Nutrient digestion & absorption Flashcards
What are the principle dietary constituents?
Carbohydrates Protein Fat Vitamins Minerals Water
Monosaccharides:
- Give examples of hexose sugars.
- Where are they absorbed?
- Glucose, galactose, fructose
2. Small intestine.
Disaccharides:
- What links 2 monosaccharides together?
- What breaks them down?
- Function of lactase?
- Function of sucrase?
- Function of maltase?
- Glycosidic bond
- brush border enzymes in small intestine to monomers.
- Lactose = glucose & galactose.
- Sucrose = glucose & fructose
- Maltose = glucose & glucose
Give examples of polysaccharides.
starch
cellulose
glycogen
What is starch and name 2 forms of it?
Plant storage form of glucose. a-amylose: glucose linked in straight chains. Amylopectin: glucose chains highly branched.
- What is cellulose?
2. How is it digested?
- Constituent of plant cell walls. Unbranched, linear chains of glucose linked by b-1,4 glycosidic bonds.
- Dietary fibre - not digested in vertebrates. Bacteria does it using cellulase.
What is glycogen?
Animal storage form of glucose. Glucose linked by a-1,4 glycosidic bonds.
Which enzymes hydrolyses glucose monomers linked by a-1,4 glycosidic bonds found in starch and glycogen? Does it digest cellulose as well?
Amylases (saliva, pancreas): breaks down polymer to disaccharides. a-amylase can break a-1,4 bonds but not b-1, 4 bonds found in cellulose.
List ways molecules can enter/leave a cell.
- Transcellular
- Paracellular (around the cell - through gap junctions?)
- Vectorial (unidirectional) transport.
How does glucose enter the cell?
Movement of Na out into blood & K into cell by Na/K ATPase (primary active transporter: uses ATP) sets up an electrochemically gradient. Glucose & Na are transported down that gradient from lumen to cell by a symporter (has binding site for both Na & glucose) SGLT1 (secondary active transporter: doesn’t use ATP directly). GLUT-2 transports glucose from cell to blood (facilitated diffusion). Na transported to blood via ATPase. overall movement of Na from lumen to blood creates osmotic gradient which H2O follows to get from lumen to blood.
- T/F: fructose is transported into cell from lumen by GLUT-5.
- T/F: Water is also transported with fructose.
- True. SGLT1 transports glucose & galactose.
2. False. No Na is moved across so no water absorption.
- What are proteins?
- Give examples of post-transitional modification of proteins.
- What is a peptide
- Polymers of AAs linked by peptide bonds.
- Addition of CHO = glycoprotein; lipid = lipoprotein.
- small proteins, 3-10 AAs long.
- What are peptide bond hydrolysing enzymes called?
2. What are the 2 classes of enzymes?
- Proteases: digest proteins. Peptidases: digest peptides.
- Endopeptidases (breaks down interior of proteins to give 2 peptides).
Exopeptidases (work only on terminal branches to make single AAs & a peptide): aminopeptidase work on NH2 end, carboxypeptidases work on COOH end.
How are AAs transported from lumen to blood?
Similar to glucose (Na dependent transport). SAAT1 (Na, AA transporter) transports both Na & AA from lumen to cell. ATPase transports Na to blood. Another transporter takes AA from cell to blood. Water also transported as Na moves from lumen to blood as well.
What other ways protein is transported from lumen to blood?
PepT1 (proton dependent transporter) moves H & dipeptide into cell from lumen. H transported back to lumen by NHE3 (Na H exchanger) which creates acidic microclimate (proton layer by apical membrane) & Na transported into cell. Na then uses Na/K ATPase to get from cell to blood. Unknown transporter takes dipeptides from cell to blood. 70% of protein transfer via this system.