Biochemistry Flashcards
Major cause of AR SCID
Def of adenosine deaminase
Lesch Nyhan Syndrome
Gout, angry, MR, self mutilation, orange sand in diaper
Tx: allopurinol or febuxostat
What is defective in xeroderma pigmentosum?
Nucleotide excision repair - can’t fix pyrimidine dimers from UV light - in G1 phase
= increased risk skin CA
What is defective in Lynch syndrome?
Mismatch repair in G2 phase
What is mutated in ataxia telangiectasia?
Nonhomologous end joining to fix ds breaks
What blocks 30S protein synthesis?
Aminoglycosides
Tetracyclines - block from getting to A site
What drugs prevent protein synthesis at 50S?
Clindamycin Macrolides Streptogranines Chrolamphenicol Linezolid
GFAP
Stains for neuroglia
Good for astrocytoma, glioblastoma
Desmin
Stains muscle
Good for tumors - rhabdomyosarcoma
Drugs that work on microtubules
Mebendazole - anti helminth Griseofulvin - antifungal Colchicine - gout Vincristine/Vinblastine - CA Paclitaxel - CA
Type I collagen
Bone, skin, tendon
Type II collagen
Cartilage
Type III collagen
Reticulin - skin, blood vessels, fetal, granulation
– Ehlers Danlos
Type IV collagen
Basement membrane
- targeted by autoabs in Goodpasture
- Alport syn
Defective in Ehlers Danlos?
Type III Collagen
Defective in Alport syndrome?
Type IV collagen
Mut in ALS?
SOD1
Superoxide dismutase
Brushfield spots
Downs - while fibrotic speckles on iris
Downs associations:
Hirschsprung Duodenal atresia Early Alzheimer's CA - baby AML CA - 3-7 y ALL Quad screen: all down except hi -decreased aFP, estriol - increased B-hcg, inhibin A
Trisomy 18
Edward - Edward Cullen stuck at 18
Horseshoe kidney, rocker bottom feet, overlap fingers
Quad screen - all 4 decreased
Trisomy 13
Patau - 1 and 3 on side - extra finger and cleft lip
holoprosencephaly
Cri du chat
5 little short cats with small heads crying over a broken heart
Deletion short arm of chr 5, hypo plastic larynx
VSD mc
Klinefelters
Inc. FSH, LH Dec. T guys are kinky, too much seX Osteoporisis Increased risk BCA, testicular CA
4 causes of Hydrops Fetalis
Parvo B19
Rh- incomp
a-Thal
Turner syn
Turners
Shorty missing x - Shox - homeobox gene
cystic hygroma - web neck
Tay Sachs
Tay is 15 yrs old, walking through the woods - takes cherries and throws through the window of an old house. witch comes out, reaches into sach and puts a hex on him. Only 2 cars, 2 GM cars.
Def of hexosaminodase A, accumulates GM2 ganglioside
EM: distended lysosomes with whorls (like car wheel)
Retina - cherry red spot
Niemann Pick
Neimann picks his nose and sphings it at a zebra with stripes
Def in sphingomyelinase, sphingomyelin accumulates - brain, retina, Macrophages = big organs
Chr 11 that look like stripes on zebra
Gaucher dz
MC Chr 1 Def of glucocerebrosidase, glucocerebroside accumulates - Macro Gaucher cell - sinusoids filled with RBC Bone - erlenmeyer flask deformity
Erlenmeyer bones
Gaucher dz
Osteopetrosis
Pompe Dz
Glycogen in lysosome - PAS+
a-1-a4-glucosidase
aka acid maltose
Mucopolysaccharidosis
GAGs accumulate –> HS, DS, CS (chondroiton sulfate)
1st in macro -> HSM, fibroblasts accumulate = cloudy cornea
MC: Hurler
Hunter