ME01 - Amino Acids and Peptides Flashcards
Difference of alpha helix and B sheets
ALPHA HELIX
Polypeptide backbone twisted
R groups face outward
Stability due to H bonds between oxygen of the peptide bond carbonyl and H atom of the peptide bond nitrogen
Peptide backbone is highly extended
AA residues form zigzag or pleated pattern
R groups point on opposite direction
What provides the thermodynamic driving force of alpha helices
The maximum number of H bonds coupled with Van der Waals forces
Proline and alpha helix
Proline lack a Hydrogen atom and could only be stable accommodated within the first turn
Glycine and alpha helix
Glycine induces a bend
Types of Beta-Sheet – Parallel and Adjacent
Parallel - adjacent segments proceed in the same amino to carboxyl
Antiparallel - opposite directions
Isolating specified protein for determination of physical and functional protein properties
Protein Purification
Approaches for Protein Purification
pH (isoelectric precipitation)
Polarity (ethanol or acetone precipitation)
Salt concentration (ammonium sulfate salting)
Optimal separation achieved by manipulation of the composition of the 2 phases
CHROMATOGRAPHY
Mobile and Stationary Phase
Proteins interacting more strongly with the stationary phase are retained longer
True.
Conformation vs Configuration
CONFORMATION
- Spatial relationship between atoms
- Interconversion does not need bond rupture
- Retention of configuration
- Rotation about single bonds
CONFIGURATION
- Geometric relationship between atoms
- Interconversion needs breaking of covalent bonds
- L-amino acids vs D-amino acids
How do you extract soluble proteins
Extract using aqueous solutions at physiologic pH and ionic strength
Type of proteins requires detergent solutions
Integral membrane proteins
What are the stationary and mobile phase of Column Chromatography?
Stationary phase: column containing spherical beads or modified cellulose, acrylamide or silica whose surface has been coated with chemical functional groups
Mobile phase: Liquid type. Percolated and goes through.
Small portions of the mobile phase/eluant are collected
Separation of mixture in columns based on partition of a solute between 2 solvents one of which is immobilized by the substance in the column or paper
Partition Chromatography
Also known as gel filtration
Size Exclusion Chromatography
What type of Chromatography uses Stoke radius
Size Exclusion Chromatography
Separates proteins based on their Stoke radius
Size Exclusion Chromatography
Relation of Stoke Radius with Size Exclusion Chromatography
Proteins with large Stoke radii remain in the eluent and emerge before the proteins that have a smaller Stokes radii and are able the porous beads
Protein mixture is applied to a column under conditions where protein of interest associates with the stationary phase
Absorption Chromatography
Partition coefficient is unity = 1
How are proteins sequentially released and what to use for Size Exclusion Chromatography
By disrupting the forces that stabilize the protein-stationary phase complex.
A gradient of increasing salt concentration.
Why is the mobile phase in Size Exclusion Chromatography being gradually altered?
So that molecules are selectively released in descending order of their affinity.
Method of protein selection that employs incompressible silica or alumina microbeads as stationary phase and pressures of up to a few thousand psi
High_Pressure Liquid Chromatography
HPLC and incompressible matrices
Incompressible matrices permit both high flow rate and enhanced resolution
Complex mixtures of lipids or peptides uses what type of chromatography
High Pressure Liquid Chromatography
Exploits a hydrophobic stationary phase or aliphatic polymers 3-18 carbon atoms in length
Reversed phase HPLC
How are peptide mixtures eluted using HPLC
By using a gradient of a weak-miscible organic solvent such as acetonitrite or methanol
Proteins interact with the stationary phase via charge-charge interactions
Ion Exchange Chromatography
Concept of Ion Exchange Chromatography
Proteins with (+) charge at a given pH adhere beads with negatively charged functional groups such as carboxylates or sulfates (cation exchangers)
Why is it called “Ion-Exchange Chromatography”
“Ion-exchange” because proteins compete with monovalent ions for binding
Negatively charged proteins bind to diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) cellulose via replacing the Cl- or CH3COO-. What type of Chromatography is used?
