Fat, Protein, Nucleic Acids, Vit, Min Flashcards
Lipase products are?
Monoacylglycerol
2 fatty acids
What is a fatty acid composed of?
Carbon chain w/COOH (carboxyl) group at end
Where are fatty acids absorbed and where do they go?
Enterocytes to liver via portal vein or re-esterified w/protein to form lipoproteins which are absorbed in central lacteals in villi to thoracic duct
Briefly describe: HDL IDL LDL VLDL Chylomicron
HDL: happy cholesterol; cis form; double bond
IDL: bad; similar to LDL
LDL: lethal cholesterol, trans form
VLDL: transport TG from liver to tissue
Chylomicron: large particles; transport dietary lipids from intestine to other locations in body
How are fats stored?
Triacylglycerols in adipose and liver
Compare/contrast saturated from unsaturated fatty acids:
Sat: no double bond btw C atoms, saturated w/H
Unsat: one+ double bonds btw C
Compare/contrast essential and non essential fatty acids:
Essential: not made by body, must be consumed, linoleic (omega-6) w/18C, linolenic (omega-3) 18C
Non: manufactured in body, arachidonic acid, is essential when linoleic is absent from diet
Where does lipolysis occur?
Mitochondria of adipocytes
What happens in the activation stage of lipolysis?
Fatty acid attached to CoA to form Acyl-CoA on outer surface mitochondria catalyzed by fatty acyl-coA sythetase and ATP
What happens in the transport phase of lipolysis?
Transport Acyl-CoA across mitochondrial membrane to matrix via special carnitine carrier syste
Acyl CoA conjugated to acyl carnitine by CAT 1 (palmitoyl carnitine) located on outer mito membrane, shuttled by translocase, converted to Acyl CoA by carnitine acyltransferase 2 on inner mitochondrial membrane and carnitine returned to cytosol
What happens in the beta oxidation phase of lipolysis?
hepatocyte mitochondria acyl fatty acid shortened 2C at a time, REDUCTION w/FAD, HYDRATION by hydratase, REDUCTION w/NAD, CLEAVAGE (thiolysis) by ketothiolase to yield ketones (acetone, acetoacetate, B-hydroxybutyrate)
What happens to acetoacetate and b-hydroxybutyrate from lipolysis?
Converted to Acetyl CoA enters Kreb cycle
What happens to the NADH and FADH2 made by lipolysis?
Sent to ETC
How is lipolysis regulated?
Hormone-sensitive lipase
Malonyl-CoA preventa Acyl-CoA derivatives from entering mitochondria by inhibiting carnitine acyltransferase inhibiting beta-ox
High citrate levels inhibit beta ox
Where does ketone body synthesis occur? In what conditions?
Mitochondria of hepatocytes
Fatty acids in high blood concentration (fasting, starvation, uncontrolled DM)
Ketone body synthesis steps?
Two acetyl CoA condene to form aetoacetyl CoA catalyzed by thiolase
Acetoacetyl Coa + acetyl CoA form HMG CCoA split to form acetyl CoA and acetoacetate then acetoacetate converts to acetone and B-hydroxybutyrate
Acetone excreted in breath (fruity)
Acetoacetate and B-hydroxybutyrate pass in blood and converted to acetyl CoA
Acetyl CoA to kreb’s cycle
Lipogenesis steps?
Excess glucose converted to acetyl CoA and then Malonyl CoA to make fatty acids
Combine w/glycerol to make TG stored in adipoe cells in body
Regulation of lipogenesis?
Stim by insulin, ATP
inhibited by glucagon, epinephrine
Where does lipolysis take place? Uses what start up substrates
Cytoplasm of cells in liver, adipose, kidney
Malonyl CoA, Acetyl CoA (1o), Citrate
Acetyl CoA Carboxylase does? Steps?
Acetyl-CoA to Malonyl CoA (RLS)
Condensation, reduction of NADPH (HMP shunt), dehydration, further reduction
Cholesterol makes steroid hormones! But how do we get cholesterol?
2 acetyl CoA condense to form acetoacetyl CoA
1 more Acetyl coA to make HMG CoA reduced to mevalonic acid by HMG CoA reductase
Converted to squalene, to lanosterol to cholesterol
Where is pregnenolone formed? Controlled by what enzyme?
Adrenal cortex
Desmolase (rate limiting step)
How does progesterone get converted to Estradiol
To Cortisol - aldosterone - DHEA
DHEA to androstenedione to testosterone to estradiol by aromatase enzyme
Essential amino acids?
Phenylalanine, valine, threonine, tryptophan, isoleucine, methionine, histidine, arginine, leucine, lysine
Phenylalanine is the precursor for epinephrine how does it get there?
Tyrosine, L-Dopa, dopamine, norepinephrine to epinephrine
What is the intermediary step between tryptophan and melatonin?
Serotonin
Non-essential amino acids?
Proline, tyrosine, glycine, alanine, glutamin, glutamate, asparagine, serine, cysteine
Which amino acid is heme made from?
Glycine (–> porphyrin)
GABA and glutathione are made from what amino acid?
Glutamate
Which amino acids are made from intermediates of glycolysis?
Serine - glycine and cysteine
3PG - serine
Pyruvate - alanine
Amino acids derived from Krebs cycle or intermediates?
Glutamate: glutamine, arginine, proline
aKG: glutamate
Aspartate: asparagine (from transamination of oxaloacetate)
1o structure of a protein:
linear sequence of amino acids forming a polypeptide chain
2o structure of a protein?
Twist with chemical forces w/in 1o linear structure
a-helix (one peptide chain 80% of hemoglobin)
b-pleated sheets: pleats containing 2+ peptides (amyloid)
3o structure of a protein:
3D shape of a single protein molecule, twisted/pleated form folded on itself, controls basic function of protein
4o structure of a protein:
spatial arrangement of subunits in protein containing 2+ polypeptide chains; each is a subunit
Glucogenic amino acids?
Histidine, methionine, threonine, valine
Ketogenic amino acids?
Lysine, leucine
Ketogenic and glucogenic amino acids?
Phenylalanine, ioleucine, tryptophan
Nitrogen removal briefly describe: Transamination Deamination Ammonia formation Urea formation
Trans: transfer NH2 from one molecule to another, enzyme is transaminase or aminotransferase
Deamination: in liver where AA broken down and converted to ammonia (glutamate to aKG, aspartate to oxaloacetate, alanine and serine to pyruvate)
Ammonia: H added to NH2
Urea formation: change toxic ammonia to non-toxic urea (NH2)2C=O
Steps in the urea cycle:
1: Ammonia combo w/CO2 and ATP = carbamoyl phosphate
2: carbamoyl phosphate + ornithin = citruline
3: citruline to rRNA combo w/aspartate to form argininosuccinate
4: agrininosuccinate broken into fumarate and arginine
5: arginine cleaved to form ornithine and urea
Ornithine back to mitochondrea
Rate limiting step in urea cycle?
Carbamoyl phosphate synthase (NH3 to carbomoyl phosphate)
Nucleotides of 3 subunits what are they?
Pentose, nitrogen base, phosphate group
Nucleosides only have 2 subunits what are they?
Pentose and nitrogenous base
Pyrimidines?
Cytosine, uracil, thymine
CUT
Purines?
Adenine, guanine