Biochem Random Flashcards
histone amino acids
lysine and arginine
linker histone
H1
heterochromatin
highly condensed
increase methylation
decrease acetylation
methylation
cystine and adenine
methylation at CpG islands
represses transcription
histone modification
methylation mute
acetylation active
linkage phosphate in nucleotide
3-5’ phosphodiester bond
methyl in base
thymine
deamination of cytosine
makes uracil
deamination of adenine
makes guanine
methylation of uracil
makes thymine
amino acids for purine synthesis
glycine
aspartate
glutamine
inhibits dihydroorotate dehydrogenase
leflunomide
inhibits ribonucleotide reductase
hydroxyurea
adenosine deaminase deficiency
required for degradation of adenosine and deoxyadenosine
increase dATP toxicity to lymphocytes
treatment Lesch-Nyhan
allopurinol or febuxostat
Wobble exceptions
methionine and tryptophan
only encoded by 1 codon
exception of universal genetic cod
mitochondria
AT rich sequences
found in promoters and origins of replication
-poside inhibits
topo II
-tecan inhibits
topo I
FQN inhibits
topo II and topo IV
degrades RNA primer
replaces with DNA
DNA polymerase I
transition mutation
purine to purine or pyrimidine to pyrimidine
transversion mutation
purine to pyrimidine or pyrimidine to purine
early stop
nonsense
UAG, UAA, UGA
examples of frameshift mutation
Duchenne and Tay Sachs
examples of mutation in splice site
cancers, dementia, epilepsy, beta thalassemia
low glucose
increase AC leading to activation of CAP and increased transcription
high lactose
unbinds repressor leading to increase transcription
defective nucleotide excision repair
xeroderma pigmentosum
steps base excision repair
glycosylase removes base and creates AP site
endonuclease cleaves 5’
lyase cleaves 3’ end
polymerase followed by ligase
defective mismatch repair
Lynch syndrome
occurs in G2
defective nonhomologous end joining
ataxia telangiectasia, BRCA1 mutation, Fanconi anemia
start codon eukaryotes vs prokaryotes
methionine to n-formylmethionine
promoter region
AT rich upstream with TATA and CAAT boxes
mutation leads to decrease in transcription
signs of intron
start with GT
end with AG
most numerous RNA
rRNA
alpha amanitin
inhibits RNAP II
causes hepatotoxicity
initial transcript
heterogeneous nuclear RNA
polyadenlation signal
AAUAAA
quality control mRNA
cytoplasmic procesing bodies (P bodies)
contain exonucleases, decapping enzymes and microRNAs
antibodies to snRNPs
SLE
anti-U1 RNP
mixed connective tissue
microRNA
small, conserved, noncoding RNA molecules
target 3’ UTR
T arm tRNA
ribothymidine, pseudouridine, cytidine
D arm tRNA
dihydrouridine residues
detects tRNA by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
initiation protein synthesis
GTP hydrolysis
tumor suppressors
p53 induces p21
inhibits CDKs
hypophosphorylation of Rb inhibits G1 to S progression
permanent cells
neurons, skeletal and cardiac muscle, RBCs
stable
hepatocytes and lymphocytes
RER
secretory proteins and N-liknked oligosaccharide addition
RER in neurons
Nissle bodies
free ribosomes
cytosolic and organellar proteins
cells rich in RER
mucus goblet cells and plasma cells
smooth ER
steroid synthesis and detox of drugs and poisons
n-oligosaccharides
asparagine
o-oligosaccharides
serine and threonine
defect in n-acetylglucosaminyl-1-phosphotransferase
I cell disease
cells secreted extracellularly rather than delivered to lysosomes
absent signal recognition particle
protein accumulates in cytosol
cop II vs cop I
two forward
one back
peroxisome
very long chain fatty acids, branched fatty acids, amino acids, and ethanol catabolism
hypotonia, seizures, hepatomegaly
Zellweger syndrome
scaly skin, ataxia, cataracts, shortening of 4th toe, epiphyseal dysplasia
Refsum disease
defects proteasome
Parkinson disease
actin, microvilli
microfilaments
vimentin, desmin, cytokeratin, lamins, glial fibrillary acid proteins, neurofilaments
intermediate filaments
cilia, flagella, spindle, centrioles
microtubules
desmin
muscle
GFAP
neuroglia
dynein vs kinesin
dynein retrograde
kinesin anterograde
9 doublet and 2 singlet arrangement
cliaa
of MT
basal body
9 MT triplets with no central MT
female with Kartagener
increase risk of ectopic pregnancy
sodium potassium
3 Na out
2 K in
oubain
inhibits bining to K site
type I collagen
bone, skin, tendon, dentin, fascia, cornea, late wound repair
type II collagen
cartilage, vitreous body, nucleus pulposus
type III
reticulin-skin, blood vessels, uterus, fetal tissue, granulation tissue
seen in Ehlers-Danlos
type IV
basement membrane, basal lamina, lens
hydroxylation collagen
proline and lysine
problems forming triple helix collagen
osteogenesis imperfecta
problems with cleavage of disulfide rich terminal regions procollagen
Ehlers-Danlos
problems with cross-linking collagen
Ehlers-Danlos and Menkes disease
covalent lysine-hydroxylysine cross linking by copper containing lysyl oxidase
genetics osteogenesis imperfecta
COL1A1 and COL1A2
translucent connective tissue over choroidal veins
blue sclera in OI
aneurysms Ehlers Danlos
berry and aortic aneuysms
classical Ehlers-Danlos
mutation in type V collagen
genetics Menkes disease
X linked recessive impaired copper absorption and transport
ATP7A
brittle, kinky hair, growth retardation and hypotonia
composition elastin
rich in nonhydroxylated proline, glycine, and lysine residues
crosslinking elastin
extracellular
wrinkles of aging
decrease collagen and elastin production
genetics Marfan syndrome
FBN1 on ch 15
AD
lens in marfan
upward and temporally displaced
southwestern blot
DNA binding proteins
like transcription factors
using labeled oligonucleotide probes
microarrays
detect single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variations
less specific than Western blot
ELISA
phase karyotyping
metaphase
samples for karyotyping
blood, bone marrow, amniotic fluid, or placental tissue
steps cloning
isolate
expose to RT to produce cDNA
insert cDNA into plasmids with ABX resistance
cre-lox system
manipulate genes at specific developmental points
RNAi
dsRNA complementary to mRNA sequence
pleiotropy
multiple phenotypic effects
dominant negative mutation
heterozygote produces nonfunctional altered protein that also prevents normal product
somatic mosaicism
mitotic errors after fertilization
gonadal mosaicism
only in egg or sperm
suspect if parents do not have disease
mosaicism survivable
McCune Albright
different muations at same locus
beta thalassemia
allelic heterogeneity
mutation at different loci produce similar phenotype
albinism
locus heterogeneity
heteroplasmy
mitochondrial-normal and mutated leading to variable expression
heterodisomy
heterozygous indicates meiosis I error
isodisomy
meiosis II error or postzygotic chromosomal duplication
individual with recessive when only one parent is carrier
uniparental disomy
HW assumptions
no mutation
natural selection not occurring
random mating
no net migration
Prader Willi
maternal imprint
paternal mutated
Angelman
paternal imprint
maternal mutated
genetics hypophosphatemic rickets
X linked dominant
same genetics as fragile X and Alport syndrome
genetics CF
AR on ch7
Phe508 deletion
pathophysiology CF
ATP-gated Cl channel retained in RER leading to increase intracellular Cl and increase Na reabsorption
increase immunoreactive trypsinogen
newborn screening CF