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What is the difference between DNA and RNA?

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DNA has no -OH group on 2’ atom

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What is a nucleotide and nucleoside difference?

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Nucleoside - sugar and base

Nucleotide - sugar, base and connected to phosphate

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What is an anti and syn nucleoside?

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What is the α and β anomer of a nucleoside?

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What is the config of the sugar ring?

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Sugar ring not flat

CH2OH and nucleobase above sugar ring

2’ and 3’ OH groups below sugar ring

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What are the base structures?

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What are the watson-crick base pairs?

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What is 5’ to 3’ and vice versa?

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5’-GCAT-3’ = GCAT

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How does antisense oligonucleotides used for therapy?

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Antisense oligo DNA bonds to mRNA from the virus - forms duplex

Duplex bonds to RNase-H which hydrolyses mRNA to prevent translation

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What is solid-phase synthesis of oligonucleotides?

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Solid support on beads: controlled pore glass or polystyrene

Molecules bound to this support or resin during synthesis

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What are the benefits of solid-phase over solution chemistry?

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Large XS of reagents can be added to drive reactions quickly to completion

Impurities and XS reagents washed away, so less purification steps

Can be automated

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What is the direction of the phosphoramidite method?

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3’ to 5’ direction

Takes advantage of the more reaction 5’-OH group, as not hindered

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What are the steps of the phosphoramidite method?

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Step 1: activation and coupling - to 5’-OH

Step 2: capping - stops unreacted 5’ from reacting

Step 3: oxidation - P(III) to P(V)

Step 4: Detritylation - for next cycle

After finished, oligonucleotide cleaved from support, deprotected, & purified

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What is the 1st step in the phosphoramidite method?

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Detritylation with TFA/TCA (strong acid)

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What is useful in the detritylation step of the phosphoramidite method?

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The cation has a delocalised structure and is coloured
Step can be monitored by UV/Vis

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Why is tritylation required?

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Prevents 5’-OH polymerizing as the resin is functionalization

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What is the 2nd step in the phosphoramidite method?

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Activation and coupling
Mix of nucleoside phosphoramidites with tetrazole (weak acid) which reacts with a nucleoside on the resin

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What is the 3rd step in the phosphoramidite method?

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Capping to prevent them reacting in next coupling step
Mix of acetic acid, N-methylimidazole and pyridine
Reacts with any acetitc acid formed to prevent acid-catalysed detritylation

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What is the 4th step in the phosphoramidite method?

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Oxn of P(III) to P(V) using iodine, water and pyridine
As unstable to acid, so must protect

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How do you cleave oligonucleotide from support in phosphoramidite method?

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Succinyl linker used as can be cleaved by conc aq ammonia

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How are synthetic oligos purified?

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Gel filtration - separates components according to size
Also HPLC purification

Impurities include truncated oligos, cleaved PG, chemically-modded bases

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What is depurination?

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Side reaction in oligo synthesis, loss of purine

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What can occur after depurination?

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DNA chain cleavage

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What occurs in mutagenesis?

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DNA chain grows on thymine base

