Carbohydrates 1 Flashcards
Empirical formula of carbohydrate? what happens when n=1?
Cn(H2O)n or (CH2O)n
where n> or equal to 3
- carb= hydrated carbon, saccharide of sugar n=1
- > becomes H2C=O (formaldehyde), not considered a sugar
How does a plant make glucose from photosynthesis?
6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy -> C6H12O6 + 6O2
-uses energy from sun
What are the smallest and simplest sugars? (slide 5)
Trioses: smallest sugars
- Glyceraldehyde- contains an aldehyde, aldose group, 3 carbons, Carbon 2 is chiral
- Dihydroxyacetone- contains ketone, ketone group, 3 carbons
- theses sugars are interchangeable
Enantiomers of Glyceraldehyde?
- D and L enantiomers
- chiral carbon- carries 4 different groups
- forms non superimposable mirror images (hands)
- most monosaccharides are D
- most amino acids used for protein synthesis are L shape
what is the most popular dietary source and major energy source?
- Glucose (C6H12O6)- 6 carbons and 6 waters
- hexose
- aldose- has an aldehyde group on C1
What are the different structures of glucose? (slide 8)
- chain form
- Ring form- more stable ring structure in water
- C1 attacks C5
- C6 not part of the ring
What are the two conformations of ringed glucose? (slide 9)
alpha- OH group on C1 angles down, different plane from C6, more stable b/c big groups point away from each other
beta- OH group on C1 angles up, same plane as C6
-these two conformations can interchange with each other by going through the linear form
Monosaccharides?
- single sugars, monomers
- glucose
Disaccharide? how it forms? (slide 10)
- two glucose molecules can form a disaccharide (maltose) by condensation (eliminating a water molecule)
- OH on C1 of alpha glucose combines with OH on C4 of beta glucose, water releases
- glycosidic bond forms between C1 and C4 to form maltose (alpha 1, 4 glycosidic bond)
- reducing end is the C1 b/c its electrons are pulled toward oxygen, it becomes oxidized and reduces other things
Lactose? (slide 11)
- milk sugar
- galactose and glucose
- disaccharide
Sucrose? (slide 11)
- table sugar
- glucose and fructose
- disaccharide
- no free reducing group is available
Maltose? Maltotriose? Isomaltose? (slide 10)
Maltose: glucose(alpha 1, 4)-glucose
Maltotriose: glucose (alpha 1, 4) glucose (alpha 1, 4) gluc
Isomaltose: glucose (alpha 1, 6) glucose
Amylose? (slide 12)
- condense to form oligosaccharide
- only contains alpha 1, 4 glycosidic bonds
Amylopectin? (slide 12)
- condense to form oligosaccharide
- contains both alpha 1, 4 and alpha 1, 6 glycosidic bonds
What can Amylose and Amylopectin combine to form? (slide 12)
- starch (plants) or glycogen (animals)- polysaccharides
- sugars linked with alpha 1,4 (linear to form amylose) and alpha 1, 6 (branched to form amylopectin)
Difference between starch and glycogen? Same? (slide 12)
- Starch is in plants
- Glycogen is in animals
- chemically they are the same
- Glycogen is more branched and has higher molecular weight
- they both have one reducing end (more chemically active) with many non reducing ends (metabolically more active especially in glycogen- can be cut off quickly to use glucose)
What is cellulose? how is it formed? (slide 13)
- dietary fiber, indigestible carbohydrates
- glucose molecules linked by beta 1, 4 glycosidic bonds
- mulitple cellulose chains linked together in parallel by H bonds form strong fibrils, elastic, used by trees to form cell membranes
- functions in smooth movement of bowels
Glycoproteins?
- protein glycosylation to form a carb/protein mix
- more protein than carbohydrate
- membrane bound
- secreted
Proteoglycans?
