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1
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What is Genomics?

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The study of all of an organisms genes (the genome)

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What is Epigenomics?

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The study of the reversible chemical modifications to DNA

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What is Transcriptomics?

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The study of the complete set of RNA transcripts from DNA

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What are the TWO dominant classes of measurement technologies for the transciptome?

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Microarrays & RNA Sequencing

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What is Proteomics?

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The study of a set of proteins produced in an organism

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What is Metabolomics?

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The study of small molecules (metabolites) within cells

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What are the major techniques used in Metabolomics?

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NMR & Mass Spectroscopy

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What is Translatomics?

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The study of all mRNAs being actively translated in a cell

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9
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Who solved the 3D structure of DNA?

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Watson & Crick
(1953)

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Who won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the structure of Insulin?

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Frederick Sanger
(1958)

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What enzymes are able to cut RNA chains at specific sites?

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RNase enzymes

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What was the limitation in the early efforts of nucleic acid sequencing?

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Only able to measure nucleotide composition, and not order

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What was the first whole nucleic acid sequence produced by Robert Holley in 1956?

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Alanine tRNA from Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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What was Walter Fiers’ laboratory able to produce in 1972?

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First complete protein-coding gene

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What technique was developed in 1977 that altered the progress of DNA sequencing technology?

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Sanger’s ‘Chain-Termination’

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What are the TWO techniques used in First-Generation DNA Sequencing?

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  1. Sanger sequencing
  2. Maxam-Gilbert sequencing
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Who won the 1980 Nobel Prize for their work into nucleic acids?

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Berg, Gilbert, & Sanger

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18
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What was radiolabelling in Sanger sequencing replaced with?

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Fluorometric based detection

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19
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How was detection in Sanger sequencing improved?

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Through capillary based electrophoresis

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What did the improvements in Sanger sequencing lead to?

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Automated DNA sequencing machines

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What is ‘Shotgun Sequencing’?

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Where overlapping DNA fragments are cloned and sequenced separately, and then assembled into one long contiguous sequence

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What automated DNA sequencing technique did Kary Mullis develop?

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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
1983

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What are TWO improvments in automated DNA sequencing?

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  1. Identification of new polymerases
  2. Increasingly modified dNTPs
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What project used the newer dideoxy sequencers?

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Human Genome Project
(1990-2003)

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What techique was developed by Pal Nyren in 1993?

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Pyrosequencing

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How does Pyrosequencing work?

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Relies on light detection based on a chain reaction when Pyrophosphate is released

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What THREE enzymes are used in Pyrosequencing?

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  1. DNA polymerase
  2. ATP sulfurylase
  3. Firefly luciferase
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What additional enzyme was introduced into Pyrosequencing to remove nucleotides that are not incorporated by the DNA polymerase?

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Apyrase

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What is a major difficulty with Pyrosequencing?

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Finding out how many of the same nucleotide there are in a row at a given position

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What biotechnology company was Pyrosequencing licensed to?

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454 Life Sciences

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What did the sequencing machines produced by 454 allow?

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The mass parallelisation of sequencing reactions

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32
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What process is used in Illumina sequencing?

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Bridge amplification

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33
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How is sequencing achieved in Illumina sequencing?

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Using fluorescent ‘reversible-teminator’ dNTPs

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What are TWO Third-Generation DNA sequencing techniques?

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  1. PacBio sequencing
  2. Nanopore sequencing
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What is PacBio sequencing?

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Widely used third-generation technology providing a single molecule real time (SMRT) platform

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Where does DNA polymerisation occur in PacBio sequencing?

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In arrays of microfabricated nanostructures called zero-mode waveguides (ZMWs) which are essentially tiny holes in a metallic film covering a chip

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What was α-Hemolysin, a membrane channel protein from Staphylococcus aureus the first nanopore to show?

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Detect recognisable ionic current blockades by both RNA and DNA homopolymers

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What does Nanopore sequencing allow?

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Enables direct, real-time analysis of long DNA or RNA fragments

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How does Nanapore sequencing work?

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Monitoring changes to an electrical current as nucleic acids are passed through a protein nanopore

40
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What is RNA sequencing used for?

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The analysis of differential gene expression (DGE)

41
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What are the core steps of RNA sequencing?

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  1. RNA extraction
  2. cDNA synthesis
  3. Adapter ligation
  4. PCR amplification
  5. Sequencing and Analysis
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What are some imperfections and biases associated with RNA sequencing sample preparation and computational analysis?

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  • Correctly identifying and quantifying which of multiple isoforms are expressed from a gene
  • Differences in how ambiguous or multi-mapped reads are handled
43
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What percentage of transcripts in the human transcriptome are over 2,500 bp long?

44
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What are the THREE main sequencing technologies for RNA sequencing?

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  1. The Illumina workflow
  2. The Pacific Biosciences workflow
  3. The Oxford Nanopore workflow
45
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What is Cap analysis of gene expression (CAGE-seq)?

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An approach to identify and monitor the activity transcription start sites (TSSs) at single base-pair resolution across the genome

46
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What is Cap Trapping?

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A technique based on the biotinylation of the 7-methylguanosine cap of Pol II transcripts

47
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What are the PROS of Cap Trapping?

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  • Measures RNA expression levels and maps TSS in promoter regions
  • Provides precise mapping of TSS with single-nucleotide resolution
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What are the CONS of Cap Trapping?

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  • Only works on total mature DNA
  • Detection is biased toward TSS of long-lived transcripts
49
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What are some example of genome-editing tools?

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  • Zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs)
  • Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs)
50
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What was discovered by Ishino in 1987?

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An unusual pattern of nucleotide repeats and spacers 3’ of the iap gene in E. coli

51
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What is CRISPR-Cas?

