Nucleotides/Nucleic Acids Flashcards
What is the energy requirement for making GMP?
ATP
What is the energy requirement to make AMP?
GTP
What is the body’s preferred way of synthesizing purine nucleotides?
Salvage pathways
What must be available in order for salvage pathways to work?
Hypoxanthine
What effect does hypoxanthine have on amidophosphoribosyl transferase?
Inhibition
What is made when IMP is broken down?
Hypoxanthine
What is made when AMP is broken down?
Adenine
If we have the presence of hypoxanthine, what effect does that have on the committed step of the PRPP pathway?
It is inhibited & the salvage pathway is used
During degradation of purines to uric acid, nucleotides are converted into what?
Nucleosides
During the degradation of purines to uric acid, nucleosides are converted to what?
Free bases
During degradation of purines to uric acid, free bases are converted into what?
Common base (xanthine)
During degradation of purines to uric acid, what is xanthine finally converted into for excretion?
Uric acid
The breakdown of IMP leads to which nucleoside?
Inosine
The breakdown of IMP leads to which free base?
Hypoxanthine
The breakdown of XMP leads to which nucleoside?
Xanthosine
The breakdown of XMP leads to which free base?
Xanthine
The breakdown of GMP leads to which nucleoside?
Guanosine
The breakdown of GMP leads to which free base?
Guanine
The breakdown of AMP leads to which nucleoside?
Adenosine
The breakdown of AMP leads to which free base?
Hypoxanthine
Xanthine becomes uric acid by which enzyme?
Xanthine oxidase
Xanthine becomes uric acid why which type of redox reaction?
Oxidation
What is the final metabolic product of purine catabolism?
Uric acid
What is the condition caused by the accumulation of excess uric acid?
Gout
What is used to treat gout?
Allopurinol