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What is a side reaction with acrylonitrile in oligo synthesis?
Need a scavenger
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What is the scavenger required for acrylonitrile?
Diethylamine
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What are the steps in phosphoramidite monomer synethsis?
1) Protection of amines (not needed for T) 2) Tritylation of 5' OH 3) Protected phosphorylation of 3' OH
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What is the 1st step of phosphoramidite monomer synthesis?
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What is the 2nd and 3rd steps of phosphoramidite monomer synthesis?
Cannot react at 3' OH as sterically hindered
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How are nucleotides added to the synthetic resin?
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What are the differences of DNA and RNA synthesis?
2'-OH in RNA makes more difficult t-butyldimethylsilyl group used to protect 2'-OH group, removed using TBAF at end Longer coupling times due to steric of pg Capping reagent changed as to negate effect of acyl exchange at protected amino groups of bases
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What occurs in RNA synthesis if 2'-OH not protected?
Backbone migration or cleavage
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What are the steps in RNA synthesis?
1) Acylation 2) Tritylation 3) TMSCl protection of 2'-OH 4) Phosphorylation of 3'-OH 5) Deprotection of 2'-OH
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What is the first step in RNA synthesis?
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What are the 2nd and 3rd steps of RNA sytnthesis?
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What is the 4th step of RNA synthesis?
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What is epigenetics caused by?
DNA with modified nucleobases which interact with proteins to regulate gene expression
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What are endo and exonucleases?
Endonuclease - enzyme that cleaves within dsDNA (specific to a sequence) Exonuclease - enzyme that cleaves from termini of ssDNA and/or dsDNA (normally termini specific)
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What is DNA ligase?
Enzyme which covalently joins 5' phosphate and 3'-OH of two dsDNAs
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What is the use of PCR?
Exponential amplification of dsDNA
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What are the number of copies in PCR?
No of copies = 2N where N is the number of cycles (exponential)
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What are the steps of PCR?
Deaturation (~90C) - causes H bonds to break so single stranded Annealing (~50C) - polymerase binds to new ssDNA on primers Extension (~72C) - polymerase adds nucleosides to grow complementary strand and form 2xdsDNA
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What direction does DNA polymerase work for replication?
5' to 3' direction Active site holds new nucleosides in correct direction
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How do proofing exonuclases work?
3' to 5' exconuclease remvoes incorrect bases at the end
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What types of ends do endonucleases make?
Always leave a 5' phosphate and 3' hydroxyl
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What is required for a ligase?
ATP required Enzyme joins together dsDNA/dsRNA with "sticky" duplex forming ends Can do with blunt but less efficient
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What are the steps of ligase action?
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How are restriction and ligation enzymes used?
Restriction enzymes cut DNA with sticky ends Fragments with matching overhangs introduced Ligase causes phosphodiester bond to be formed
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What is a vector and the transformation process?
Vector - plasmid Transformation - insertion into bacteria Single colony of bacteria will produce a single DNA clone
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What is polymerase chain assembly?
Larger and larger fragments of genes produced until full length template is synthesised
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How are errors in gene synthesis corrected?
Repair enzymes: Cleave 2nd/3rd bond 3' to mismatch on both strands Single stand exonuclease then chews up overhanging ssDNA 3' to 5' Then polymerase chain assembly
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Why are 2 different endonuclease sites used for inserting genes into vectors?
Otherwise the backbone can religate and DNA can insert in both directions
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What is Gibson assembly?
1-step isothermal recombination of DNAs Requires exonuclease, polymerase, and a ligase No restriction sites required
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What is the mechanism of the gibson assembly?
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What is a problem with PCR?
Mutations are also replicated
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What is error-prone PCR?
Use unequal dNTPs, add Mn2+, etc. Increases error rate
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Why is directed evolution used for asymm synthesis?
When completed: * increase in yield and stereselec * reduction in waste * elimination of heavy metals * reduction in cost * avoids need for high-pressure hydrogenation equipment
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How is mRNA synthesised?
Process: 1) Initiation - RNA polymerase binds to promoter on DNA and forms first few bonds 2) Elongation - new strand has nucleotides added to it 3) Termination
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How can you do RNA analysis?
Relies on enzyme reverse transcriptase which synthesises a complementary DNA (cDNA) strand from RNA RNAse H degrades RNA when bound to DNA cDNA can then be amplified and analysed
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How can you complete reverse transcription?
* Analyse mRNA using a poly-T tail, as m-RNA only has an A-tail * Random primers - used to analyse total RNA, not just mRNA * Gene-specific primers - used to analyse specific RNA sequences
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What is Western Blotting?
Used to analyse specific proteins form a cell Can therefore detect changes in levels of specific single proteins without purification (uses antibodies)
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How does a protein recognized?
1 antibody bonds to protein of interest 2nd recognises primary antibody and is conjugated to the enzyme Enzyme oxidises luminol and releases light via chemiluminescence
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How does a protein recognized?
1 antibody bonds to protein of interest 2nd recognises primary antibody and is conjugated to the enzyme Enzyme oxidises luminol and releases light via chemiluminescence
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What is the mechanism for luminol chemiliminescence?
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What is RNA interference (RNAi)?
small strands of dsRNA containing an antisense strand complementary to a seqence in the target mRNA Then RISC binds and cleaves the target mRNA
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How does CRISPR-Cas9 work?
Gene editing tech Breaks ds at specific place in genome by Cas9 and guide RNA (gRNA) Then knock-out or knock-in occurs
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What is knock-out in CRISPR?
Frame-shift disrupts original gene sequence Means cannot express a protein
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What is knock-in in CRISPR?
New sequence gives new function

Year 2 - Chem (23 decks)

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