hemostasis and thrombosis have in common?
Both lack nucleic acids, converge to form FACTOR Xa, same last 3 steps to stop blood loss