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Midterm 1 Review Flashcards

1
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Disadvantages of cell compartmentalization

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  • having to develop the channels to get things through membranes → costs energy
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Velocity Curve

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  • rate of the reaction as a function of increasing substrate concentration
  • an enzyme might have very low activity until you get higher substrate concentration
  • km = rate of binding (k1) and the concentration of substrate to product (k2)
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3
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Native Structure

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  • structure the protein needs to function
  • stable bc its low energy
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Prions

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  • protein can become trapped in a non-native intermediate structure (mutation causes it to have a low energy state similar to that of the native structure)
  • protein becomes trapped in a “energy trap” -> cant go back over to the native structure without putting energy to make it go over the energy humps
  • have an intermediate structure that is low in energy so it doesn’t take the prion much to flip it
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5
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Amyloid diseases

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  • unfolded intermediate that can self-assemble into fibrils
  • neurons are being choked by aggregates of prion proteins
  • prions can force a normally folded protein into the prion state → creating a big ball of rubber bands which is lethal
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Phosphorylation potential

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free energy change of hydrolysis

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7
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Le Chatelier’s Principle

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  • rxn change → new Keq
  • dynamic equilibrium → never static, constant flow of going forward & backwards
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8
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What are the bonds present in tertiary structure?

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  1. Disulfide bonds
  2. Ionic interactions
  3. Hydrogen bonds
  4. Hydrophobic/ hydrophilic interactions (includes Van der Waals)
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9
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Why do we phosphorylate a protein and not use amino acid
substitution?

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It is a reversible process. A Kinase adds a phosphate
and a phosphatase removes a phosphate.

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10
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How does post translational Modification affects protein function

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DNA binding, translocation, change in conformation, change in stability

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11
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What are histone
chaperones?

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They are proteins that help guide histones as
they assemble to the DNA to form nucleosomes in
chromatin

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12
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What are some heat
shock proteins?

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They use energy to prevent aggregation of mis-folded
proteins that help guide them to their ultimate
structures

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13
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what characteristics can influence equilibrium?

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  • concentration
  • temperature
  • pH
  • pressure
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14
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why do cellular processes use end-product regulation?

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  • to avoid overproduction of the product
  • to avoid wasting energy to produce a product when it is no longer needed
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15
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rnx coupling

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  • improves the energetics of the reaction
  • delta G values get added to become more favorable
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16
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Anabolism vs Catabolism

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  • anabolism -> reductive
  • catabolism -> oxidative
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17
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why would a pathway use to different reducing equivalents for anabolism and catabolism?

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  • no futile cycle
  • not building something just to break it down again
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18
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what makes ATP hydrolysis favorable?

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  • charge repulsion
  • immediate ionization of ADP
  • resonance stabilized Pi
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19
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what does the addition of phosphate do to an organic compound?

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  • energizes it
  • acts as an electron donot
  • kinate adds it, phosphatase removes it
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20
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What are the energetics of Pyruvate Kinase?

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  • exergonic, negative delta G
  • PEP + ADP -> Pyruvate + ATP
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21
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Creatine Kinase

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  • Forward → ATP is high
  • Backward - ATP is low
  • If the body is at rest, the reaction proceeds forward
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22
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What do creatine pills do?

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  • allows for a more rapid phosphorylation of ATP
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23
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Would the beginning or end of the ETC have the highest reduction potential?

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  • end
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24
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D-stereoisomers

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  • glycine & cysteine
  • both have R conformation instead of S
25
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Psi bond

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alpha carbon to carbonyl carbon

26
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Phi bond

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alpha carbon to nitrogen

27
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Which AAs have high hydropathy index?

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nonpolar AAs

28
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Alpha helices

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  • secondary structure
  • hydrogen bonds stabilize
  • polar outside, nonpolar inside
29
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which AAs are unstable in an alpha helix?

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  • proline, glycine
30
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Collagen alpha helix

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  • G-P-X (glycine, proline, another AA)
  • Proline is more rigid, allowing turns
  • Glycine allows for the tight packing of collagen together
  • stable, strong and flexible structure
  • left handed helix
31
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How does the isomerization of proline lead to the stabilization/ formation of beta turns?

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  • cis confirmation of prolines
  • very rigid molecule
32
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Net Charge

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  • pH<pka -> protonated
  • pH>pka -> deprotonated
33
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examples of post-translation modification

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  • phosphorylation
  • glycosylation
  • acetylation
  • methylation
  • uniquitation
  • these are all reversible
34
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Hemoglobin

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  • R state has a higher affinity for O2
  • low kd
  • high affinity
  • cooperative which is beneficial for transferring oxygen from Hb to the peripheral tissues
  • composed of 2 alpha and beta hemoglobin structures (tetramer of 4 peptides)
35
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Primary protein structure

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sequence of chain of amino acids

36
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Secondary protein structure

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hydrogen bonding of the peptide backbone causes the amino acids to fold into a repeating pattern

37
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tertiary protein structure

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a 3D folding pattern of a protein due to side chain interactions

38
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quaternary protein structure

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protein consisting of more than one amino acid chain
- the interactions of individual tertiary strucctures to form a polypeptide

39
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Hydropathy Index

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  • measures how hydrophobic an amino acid is
  • high hydropathy = hydrophobic
  • F is the most hydropathic AA
40
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why is a peptide bond planar

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has a double bond nature between O-C-N

41
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Collagen helix

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  • hydroxylation of prolines in collagen stabilizes the right-handed triple helix structure
  • proline is forcing a turn and glycine allows this to happen
  • doesnt use hydrogen bonds
42
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examples of fibrous proteins

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  • collagen
  • keratin
43
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examples of globular proteins

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  • flavodoxin
  • myoglobin
44
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why is PTM a better strategy for the cell to use?

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its fast & its reversible

44
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consequences of protein phosphorylation

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  • conformation
  • stability
  • translocation
  • DNA binding
45
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Protein conformations can have consequences

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  • protein dissociation
  • ion transport
  • order ↔ disorder transition
  • allosteric regulation
46
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Ribonuclease

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  • a type of nuclease that catalyzes the degradation of RNA into smaller components.
  • demonstrates that simple proteins can spontaneously refold into their “native state”
47
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what type of mutations would affect protein structures?

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TS mutations (temperarure sensitive mutations)

48
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histone chaperones

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proteins that help guide histones as they assemble onto DNA to form nucleosomes in chromatin

49
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heat-shock proteins

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use energy to help prevent aggregation of misfolded proteins and help guide them to their ultimate structures and/or complexes with other proteins

50
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how many oxygens can hemoglobin bind?

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4

51
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cooperativity

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the binding of one molecule or ligan or substrate increases the affinity of binding for additional molecules at the other sites

52
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sigmoidal curve

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a hybrid curve of an initially low affinity binding curve being converted to a high affinity binding curve

53
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BPG

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the binding of BPG to Hb stabilizes the T state of Hb
- allows more oxygen to achieve the R state)
- changes the conformation of the protein (allosteric effector)

54
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Ras

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  • mutations in Ras can affect its ability to change shape through GTP Hydrolysis and can cause inappropriate activation of cell division
  • Ras GTP (on) -> Ras*GDP (off) mutation that causes it to not stop replicating
55
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PEP

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  • Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) is a high-energy metabolite in the final step of glycolysis. PEP is converted into pyruvate by pyruvate kinase.
56
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The muscle protein myoglobin shows __________________ binding to oxygen

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non-cooperative

57
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The power stroke of muscle contraction occurs when

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myosin releases Pi after ATP hydrolysis

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