Exam III new material Flashcards
spontaneous lesion
small chemical modifications at a NT
depurination- sensitive to hydrolysis = missing base
deamination- C–> Uracil by addition of H2O
don’t distort backbone
Bulky lesions
covalent interactions due to UV, carcinogens, oxidative damage. Distorts double helix
copy errors
DNA pol incorporates incorrect base
Mutagen
an agent that causes DNA damage
chemical or physical
carcinogenic if causes division
chemical mutagens
intercalating agent- in between strands of DNA in helix causing stretching
base analogs- inserts into a base space but not actually a base
Indirect activating mutagens
require metabolic process to cause damage
Physical mutagens
UV radiation. shorter wavelengths=more damage. A->B->C long->short
A: oxidative
B: induces dimers in adjacent pyrimidines
C: germicide C doesn’t make it to surface of earth
Ionization radiation: ss breaks, ds breaks, cross linking
Ionization radiation
electromagnetic we use in medicine. because can travel further.
gamma rays are used in cancer therapy– ds breaks are the purpose to kill cells
Particulate radiation
not wavelengths, can’t travel very far. don’t use in medicine
Two types of DNA Repair
repair bases directly
repair bases that are incorrectly paired or bulky lesions etc..
3mechanisms of DNA repair
reverse, remove, tolerate
Base excision repair
DNA glycosylase removes purine/pyrimidine but leaves backbone
AP endonuclease recognizes site and cuts our backbone
results in single NT nick so DNA pol comes along and ligase seals
Nucleotide Excision repair, bulky
multienzyme complex
scans for distorted double helix and cleaves on either side of distortion
helicase removes ss between cleavage sites
pol and ligase come through
mismatch repair
DNA mismatch by DNA pol. following behind replication fork. To locate new synthesized strand use okazaki fragments. MutS and MutL, direct excision of entire sequence near mismatch
piece of DNA is super damaged what back up mech do we have
backup polymerases. less accurate, take guesses
trans-lesion synthesis
Transcription coupled repair
coding regions- exons. RNA pol stalls-> mech for nucleotide excision repair proteins to cut out lesion.
Double strand breaks
non homologous repair- Ku70/80 proteins recruit DNA PK.always lose NT
homologous repair, sister chromatid nearby and used as template. Holiday junction. Recognized by Rad51 and make 3’ overhangs.
DNA damage checkpoints
G1/S
S
G2/M
ATM
associates with damage and starts kinase cascade for Chk1 and Chk2 proteins to activate p53–>tumor suppressor
p53
usually ubiquitinated my Mdm2
when p53 Pi it will Pi p21 which will inhibit Cyclin/cdk complexes in cell cycle
2 major issues with stem cells
technological: Driving differentiation
and applying safety
Stem cells
have to be able to differentiate into something else and have to be able to proliferate
totipotent
total potential to be anything
pleuripotent
more directed than totipotent