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A system in an adaptive immune mechanism which defends against specific types of phages

52
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What does CRISPR stand for?

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

53
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What structure do most CRISPR fold into?

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Stem-Loop or Hairpin once they are transcribed into RNA

54
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Does Cas-9 have palindromic repeats?

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No.
Cas-9s crRNA base-pairs with a second piece of RNA called the tracRNA

55
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What are Spacers in CRISPR?

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Small segments of phage DNA and get passed down through generations of bacteria

56
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What are the THREE basic steps of the CRISPR-Cas defence system?

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  1. Spacer aquisition
  2. CRISPR RNA biogenesis
  3. Interference
57
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How do CRISPR systems avoid harmful destruction of the bacterium’s own genome?

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By relying on short DNA sequences called Protospacer Adjacent Motifs or PAMs

58
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Where are PAMs found?

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Next to CRISPR targets in phage DNA but never in bacterial CRISPR arrays

59
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Which PAM does the Cas-9 protein from Streptococcus pyrogenes recognise?

60
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What are some Cas proteins?

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  • Helicases
  • Nucleases
  • Polymerases
61
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What are Adaptive modules?

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Cas proteins participating in the acquisition of immunity
e.g. Cas1 and Cas2

62
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What are Effector modules?

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Cas proteins involved in the destruction of mobile genetic elements through their recognition and cleavage
e.g. Cas9

63
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Who won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for their work on CRISPR gene editing?

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Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer Doudna

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What is the role of CRISPR RNA (crRNA)?

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Dictates what site Cas9 will cut

65
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What is the role of a Trans-Activating CRISPR RNA (tracrRNA)?

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Attaches to the crRNA and acts as a handle for Cas9

66
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What molecule is formed when crRNA and tracrRNA are combined?

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Single-Guide RNA (sgRNA)

67
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What are the steps of DNA target binding and cleavage by Cas9?

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  1. PAM recognition
  2. Base-pairing
  3. Complete binding
  4. DNA target cleavage
68
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What is the process called for stitching two broken ends of DNA back together?

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Non-Homologous Ending Joining
(NHEJ)

69
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What happens in a pooled CRISPR screen?

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CRISPR proteins plus a pooled library of guide RNAs (gRNAs) are added to a large batch of cells to test thousands of genetic targets at once.

70
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What happens in Positive Selection in CRISPR screens?

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Cells with selected trait survive

71
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What happens in Negative Selection in CRISPR screens?

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Cells with selected trait die

72
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What is dCas9?

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Catalytically dead Cas9

73
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What is turning gene expression DOWN with CRISPR tools known as?

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CRISPRi

CRISPR interference/inhibition

74
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What is turning gene expression UP with CRISPR tools known as?

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CRISPRa

CRISPR activation

75
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What happens when an organism with a CRISPR gene drive mates with another member of its species?

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The CRISPR components of the gene drive ensures that all of the offspring carry the gene drive on both of their chromosomes

76
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What are some examples of RNA therapeutics?

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  • Antisense Oligonucleotides (ASO)
  • Small Interfering RNA (siRNA)
  • Aptamers
  • mRNA Therapeutics
77
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Where do Antisense Oligonucleotides bind?

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Bind to specific sequences in target RNAs via hydrogen-bonding

78
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In 1977, Paterson and colleagues were the first to publish research showing what?

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Gene expression can be modified with exogenous nucleic acids

79
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How did Zamecnik and Stephenson improved the activity of the oligonucleotide?

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By introducing chemical modifications at the 3’ and 5’ ends, which reduced its degradation by cellular nucleases

80
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What did Donis-Keller describe in 1979?

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RNase H cleaves the RNA strand in RNA-DNA heteroduplexes

81
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What is the most common modification in Antisense Olginucleotides (ASO)?

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Phosphorothioate (PS)

82
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What are the TWO mechanisms of gene expression modulation for Antisense Oligonucleotides (ASO)?

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  1. Altering pre-mRNA splicing
  2. Effects on mRNA translation
83
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What is Viltolarsen?

A

A phosphorodiamidate morpholino antisense oligonucleotide for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

84
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What is a Dicer?

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Cleaves long dsRNA into short double-stranded fragments of approx. 21 to 23 nucleotide siRNAs

85
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What is Argonaute (Ago)?

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A nuclease that binds siRNA and cuts the target RNA substrate

86
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What is RISC?

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RNA Induced Silencing Complex

87
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Who won 2006 Nobel Prize for their discovery of RNA interference?

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Fire & Mello

88
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What are the applications and advantages of mRNA therapeutics?

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  • Protein replacement therapies
  • Ideal for vaccines
  • mRNA-based monoclonal antibodies
  • CRISPR gene editing without genome integration
89
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What are the challenges of mRNA therapeutics?

A
  • Delivery
  • Stability
  • Short duration of protein expression
  • Immunogenicity
90
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How can Cardiac Ischemia be treated with protein replacement therapy?

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Using Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)

91
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What enzyme does self-amplifying mRNA express?

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RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP)

92
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How do Aptamers bind to their target?

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By virtue of the tertiary structure of the aptamer, rather than its sequence

93
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What therapeutic are Aptamers potential to replace?

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Monoclonal antibodies

94
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What therapeutic are Aptamers potential to replace?

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Monoclonal antibodies

95
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What are the clinical challenges of using Aptamers as a therapeutic?

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  • Highly sensitive to nucleases
  • Readily excreted by the kidneys
96
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What is the function of Pegaptanib?

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It inhibits the binding of VEGF to its receptors

97
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The gene for what receptor is inserted into T cells in CAR-T cell therapy?

A

Chimeric Antigen Receptor
(CAR)

BT2001: Biotechnology (10 decks)

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