Nucleotide Metabolism Flashcards
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Purine bases
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- Adenine
- Guanine
- Hypoxanthine
- Xanthine
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Pyrimidine bases
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- Uracil
- Cytosine
- Thymine
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PRPP Synthesis
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- From ribose-5-phosphate and ATP
- Catalyzed by PRPP Synthetase
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Sources of ribose-5-phosphate
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- Glucose metab, pentose phosphate shunt
- Nucleoside degradation creates R1P which can be converted
5
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PRPP is required for:
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- Purine and pyrimidine nucleotide de novo synthesis
- Salvage pathways for purine nucleotides
- Biosynthesis of NAD and FAD
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Synthesis of purine nucleotides
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- Purine ring built on PRPP
- Precursors are glutamine, glycine, CO2, aspartate, and two 1 carbon fragments from one-carbon folate pool (THF)
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Sulfonamides
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- Block the biosynthesis of folate by bacteria
- Blocks two steps in the production of IMP that require folate
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Components of IMP nucleotide ring
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-Glutamine, glycine, CO2, aspartate, two one carbon fragments from the one-carbon folate pool
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Azaserine
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- Analog of glutamine that blocks amide transfer from glutamine
- Interferes with two steps in IMP production that require glutamine transfer reactions
10
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Energy cost of making IMP
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-Six high energy phosphate bonds
11
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Formation of AMP from IMP
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- Adenylosuccinate formed by addition of aspartate to IMP
- Fumarate cleaved to yield AMP
- GTP cleaved in the process
12
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Formation of GMP from IMP
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- XMP formed by oxidation of IMP
- Amino group from glutamine added to form GMP
- ATP cleaved in the process
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HGPRT
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- Catalyzes formation of NTs from hypoxanthine or guanine (forms IMP and GMP respectively)
- Salvage pathway
- Uses PRPP
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APRT
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- Catalyzes formation of AMP from adenosine
- Salvage pathway
- Uses PRPP
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Nucleoside kinase
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- Salvage pathway only for adenosine
- Forms AMP and ADP using ATP
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Synthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides
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- NOT built on PRPP. Synthesized first and then reacts with PRPP to form nucleotide
- Precursors are carbamoylphosphate and aspartate
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Formation of carbamoylphosphate in the production of UMP
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-Carbamoylphosphate synthesized in the cytosol from glutamine and CO2. Also synthesized in liver as an intermediate in urea synthesis (takes place in mitochondria with a different enzyme).
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Orotic aciduria
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- Genetic disorder of pyrimidine biosythnesis (the first enzyme)
- Orotic acid accumulates in blood and excreted in urine.
- Alleviated by feeding of uridine or cytidine: supplies the body with needed pyrimidine
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Pyrimidine synthesis
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- Conversion of UMP to UTP Two steps
1. UMP Kinase
2. Nucleoside diphosphate kinase - Amino group from glutamine then donated to UTP to form CTP (activated by GTP)
20
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Uracil salvage pathway
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- Uracil converted to UMP by two sequential reactions
1. Uridine phosphorylase: Uracil + Ribose-1-phospate –> Uridine + Pi
2. Uridine kinase: Uridine + ATP –> UMP + ADP
21
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Cytidine salvage pathway
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-Can also be phosphorylated by uridine kinase
22
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Enzymes inhibited by azaserine
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- Any that use glutamine as an amino donor
- CPSII
- CTP synthase
- FGAR aminotransferase
- GMP synthase
- PRPP aminotransferase
- Asparagine synthase
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When are deoxyribonucleotides sythesized?
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-When cells are actively dividing and in S phase
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Formation of deoxynucleotides
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- Formed from reduction of ribonucleoside diphosphates (ONLY)
- Reduction catalyzed by ribonucleotide reductase
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Products of ribonucleotide reductase
-dCDP, dADP, dGDP, dUDP
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Fate of dUDP
- Not incorporated into DNA so dephosphorylated to dUMP state
- dTMP formed from dUMP via thymidylate synthase
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Thymidylate synthase reaction
- Forms dTMP from dUMP
| - Methylene group from N5N10 methylenetetrahydrofolate transferred and reduced to a methyl group
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Regeneration of THF
- Via dihydrofolate reductase
- Requires NADPH
- Only made by cells in S phase
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5-Fluorouracil
- Anticancer agent
- Converts to F-UMP in cells
- Converted to F-dUMP which is the critical form!
- F-dUMP interacts with thymidylate synthase and N5N10 methylenetetrahydrofolate
- Transfer of a methylene group to pyrimidine ring is blocked by fluorine so thymidylate synthase is trapped and can't synthesize dTMP
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Methotrexate
- Anticancer agent
- Analog of folic acid
- Inhibits dihydrofolate reductase
- Regeneration of THF is blocked and synthesis of dTMP is inhibited
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Salvage pathway for synthesis of thymine deoxyribonucleotides
- Thymine phosphorylase converts thymine to thymidine
| - Thymidine kinase converts thymidine to dTMP
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Nucleotide degradation via dephosphorylation
- Nucleotidases remove 5' phosphates from ribo and deoxyribo nucleotides converting them to nucleosides
- AMP deaminated to IMP and then hydrolyzed to inosine or hydrolyzed to adenosine and then deaminated to inosine
- GMP hydrolyzed to guanosine
- CMP deaminated to UMP then hydrolyzed to uridine or hydrolyzed to cytidine then deaminated to uridine
- UMP hydrolyzed to uridine
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Nucleotide degradation via phosphorolysis
- Nucleoside phosphorylases
- A bond is cleaved by adding Pi
- Form free base and R1P or dR1P
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Purine degradation
- Final product is uric acid
- Hypoxanthine oxidized to xanthine by xanthine oxidase
- Guanine deaminated to xanthine
- Xanthine oxidized to uric acid by xanthine oxidase--O2 required and superoxide formed
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Components of purine degradation
- Dephosphorylation
- Deamination
- Separation of base from ribose
- Oxidation to uric acid
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Degradation of pyrimidines
- Final produces B-alanine (from uracil) and B-aminoisobutyrate from thymine
- Undergo same components as purine degradation
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Cause of gout
- Precipitation of sodium urate crystals in joints and kidneys
- PRPP synthetase may be too active
- Partial deficiency of HGPRT leads to increased PRPP which leads to increased purine synthesis
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Treatment of gout
- Allopurinol
- Blocks production of uric acid
- Oxidized by xanthine oxidase to oxypurinol which binds tightly to xanthine oxidase inhibiting its function
- Colchine may also be used
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Allopurinol in cancer treatment
-Can help deal with the large quantities of nucleotides released from killed cancer cells
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Lesch-nyhan syndrome
- Hereditary X linked recessive condition
- Severe or complete deficiency of HGPRT
- Increased synthesis of purines
- Hyperuricemia, gout, neurological symptoms (not sure why)
- Allopurinol won't relieve neurological symptoms
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ADA deficiency (SCID)
- Adenosine deaminase deficiency
- deoxyadenosine and adenosine are abundant because cannot be degraded to inosine and deoxyinosine
- Inhibits ribonucleotide reductase which inhibits DNA synthesis
- White blood cells cannot proliferate
