biochem/ genetic Flashcards
What is the most common intracellular buffer?
Protein
What is the most common extracellular buffer?
Bicarbonate
What is a Zwitterion?
A molecule with one negative and
one positive end
What is the Isoelectric Point?
The pH at which there is no net charge
What is the rate limiting
enzyme in Glycolysis?
PFK-1
What is the rate limiting
enzyme in Gluconeogenesis?
Pyruvate carboxylase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in the HMP shunt?
G-6PD
What is the rate limiting enzyme in Glycogenesis?
Glycogen synthase
What is the rate-limiting enzyme in Glycogenolysis?
Glycogen phosphorylase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in FA synthesis?
AcCoA carboxylase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in β- oxidation?
Adrenaluekodystrophy
CAT-1
What is the rate limiting enzyme in Cholesterol synthesis?
(Redox reaction)
HMG CoA reductase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in Ketogenesis?
HMG CoA synthase
HMG CoA reductase
rate limiting enzyme in Cholesterol synthesis?
What is the rate limiting enzyme in Purine synthesis?
PRPP synthase
Asp transcarbamoylase pathway?
rate limiting enzyme in Pyrimidine synthesis?
rate limiting enzyme in TCA cycle?
Isocitrate dehydrogenase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in Urea cycle?
CPS-I
Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I
90% of Autosomal recessive disorder are?
Enzyme deficiency
AD diseases are mostly: enzyme or structural
Structural protein
What is the rate limiting enzyme in Heme synthesis? -ALA synthase
delta-ALA synthase
the catabolic pathways that create energy
“ABC”
AcetylCoA production
beta-oxidation
Citric acid cycle
What are the anabolic pathways that store energy?
“EFGH” :
ER,
Fatty acid synthesis,
Glycolysis,
HMP shunt
What are the anabolic + catabolic pathways
“HUG”
Heme synthesis
Urea cycle
Gluconeogenesis
What does a Kinase do?
Phosphorylates using ATP
What does a Phosphorylase do?
Phosphorylates using Pi
What does a Carboxylase do?
Forms C-C bonds (w/ ATP and biotin) using CO
What does a Synthase do?
Consumes 2 substrates equally
What does a Synthetase do?
Consumes 2 substrates, uses ATP
What is Zero-order kinetics?
Metabolism independent of concentration
constant amount
What is 1st-order kinetics
Constant drug percentage metabolism over time, depends on drug
Km =
0.5 Vmax
=1/affinity
=1/potency
What affects Potency?
Km
What effects Efficacy?
Vmax
What is Efficacy?
Max effect regardless of dose (lower w/ non-competitive antagonist)
What is EC50
Concentration of drug that produces 50% of maximal response
What is Competitive Inhibition?
Fights for active site, no change in Vmax, potency decreases
What is Non-competitive Inhibition?
Binds a regulatory site, no change in Km, efficacy decreases, decreases Vmax
What is an Endothermic Reaction?
Consumes heat
What is an Exothermic Reaction?
Gives off heat
What is the Peak level?
4 hrs after dose (too high => decrease dose)
What is the Trough level?
2 hrs before dose (too high => give less often)
What is t1/2?
Half-life, the time it takes for the body to use half of the drug ingested
What is von Gierke?
Glucose-6-phosphatase deficiency => hypoglycemia, hepatosplenomegaly
can’t get glucose out the cell, hi lipid, muscle breakdown
What is Pompe’s?
a-1,4-glucosidase deficiency => DIE early
lysosomal
cardio| debranching enzyme
What is Cori’s?
Debranching enzyme deficiency => short branches of glycogen
What is Anderson’s?
Branching enzyme deficiency => long chains of glycogen
What is McArdle’s
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency => muscle cramps w/ exercis
What is Essential Fructosuria?
Fructokinase deficiency => excrete fructose (still have hexokinase
What is Fructosemia?
“Fructose intolerance”
(Aldolase B deficiency ) => liver damage
severe
What does a Galactokinase deficiency cause?
Cataracts
What does Galactosemia cause?
Cataracts, mental retardation, liver damage
Galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase
What does the Citrate shuttle do?
FA transport out of the mitochondria
What does the Carnitine shuttle do
FA transport into the mitochondria
What lysosomal diseases have a cherry- red macula
Tay-Sachs, Neimann-Pick
What lysosomal diseases have a Gargoyle-face?
Gaucher’s, Hurler’s
Hexosaminidase A deficiency => blindness, incoordination, dementia
What is Tay-Sachs?
