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Ch. 5 Flashcards

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What is protein purification?

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Multi-step fractionation process to isolate a single protein from a mixture

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What are the steps of cell fractionation?

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  1. Prep cells
    - Lyse cells
    - Protein activity is retained
  2. Centrifuge to get different fractions
    - Separation of organelles
  3. Salting out
  4. Dialysis
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What is salting out?

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  • Used to exploit differences in solubility of target protein relative to other proteins in the fraction
    • Adding increasing amounts of saturated salt solution to protein sample
    • Causes formation of insoluble protein aggregates that are functional when resolubilized
    • Often use (NH4)2SO4
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What is dialysis? (in terms of protein purification)

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  • Used to remove ammonium sulfate from protein sample
    • Uses diffusion to leave protein in buffer of proper ionic strength and pH
    • Pores have to be small enough that salt can exit but protein can’t
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How should total protein and specific activity change as you purify?

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Total protein should decrease as activity increases

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What are the different column chromatography techniques?

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  • Size exclusion/gel filtration
  • Ion exchange
  • Affinity
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What is column chromatography?

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Used to separate proteins based on different physical/chemical interactions between the proteins and column matrix

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What is size exclusion/gel filtration chromatography?

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Separates proteins based on size

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What is ion-exchange chromatography?

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Exploits charge differences between proteins

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What is affinity chromatography?

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Exploits specific binding properties of the target protein to separate it from other cellular proteins that lack this binding function

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What is gel electrophoresis?

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Separates proteins on the basis of charge and size

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What is SDS-PAGE?

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Separates denatured proteins by size (final step in protein purification)
- Used to approximate molecular mass of protein or determine whether purified protein includes more than 1 polypeptide chain

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What do SDS and β-mercaptoethanol do in SDS-PAGE?

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  • SDS adds a negative charge to all the proteins
  • β-mercaptoethanol breaks disulfide bonds
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What is isoelectric focusing?

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Separates proteins on the basis of charge as a function of pH

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What is 2D gel electrophoresis?

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Isoelectric focusing combined with SDS-PAGE
- Based on pI and molecular mass

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What are polyclonal antibodies?

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Heterogeneous mixture of Ig proteins that recognize 1 or more epitopes on antigenic protein

17
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What are monoclonal antibodies?

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Homogeneous Ig species that recognizes 1 epitope on antigenic protein

18
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What research methods use antibodies?

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  • Western blot
  • Affinity chromatography
  • Immunofluorescence
  • Immunoprecipitation and CoIP
  • ELISA
19
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What is a Western blot?

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Used to detect proteins separated by gel electrophoresis
- Uses primary (protein-specific) and secondary (detection) antibodies

20
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What is immunofluorescence?

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  • Used to identify proteins in cells that have been chemically treated in a way that preserves the cell’s architecture
  • After washing, cells can be visualized through fluorescence microscopy
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What is ELISA?

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  • Identifies low level antigenic proteins
  • Direct and indirect ELISA
22
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What is the Edman degradation?

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Protein sequencing method based on labeling and cleaving the N-terminal residue without disrupting the rest of the polypeptide chain

23
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How is protein cleavage carried out?

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  • Trypsin: cleaves on C side of lys and arg
  • Chymotrypsin: cleaves on C side of tyr, trp, and phe
  • Cyanogen bromide: cleaves on C side of met
  • S. aureus: cleaves on C side of asp and glu
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What kind of enzymes are trypsin and chymotrypsin?

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Proteases

25
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What is mass spectrometry?

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Method of measuring the mass-to-charge ratio of molecules, which is then used to deduce the molecular mass

26
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What is X-ray crystallography?

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Diffraction of X-rays from crystals of biomolecules is used to determine the locations of atoms in the structure

27
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What are the pros and cons of X-ray crystallography?

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  • Pro: protein can be big
  • Con: protein is dead
28
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What is NMR spectroscopy?

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Detects nuclear spin properties of certain atoms (1H, 13C, 15N) to deduce their relative locations

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What are the pros and cons of NMR spectroscopy?

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  • Pro: protein is dynamic (not dead yay)
  • Con: protein has to be small

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