Finals - Mutation Flashcards
any heritable change in the DNA
mutation
importance of mutation
- may have deleterious or advantageous consequences to an organism (or its descendants)
- genetic studies
- major source of genetic variation which fuels evolutionary change
Types of mutations based on no. of bases changed
- point mutation
- multiple mutation
involves a single base pair
point mutation
involves two or more bp
multiple mutation
point mutations
- base substitution
- framshift mutation
two types of base substitution
- transition
- transversion
purine to purine; pyrimidine to pyrimidine
transition
purine to pyrimidine; pyrimidine to purine
transversion
two types of frameshift mutation
- base addition
- base deletion
frameshift to the left
base addition
frameshift to the right
base deletion
Types of mutation based on consequences of change in terms of amino acid sequence affected
- silent mutation
- neutral mutation
- missense mutation
- nonsense mutation
results in the same amino acid
silent mutation
resutls in substitution of an amino acid with similar chemical properties
neutral mutation
results in substitution of a different amino acid
missense mutation
results in a stop codon
nonsense mutation
process of altering an organism’s genetic information, which can occur naturally or through a variety of experimental technique
Mutagenesis
Two types of mutagenesis
- spontaneous
- induced
- occurs as a result of natural processes in cells
- could be due to evasion of proofreading by DNA pol I
spontaneous mutagenesis
occurs as a result of interaction of DNA with an outside agent or mutagen
induced mutagenesis
anything that causes mutation
mutagen
Different spontaneous mutations
- uncorrected mismatches
- tautomerization
- replication slippage
- spontaneous depurination
- spontaneous deamination
Errors during DNA synthesis, if uncorrected, give rise to mutations in the next round of replication.
uncorrected mismatches
- proton shift
- bases of DNA are capable of existing in two forms by which they interconvert
- occurs when the tautomeric form of a base pairs with a non-complementary base, which becomes fixed in the DNA sequence after replication
tautomerization
Two types of tautomerization
- keto (C=O) <-> enol (C=OH)
- amino (NH2) <-> imino (NH)
DNA base pairing in tautomeric state
- A-C
- T-G
- in template DNA with short repeated sequences
- results in frameshift mutation
- happens when either template/new DNA loops out
replication slippage
cause of replication slippage
when either template/new DNA loops out
looping out of new strand
one base insertioin on new strand
looping out of template strand
one base deletion on new strand
- loss of purine bases (adenine and guanine) from DNA.
- N-glycosyl bond to deoxyribose is broken by hydrolysis, leaving the DNA’s sugar–phosphate chain intact, producing an abasic site
Spontaneous Depurination