Hexosaminidase A/B deficiency
sandhoff’s
Glucocerebrosidase deficiency => wrinkled tissue MP, bone pain
sphingolipid found in cell membranes
Gaucher
β-glucocerebrosidase → accumulation of glucocerebroside
description
Gaucher cell:
macrphages
lipid-rich macrophages with an enlarged cytoplasm with inclusions
Neimann-Pick?
enzyme
Sphingomyelinase deficiency => zebra bodies
myelinoid memb -> parallel palisading lamellae in lysosomal cytoplasm
neimann-pick
lipid-laden macrophages
light microscope
foam cells
6 actions of TCA
- SNRI: Block reuptake of catecholamines, increasing the level: hypertension
- strongly anticholinergic: no sweating, hot, dry skin, and hyperthermia
- Block alpha-1 receptor drop BP
- Blocks Na in ventricle
- Blocks AV conduction: slow
- Antihistaminic
a-galactosidase deficiency => corneal clouding, attacks baby’s kidneys, X- linked
What is Fabry’s?
X-linked
X-linked Recessive Enzyme
G6pd
F
H
CGD
HGRPT
CAT-1
AD
OTC
PRPP synthetase
Tyrosine Kinase
What is Krabbe’s?
b-galactosidase deficiency => globoid bodies
What is Metachromatic Leukodystrophy?
Arylsulfatase deficiency => childhood MS
Mucopolysaccharidoses
What is Hunter’s?
enzyme
Iduronidase deficiency, milder form
What is Lesch-Nyhan?
(HGPRT deficiency) => gout, neuropathy, self-mutilation
Mucopolysaccharidoses
What is Hurler’s?
enzyme:
Iduronidase deficiency, worse form
What do white diaper crystals suggest?
Excess orotic acid
What does biotin donate CO2 groups for?
Carboxylation
What does THF donate methyl groups for?
Nucleotides
What does SAM donate methyl groups for?
All other reactions
What is the difference b/w Heterochromatin and Euchromatin?
Heterochromatin = tightly coiled Euchromatin = loose (10nm fibers)
What are the Purines?
A, G
What are the Pyrimidines?
CUT
What is a silent mutation?
Changes leave the same amino acid:
wabble positon
What is a point mutation?
Changes 1 base
What is a transition?
Changes 1 purine to another purine or pyrimidine to pyrimidine
What is a transversion?
Changes 1 purine to a pyrimidine or vice versa
What is a frameshift mutation
Insert or delete 1-2 bases
What is a missense mutation?
Mistaken amino acid substitution
What is a nonsense mutation?
Early stop codon
What does a Southern blot detect?
DNA
What does a Northern blot detect?
RNA
What does a Western blot detect?
Protein
What are the essential amino acids
“PVT TIM HALL”
What are the essential fatty acids?
Linolenic
What are the acidic amino acids?
neg charge
Asp, Glu
What are the basic amino acids?
pos charge
His, Arg, Lys
What are the O-bond amino acids?
Ser, Thr, Tyr
What are the N-bond amino acids?
Asparagine, Glutamine
What are the branched amino acids?
Leu, Ile, Val
What are the aromatic amino acids?
Phe, Tyr, Trp
What is the smallest amino acid?
Gly
What are the ketogenic amino acids
Lys, Leu
What are the glucogenic + ketogenic amino acids?
“PITT” Phe, Iso, Thr, Trp
What are the glucogenic amino acids?
All the rest
What amino acids does Trypsin cut?
Trip to LA
Lys, Arg
What amino acids has sulfur
Cys, Met
What amino acids does Acid Hydrolysis denature?
Asn, Gln
What amino acids does Chymotrypsin cut?
Phe, Tyr, Trp
What amino acid turns yellow on Nurhydrin reaction?
Pro
What does Carboxypeptidase cut?
Left of any amino acid on the carboxy terminal
What does Aminopeptidase cut?
Right of N terminus
What does CNBr cut?
Right of Met
What does Mercaptoethanol cut?
Right of Cys, Met
What does Elastase cut?
Right of Gly, Ala, Ser
What does Trypsin cut?
Arg, Lys
What does Chymotrypsin cut?
Phe, Tyr, Trp
What 1 – AntiTrypsin do?
Inhibits trypsin from getting loose
What is PKU?
No Phe (via Phe Hydroxylase): Nutrasweet sensitivity, mental retardation, pale, blond hair, blue eyes, musty odor
What is Albinism?
No Tyr –>
What is Maple Syrup Urine disease?
Defective metabolism of branched aa (Leu, Iso, Val) =>aa leak out
What is Homocystinuria?
No Homocystine Cys: “COLA” stones Cystine, Ornithine, Lysine, Arginine