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Lect 1 Functions/Dysfunction of Genomic Regulation Flashcards

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The nucleus comprises _% of the total volume of Hepatocytes

What is its role in the cell?

A

6%

Cell regulation, Proliferation, and DNA transcription

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What is the Central Dogma?

RNA can be _ into DNA and RNA viruses use this enzyme

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DNA (Replication w/ Mitosis) –> RNA –> Protein

Reverse Transcribed (Reverse Transcriptase)

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Name the Purine Bases

Name the Pyrimidine Bases

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  • Adenine, Guanine, Hypoxanthine, Xanthine
  • Cytosine, Uracil, Thymine
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2 Big features about DNA

The bases are connected via _ bonds

A has _ bonds to T

G has _ bonds to C

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Double Stranded and Anti-Parallel

Hydrogen Bonds

A has 2 H-Bonds with T

G has 3 H-Bonds with C

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Mitotic chromosomes are condensed 500x when compared to interphase chromosomes, Why?

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To prevent physical damage to DNA as chromosomes separate and pass on to daughter cells

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Nucleosomes are made up of what?

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DNA and Histone Octamer

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Approximately 20% of histone protein AA residues are what? Why those two?

What is the target of post translational modications in histone proteins?

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  • Lysine (Lys, K) or Arginine (Arg, R)
    • Lots of (+++) charge attracted to negatively charged DNA backbone
  • Lysine residues
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What are the basic unit of chromosome packing?

Proteins that bind to DNA made up to two classes

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Nucleosomes

Histone Proteins and Non-Histone Chromosomal Proteins (TFs)

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Each nucleosome core particle consist of a complex of how many proteins?

Protein + DNA = _

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8 histone proteins (Histone Octamer)

Chromatin

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Euchromatin is the _ portion of the genome

What color does it stain?

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Active

Light

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Heterochromatin is _ chromatin that contains very few active genes

What color does it stain?

Where is it highly concentrated?

What is the Position Effect?

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Very condensed, inactive chromatin

Dark

Telomeres and Centromeres

Activity of a gene depends on relative position on chromosome

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DNA History

Watson and Crick described the helical structure of DNA when?

The genetic code was determined when?

Sequence of human genome was announced when?

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1953

1966

February, 2001

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_% of the human DNA sequence in exons and responsible for protein coding

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1.5%

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Alternative RNA Splicing

99% of all Introns begin with _ and end with _

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Begin with GT and end with AG

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Histone Deacetylation causes what?

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Active Repression of Gene Expression

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Histone Acetylation causes what?

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Active Promotion of Gene Expression

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Histone Proteins Undergo Post-Translational Modification (PTM)

Types of PTMs on Histone Tails include: _

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Methylation

Acetylation

Phosphorylation

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Methyl groups are added to the which DNA bases?

Which enzymes are used?

DNA Methylation will repress what?

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Cytosine and Adenine

Methyl Transferase enzymes

Gene Transcription when at a Gene Promoter

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Hyper- and Hypo-DNA-Methylation in Cancer

What is the significance of alterations in DNA Methylation?

Gene Promoter CpG Islands acquire abnormal hypermethylation which leads to _

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  • Important Component of Cancer Development
  • Transcriptional silencing
    • Can be inherited by daughter cells following cell division
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DNA-dependent DNA polymerase synthesizes new DNA from _ to _ direction

DNA polymerase requires what to begin processing?

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5’ to 3’ Direction

A primer with a free 3’ -OH to begin

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DNA Replication is _

The replication fork leads to _

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Semi-Conservative (Daughter and Parent Strand)

Bi-Directional DNA Replication

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DNA Replication is Semi-Discontinuous with _ synthesis of the Leading Strand and _ formed with Discontinuous synthesis of the lagging strand

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Continuous synthesis of leading strand

Okazaki Fragments

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Nomenclature of Bases

Building block of DNA is a deoxyribonucleotide which is composed of _

A

2-deoxyribose with a base attached at the 1’ position and phosphate attached at the 5’ position

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DNA Helicase function?

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Unwinds DNA by binding and hydrolyzing ATP

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Single Stranded DNA Binding Protein (SSBP) function?

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  • Binds to ssDNA & straightens region of chain
    • Help stabilize unwound DNA
    • Prevent hairpin formation
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Topoisomerase function?

What is it called in Bacteria?

Why would this be targetted?

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Relieves overwound supercoils

DNA Gyrase

Drugs targeting Topoisomerase are used as anti-cancer agents

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What cellular consequences occur by using Topoisomerase Inhibitors as Anti-Cancer Agents?

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Blocks cell cycle

Generate single and double stranded breaks

Harms integrity of genome

Leads to apoptosis and cancer cell death

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Nucleoside Analog Inhibitors of DNA Synthesis

DNA synthesis involves forming 3’ to 5’ phosphodiester bonds, nucleoside analogues lacking 3’ -OH group act as drugs inhibiting what process?

What nucleosides need to be converted to dNTPs before they can act as inhibitors of DNA polymerase?

