Blake_Biochem_20-21_Nucleotides Flashcards
Nucleotides
Phosphate esters of nucleosides
Containe a base, a sugar, and a phosphate
Heirarchy of Nucleic acids
- Nucleic acids (polynucleotides)
- Covalently-Bonded Nucleotides
- H-Bond bind complementary Nucleic Acids
- Nucleotides (base - sugar - phosphate)
- Nucleosides
- Phosphoric Acid
- Nucleosides
- Bases (purines and pyrimidines)
- Sugars (ribose and deoxyribose
Nucleosides
a base (purine or pyrimidine) with a sugar (ribose or deoxyribose) with NO phosphate
List the Purine bases
Adenine*
Guanine*
Hypoxanthine
Xanthine
*involved in genetic code
List the pyrimidine bases
Cytosine
Uracil
Thymine
Nucleoside of Hypoxanthine
Inosine
How are nucleosides abreviated?
Prefix+sine
How are nucleotides abbreviated?
Nucleoside monoposphate
eg Inosine -> IMP
how are ribose nucleotides converted to deoxynucleotides?
ribonucleotide reductase
what else is required for reduction of ribose by rionucleotide reductase?
NADPH
(ATP stimulates)
what inhibits ribonucleotide reductase?
dATP
How are sugars (ribose or deoxyribose) attached to bases?
N-glycosidic bond
what kinds of bonds attach the first phosphate to the ribose-sugar in a nucleotide?
Phosphoric acid ester bonds
what kind of bonds link the 2nd and 3rd phosphates to a nucleotide?
Phosphoric acid anhydride bonds
Hydrolysis Energies:
ATP⇒ADP+Pi
ATP⇒AMP+PPi
PPi⇒Pi+Pi
- ATP⇒ADP+Pi (Delta G= -7.3 kcal/mol)
- ATP⇒ AMP+PPi (DeltaG= -10.9 kcal/mol)
- PPi ⇒Pi+Pi (DeltaG= -4.0kcal/mol)
How many base pairs per turn of the double helix?
How long is the spacing of one nucleotide pair?
10
3.4Å