Biochemistry 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 fatty acid synthesis?
AcCoA carboxylase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in beta oxidation?
CAT-1
What is the rate limiting enzyme in cholesterol synthesis?
HMG CoA reductase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in ketogenosis?
HMG CoA synthase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in purine synthesis?
PRPP synthase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in pyrimidine synthesis?
Aspartate transcarbamoylase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in the TCA cycle?
Isocitrate dehydrogenase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in the urea cycle?
CPS-1
What is the rate limiting enzyme in heme synthesis?
Delta-ALA synthase
What are the catabolic pathways that create energy?
ABC
Acetyl CoA 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 and catabolic pathways?
HUG
Heme synthesis
Urea cycle
Gluconeogenesis
Isomerase
Creates an isomer
Glucose fructose
Epimerase
Creates an epimer
Glucose galactose
Mutase
Moves side chain from one carbon to another carbon
Transferase
Moves side chain from one substrate to another
Transaminase
Moves amino group
Kinase
Phosphorylates using ATP
Phosphorylase
Phosphorylates using Pi
Carboxylase
Forms C-C bonds using CO2, ATP, and biotin
Synthase
Stacks substrates, does not use ATP
Synthetase
Stacks substrates, uses ATP
Phosphatase
Breaks phosphate bond
Hydrolase
Breaks a bond with water
Lyase
Cuts C-C bond with ATP
Dehydrogenase
Removes H with a cofactor (NADH, FADH2)
Thio-
Breaks sulfur bonds
Diffusion
From high to low concentration
Active transport
Goes against concentration gradient
Zero-order kinetics
Metabolism independent of concentration
First-order kinetics
Constant drug percentage metabolism over time, depends on concentration
Efficacy
Max effect regardless of dose
Lower with non-competitive antagonist
What affects efficacy?
Vmax
Potency
Amount of drug needed to produce effect
Lower with competitive antagonist
What affects potency?
Km
Km
Concentration of drug that binds 50% of receptors
EC50
Concentration of drug that produces 50% of maximal response
Competitive inhibition
Fights for active site
No change in Vmax
Decreases potency
Non-competitive inhibition
Binds regulatory site
No change in Km
Decreases Vmax
Decreases efficacy
Endothermic reaction
Consumes heat
Feels cold
Exothermic reaction
Gives off heat
Feels warm
Peak level
4 hours after dose
Too high —> decreases dose
Trough level
2 hours before dose
Too high —> give less often
(Unless q6 hour drug, then 1 hour before dose)
t1/2
Half-life
Time it takes for the body to use half of the drug ingested
von Gierke
G-6Pase deficiency
Hypoglycemia
Hepatosplenomegaly
Pompe’s
Cardiac alpha-1,4-glucosidase deficiency
DIE early
Cori’s
Debranching enzyme deficiency
SHORT branches of glycogen
Anderson’s
Branching enzyme deficiency
LONG chains of glycogen
McArdle’s
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency
Muscle cramps with exercise
Essential fructosuria
Fructokinase deficiency
Excrete fructose
Still have hexokinase so benign (incidental finding usually)
Fructosemia
“Fructose intolerance”
Aldolase B deficiency
Liver damage
Galactokinase deficiency causes?
Cataracts
Galactosemia causes?
Cataracts
Mental retardation
Liver damage
What does the citrate shuttle do?
Fatty acid transport out of the mitochondria
What does the carnitine shuttle do?
Fatty acid transport into the mitochondria
What lysosomal diseases have a cherry-red macula? (2)
Tay-Sachs
Neimann-Pick
What lysosomal diseases have a gargoyle face? (2)
Gaucher’s
Hurler’s
Tay-Sachs
Hexosaminidase A deficiency
Blindness
Incoordination
Dementia
Sandhoff’s
Hexosaminidase A/B deficiency