Ion Exchange Chromatography
Proteins elute in inverse order of strength of their interactions with stationary phase?
Ion Exchange Chromatography
How do you achieve sequential elution in Ion Exchange Chromatography?
pH manipulation. Since it involves ions and charges
Separates via tendency to associate with a stationary phase matrix coated with hydrophobic groups phenyl Sepharose, octyl Sepharose
Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography
Relation of Ionic Strength with Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography
High Ionic Strength enhances adherance of proteins with exposed hydrophobic surfaces to the matrix via hydrophobic interactions
Polarity and Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography
Polarity of mobile phase is decreased gradually lowering salt interaction
What is added to decrease the polarity and weaken hydrophobic interactions?
Ethanol or Glycerol
Exploits high selectivity of most proteins for their ligands. What type of Chromatography is used?
Affinity Chromatography
How are enzymes purified in Affinity Chromatography?
By using immobilized substrates, products, coenzymes or inhibitors
How are bound proteins eluted in Affinity Chromatography?
Either by competition with soluble ligand or less selectively by disrupting protein-ligand interactions using urea, guanidine HCl, mildly acidic pH and high salt concentration
Stationary phase of Affinity Chromatography
Contain ligands such as NAD+ or ATP analogs
Most powerful and widely applicable affinity matrices are used for – in Affinity Chromatography?
Recombinant protein purifications
Recombinant Protein Purification is involved and what type of Chromatography?
Affinity Chromatography
Explain Recombinant Protein Purifications
Uses an Ni2+ matrix that binds proteins with an attached polyhistidine tag and a glutathione matrix that binds a recombinant protein linked to glutathione S-transferase
Most widely used method for determining protein purity
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
What is used in Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis?
Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
Concept of Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
Electrophoresis separates charged biomolecules based on the rates at which they migrate in an applied electrical field
What is polymerized and cross-linked to form porous matrix
Acrylamide
Denatures and binds to protein at a ration of one molecule per 2 peptide bonds in Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
SDS - Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
What is used to to reduce or break disulfide bonds in Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
2-Mercatoethanol or Dithiothreitol
What determines the rate of migration in Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
The physical resistance encountered by the polypeptide
Polypeptides and Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
Polypeptides separate based on their relative molecular mass (Mr)
What stain is used when individual polypeptides are trapped in the gel in the Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
Coomassie Blue
Ionic buffers and an applied electric field are used to generate pH gradient within a polyacrylamide matrix
Isoelectric Focusing
Explain Isoelectric Focusing
Applied proteins migrate until they reach the region of the matrix where the pH at which a molecule’s net charge is 0.
The one who determined the amino acid sequence of Insulin
Frederick Sanger
Separated both chains by reducing disulfide bonds and cleaved with trypsin, chymotrypsin and pepsin.
Sanger Amino Acid Sequencing
Who introduced Edman’s reagent?
Pehr Edman. Other term for Edman’s reagent is phenylisothiocyanate
Phenylthiohydantoin (PTH) derivative can be removed under mild conditions to generate a new amino terminal residue
EDMAN Amino Acid Sequencing
What is necessary to circumvent post translational modifications and to render a proteins alpha-amino group unreactive to Edman’s reagent
Cleavage
Steps for EDMAN Amino Acid Sequencing
Cleavage
Peptides are purified by reversed phase HPLC
Sequencing
Provides a partial amino acid sequence
EDMAN Amino Acid Sequencing
Oligonucleotide primers modeled are used to ID the gene and amplify it using PCR
Hybrid Approach
STEPS in Hybrid Approach
ID the gene
Oligonucleotide sequence is determined to infer the primary structure of the encoded polypeptide
Enhances the speed and efficiency of primary structure analysis
Hybrid Approach
Only a few segments of the primary structure should be determined by what approach
Edman’s approach
Order of which amino acids are added in DNA sequencing
Proteolytic processing Methylation Glycosylation Phosphorylation Proline and Lysine Hydroxylation Disulfide bond formation
Replaced Edman’s sequencing
Mass Spectrometry
How is post translational modification identified in Mass Spectrometry
Via Mass increments