- protein glycosylation to form a carb/protein mix
- more carbohydrate than protein
- mucins (mucus)
- lectins (cell-cell interaction)
Protein glycosylation in blood type? (slide 14)
- three genes encode different glycosyltransferases (A, B, O)
- inherited from each parent (OO, OA, OB, AB)
- backbone structure is the same but end is different
Process of digestion of dietary carbohydrates? (slide 16)
- dietary carbohydrates (starch, lactose, sucrose, glycogen) are digested to monosaccharides before absorption
- when in mouth, salivary alpha-amylase (endoglucosidase) hydrolyzes the internal alpha 1, 4 glycosidic bonds between glucose residues in starch which produces di and tri saccharides and starch alpha-dextrins (average 8 glucose units with one or more alpha 1, 6 glycosidic bond)
- action of salivary amylase stops at stomach
- in the lumen of small intestine, pancreatic alpha-amylase (endoglucosidase) continues digestion of starch dextrins to oligosaccharides, trisaccharides, and disaccharides, (maltose and isomaltose)
- Enzymes (maltase, isomaltase, sucrase, lactase) located in the brush border of small intestine digest oligo, tri, and disaccharides to generate monosaccharides
- Enzymes on brush border are present in complexes, these enzymes are on the membranes of intestinal epithelial cells with alpha helix transmembrane domains and longer extracellular domains, extending out from cells
- Glucose, Galactose, Fructose are transported into epithelial cells first, and then transported to the portal circulation that takes them to tissues
- undigested and indigestible carbs (cellulose) are excreted along with dietary fiber
What happens to people who have digestive enzyme deficiencies such as a lactase deficiency?
- cannot digest carbs completely
- the undigested carbs are then digested by bacteria in large intestine, which could generate large volumes of CO2 and H2, causing abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and flatulence
What are some factors that lead to lactase deficiency? treatments?
- age dependent lactose intolerance- capacity to digest lactose decreases after infancy, adulthood lactase activity is genetically determined
- intake of lactose has some effect on lactase expression
- hereditary lactose intolerance- 25% of all adults in US, more common in Asians, African Americans, Natives
- treatment- reduce or avoid dairy products, take lactase supplements with meal, take foods with live microorganisms (probiotics)
Why is brush border membrane of the small intestine folded?
- like mitochondria, it increases surface area
- allows more nutrients to be absorbed
What facilitates fructose transport in intestine? (slide 18)
GLUT 5
- located on both luminal and basolateral sides of intestinal epithelial cells
- facilitated diffusion- high to low concentration
What facilitates glucose transport in intestine? (slide 18)
GLUT 1
-facilitated diffusion (passive transport)
What is SGLT1? (slide 18)
- Na+ glucose cotransporter (occurs in epithelial cells of intestines and renal tubule)
- not facilitated diffusion, secondary active transporter
- can bring galactose, glucose from the lumenal side to the bloodstream against the concentration gradient, low to high
- Na+ moves into the cell down its gradient
- coupled with Na+/K+ ATPase, involves use of energy
Process of Glucose and Galactose transport in epithelial cells of intestine? (slide 19)
- Glucose goes into luminal side (low glucose concentration) of the cell by facilitated diffusion by GLUT1
- Glucose and Galactose are transported against their gradient by SGLT1, and Na+ is transported down its gradient at the same time
- Glucose and Galactose is transported into the blood stream on the basolateral (high glucose concentration) side of the cell by facilitated diffusion by GLUT1
- Na+ is transported out of the cell against its gradient by Na+/K+ ATPase, while K+ is transported into the cell, ATP is used
Functions of GLUT1 and GLUT3?
- present in many cell membranes
- basal transporters of glucose at a constant rate into tissues that are metabolically dependent on glucose (brain, RBCs)
- have lower Km (higher affinity) for glucose than GLUT2
Functions of GLUT2?
- present in liver and pancreatic beta cells
- very high Km value for glucose, low affinity
- glucose only enters these tissues when there are high concentrations in blood
- pancreas senses glucose levels and adjusts the rate of insulin secretion
- functional GLUT2 is needed for proper insulin secretion to remove glucose from blood for storage (glycogen, fat)
Summary of glucose transporters? (slide 20)
- insulin dependent or insulin independent
- several glucose transporter proteins mediate the thermodynamically downhill movement of glucose across plasma membranes
- see chart
What is Km? (slide 21)
- michaelis constant
- a characteristic of transporters
- Km is the concentration (molarity) when V= 1/2 Vmax
- Km is inversely proportional to affinity for substrate