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Micronutrients 2: Water-soluble And Fat (lipid)-soluble Vitamins Flashcards

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What did Lucy Will’s discover?

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“Will’s factor” to treat macrocytic anaemia in pregnant women

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What is Will’s factor?

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A nutritional factor in yeast that both prevents and cures macrocytic anaemia

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What is macrocytic anaemia? (Large cell anaemia)

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Megalobastic anaemia;
Cells cannot produce DNA quickly enough to divide at the correct time
Cells therefore grow too large before division
One cause is a lack of the B group vitamin folate required for DNA synthesis

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What are folic acids and its derivatives (b9) known as?

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Folates

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What do coenzymes derived from folic acid participate in the generation and utilisation of?

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Single carbon functional groups (methyl- CH3, methylene- CH2, formyl HCO)

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What are folates essential for?

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Cell growth and tissue development and must come from exogenous sources since mammals can not synthesis these derivatives de novo (so accessed from veges etc)

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What are the three major structural components of folic acid?

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  1. A bicyclic, heterocyclic pteridine ring
  2. P-amino benzoic acid (PABA)
  3. Glutamic acid (folic acid is a monoglutamic acid)
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What is pteridine ring found in?

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A large class of biological pigments- particularly butterfly wings

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How many successive reductions converts folic acid to tetrahydrofolate?

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2

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What happens to folic acid once inside a cell?

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It’s converted to active forms by two successive reductions (of the pyrazine part of the pteridine ring)

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What are both reactions in the conversion of folic acid to tetrahydrofolate catalysed by?

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The NADPH-specific enzyme dihydrofolate reductase

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What’s the electron donor/reducing agent in the conversion of folic acid to tetrahydrofolate?

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NADPH

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What yields a poly-y-glutamate tail in the tetrahydrofolate?

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The addition of additional glutamic acid residues in liver cells

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What are the derivatives of folate/tetrahydrofolate?

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Bacteria and higher plants

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15
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What do folate/tetrahydrofolate exist as in bacteria and higher plants?

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Polyglutamate (more than one tail)

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Where does the conversion of folate into a monoglutamate form (from polyglutamate) occur?

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In the intestine where it’s absorbed by active transports

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What happens to folate in the intestinal cells?

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There’s a conversion into an active form

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How many reductase occur in the conversion of folate in intestinal cells?

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Two- by dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR)

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19
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How much tetrahydrofolate is stored in the liver?

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1/2

20
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What happens to tetrahydrofolate in the liver?

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There’s the addition of glutamate residues

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What does the addition of glutamate residues to tetrahydrofolate do?

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  1. Helps retain tetrahydrofolate inside cells as a poor substrate for anion transporter
  2. Helps the tetrahydrofolate bind more tightly to enzymes
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What is the role of tetrahydrofolate of single carbon units?

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To be in the N5 and N10 positions in the THF

23
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What is the carbon unit transfer involved in the synthesis of? (In tetrahydrofolate)

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Amino acids
Purines
Deoxythmidine monophosphate

24
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What are the building blocks for DNA/RNA (ie precursors)?

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Purines

Deoxythymidine monophosphate

25
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What are folic acid and it’s many derivatives referred to as?

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Folates

26
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What do co-enzymes derived from folic acid participate in?

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The generation and utilisation of single carbon functional groups; methyl (CH3), methylene (CH2) and formyl (HCO)

27
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What are folates essential for?

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Cell growth and tissue development

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Where must folates come from?

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Exogenous sources since mammals cannot synthesise these derivatives de novo

29
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What is a target of a number of useful anti cancer, antibacterial and antiparasitic drugs

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Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR)

30
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What is antimetabolite?

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A synthetic compound, usually structurally related to the metabolite, that interferes with the metabolic to which it is related

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What is the anti cancer target to inhibit human dihydrofolate reductase?

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Aminopterin and methotrexate

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What drug targets antibacterial; inhibits bacterial DHFR?

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Trimethoprim

33
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What drug is antiparasitic and inhibits protozoa DHFR?

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Prymethamine

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What did the concept of antimetabolites as drugs arise from?

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The early work on folate metabolism

35
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What changes P-aminobenzoic acid to folic acid in micro organisms?

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Dihydropteroate synthetase

36
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What converts folic acid to tetrahydrofolic acid in humans and microorganisms?

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Dihydrofolate reductase

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What is said to have a protective effect against the development of neural tube defects (NTDs)?

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Folate

38
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What is believed to cause NTDs?

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Combination of genetic disposition and environmental influences

39
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What results in NTDs?

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Failure of closure of neural tube- two main forms depend on whether the cranial or caudal end of the neural tube is involved

40
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What is the most important cranial defect?

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Anencephaly

41
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What is anencephaly?

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When the cerebral cortex fails to develop, accounts to 1/3 of cases of NTDs, is invariably lethal with death either before or shortly after birth

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What is the principal caudal defect?

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Spina bifida

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What is Spina bifida?

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When the spinal cord develops abnormally, accounts for two thirds of NTDs and causes paralysis of the lower extremities and impaired bladder and bowel function, but its not usually fatal unless accompanied by other conditions

44
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What is the methylation hypothesis?

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A proposal that folate prevents NTDs by increasing methylation of various molecules that are essential to cellular processes

45
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What is folic acid often included in?

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Bread

46
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What are water soluble vitamins?

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B

C

47
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What are fat soluble vitamins?

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A
E
D
K

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