A

DNA replication

Arabinosylcytosine (ara-C, cytarabine); Acylguanosine (acyclovir); azidothymidine (AZT)

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DNA Ligase function

A

Seal nicks of DNA between Okazaki fragments

30
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What is the term for UV radiation (sun) producing covalent linkages between two adjacent T-T or C-T?

What is another name for this radiation?

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Pyrimidine Dimers

Non-Ioninzing Radiation

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DNA damage can also occur from exposure to reactive forms of O2 in the cell or chemicals in the environment. What is this radiation called?

A

Ionizing Radiation

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Spontaneous DNA Damage

What does depurination mean?

What does deamination mean?

A

Purine base (adenine/guanine) removed from nucleotide

Amino group of purine/pyrimidine is base is hydrolyzed (C –> U, A –> H, G –> X, 100 bases/day)

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Possible Outcomes of Spontaneous DNA Damage

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DNA Replication Ensues or Base Deletion/Substitution

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Methylated Cytosine Residues in CpG Sites/Islands are problematic and causes what?

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Methylation of CpG islands staby silences genes (Cancer/DNA Repair Genes)

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DNA Damage Caused by Chemical Agents

What are Cross-Linking agents?

What are Alkylating Agents?

What are Intercalating Agents?

A
  • Nitrogen Mustard, Cisplatin, Mitomycin C, Carmustine
  • Dimethyl Sulfate (DMS), Methyl Methanesulfonate (MMS)
  • Thalidomide
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Direct Repair (Enzymatic Repair) is used for what type of damage?

What enzyme is used?

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Pyrimidine Dimer

Photolyase + Light

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Base Excision Repair is used for what type of damage?

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  • Single base mismatches and nondistorting alterations (Depurination)
38
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Nucleotide Excision Repair is used for what type of damage?

What condition can occur with deficiency in this repair mechanism?

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  • Chemical adducts distorting DNA (Pyrimidine Dimers, BPDE-guanine adducts, cisplatin adducts)
  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum
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Xeroderma Pigmentosusm is caused by what?

What are the consequences of this malfunction and what happens at the DNA level?

A

Defects in proteins of NER Complex

Skin extremely sensitive to direct sunlight, prone to developing melanomas and squamos cell carcinomas

UV radiation causes thymine dimers to form

40
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Mismatch Excision Repair used for what type of damage?

What two proteins are used in the MER Complex?

What disorder is associated with MER deficiency? How is it inherited?

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  • Mismatched base in daughter strand
  • MutS and MutL
  • Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC)
    • Autosomal Dominant Manner
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Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancers (HNPCC) is caused by what?

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Inherited mutations in one of the alleles of genes in the MER complex –> increased susceptibility to HNPCC

Acquired mutation in remaining good copy of gene –> MER system non functional –> tumor development

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Double Strand Break Repair (Recombination Repair)

What is Nonhomologous End Joining?

What is Homologous Recombination?

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  • Nonhomologous End Joining:
    • Rejoins ends by DNA ligation (one or more nucleotides lost)
  • Homolgous Recombination
    • Damaged duplex repair using information on undamaged homologous duplex
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Breast Cancer can occur due to mutations in what genes?

What repair mechanism is associated with these mutations?

A

BRCA1 and BRCA2 are tumor suppressor genes

Homologous recombination repair

44
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Transcription Coupled Repair is used for what type of damage?

What disorder is associated with this mechanism?

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Initiated when RNA polymerase stalls at a lesion in the DNA template strand during transcription

Cockayne’s Syndrome

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Cockayne’s Syndrome is caused by what?

What are the consequences?

What type of inheritance is it?

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  • Defect in Transcription Coupled Repair (TCR)
    • RNA polymerase permanently stalled at sites of damage in important genes
  • Growth retardation, skeletal abnormalities, sensitivity to sunlight
  • Autosomal Recessive Congetial Disorder
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Post Translational Modifications (PTMs) (P-A-M-U-S)

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  • Phosphorylation
  • Acetylation
  • Methylation
  • Ubiquitination
  • SUMOylation
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What is Epigenetics?

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  • Mechanism for regulating gene activity indenpendent of DNA sequence determining which genes are turned on or off:
    • In a particular cell type
    • In different disease states
    • In response to physiological stimulus
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Epigenetic Mechanisms are affected by these factors and processes:

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Development (in utero, childhood)

Environmental chemicals

Drugs/Pharmaceuticals

Aging

Diet

49
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HDAC inhibitors are used as _

A

Anticancer Agents

50
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CpG Islands vs CpG Sites and Methylation

A

Methylation of CpG Islands (Promoter/Regulator Regions) is more significant than Methylation of CpG Sites (Random Sites)

70% of promoters contain CpG islands proximal to start of transcription

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Significance of Methylation of CpG Islands?

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Multiple methylated CpG sites in CpG islands of promoters stably silences genes

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Ubiquitin attaches where on proteins?

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Attached to lysine residues on target proteins

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