PP (BQ, Genetics,GI, IM, Flashcards
What is the tale limiting enzyme in the TCA cycle?
Isocitrate dehydrogenase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in cholesterol synthesis?
HMG CoA reductase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in pyrimidine synthesis?
CPS- II carbamoyl phosphate synthase II
What is the rate limiting enzyme in Purine synthesis?
Glutamine-PRPP amidotransferase
What are the anabolic and catabolic pathway?
“HUG”
- Heme synthesis
- Urea cycle
- Gluconeogenesis
What is the rate limiting enzyme in Heme synthesis?
Delta ALA synthase
What is the rate limiting enzyme in Urea cycle?
CPS-I carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1
What are the anabolic pathway that store energy?
Cytoplasm "EFGH" - ER - Fatty acid synthesis - Glycolysis - HMP shunt
What are the catabolic pathway that create energy?
Mitochondria "ABC" - AcetylCoA production - Beta-oxidation - Citric acid cycle
What does hydrolase do?
Breaks a bond with water
What is active transport?
Goes against concentration gradient
What does a Dehydrogenase do?
Removes H with a cofactor
What does a Thio do?
Breaks S bonds
What is Potency?
Amount of drug needed to produce effect (lower w/comp antagonist)
What is Von Gierke?
G-6Pase deficiency => hypoglycemia, hepatosplenomegaly
What is the T1/2?
Half life, the time it takes for the body to use half of the drug ingested
What is Cori’s?
Debranching enzyme deficiency => short branches of glycogen
What is Pompes?
Cardiac Alfa 1,4-glucosidase deficiency => DIE early
What is McArdle’s?
Muscle phosphorylase deficiency => muscle cramps with exercise
What is Anderson’s?
Branching enzyme deficiency => long chain of glycogen
What is Fructosemia?
Fructose intolerance (aldolase B deficiency) => liver damage
What does a Galactokinase deficiency cause?
Cataracts
What Galactosemia cause?
Cataracts
MR
Liver damage
What the Citratae shuttle do?
FA transport out of the mitochondria
What is Essential Fructosuria?
Fructokinase deficiency => excrete fructose ( still have hexokinase)
What does the Carnitine shuttle do?
FA transport into the mitochondria
What lysosomal disease have a Gargoyle-face?
Gaucher’s
Hurler’s
What is Tay-Sachs?
Hexosaminidase A deficiency => blindness, incoordination, dementia
What is Sandhoff’s?
Hexosaminidase A/B deficiency ( severe form o Tat-Sachs )
What is Niemann-Pick?
Sphingomyelinase deficiency => zebra bodies
What is Gaucher’s?
Glucocerebrocidase deficiency => wrinkled tissue, MP, bone pain
What is Fabry’s?
Alfa- galactosidase deficiency => corneal clouding, attacks baby’s kidneys, X-linked
What lysosomal disease have a cherry-red macula?
Tay-Sachs
Niemann-Pick
Sandhoff’s
What is Krabbe’s?
Beta-galactosidase deficiency => globoid bodies
What is Metachromatic Leukodystrophy?
Arylsulfatase deficiency => childhood MS
What is hunter’s?
Iduronidase deficiency, milder form
What is Hurler’?
Iduronidase deficiency, worse form
What is Lesch-Nyhan?
HGPRT deficiency => defect of the salvage pathway
Finding: gout, neuropathy, self-mutilation, aggression, retardation, hyperuricemia
X-linked
What do white diaper crystal suggest?
Excess orotic acid
What does biotin donate methyl groups for?
Carboxylation
What does the THF donate methyl groups for?
Nucleotides
What is a transition?
Change 1 purine to another purine
What is de difference b/w Heterrochomatin and Euchromatin?
Heterochromatin => tightly coiled (inactive)
Euchromatin => loos 10nm fibers (active)
What does SAM donate methyl groups for?
All other reactions
Require for:
- conversion of NE to epinephrine
What are the Pyrimidines?
C, U, T
Have a one ring structure
What are the Purines?
Adenine, guanine
Have a two rigs structure
What is a point mutation?
Changes 1 base
What is a silent mutation?
Changes leave the same amino acid
Base change in the 3rd position of codon
What is a transversion?
Change 1 purine to a pyrimidine
What is a frameshift mutation?
Insert or delete 1-2 bases => result in a nonfunctional protein
Change result in misreading
What is a nonsense mutation?
Early stop codon
What does a Southern blot detect?
DNA
What is a missense mutation?
Mistaken amino acid substitution
What does a Western blot detect?
Protein
What are the essential amino acids?
” PVT TIM HALL”
- Phe
- Val
- Trp
- Thr
- Ile
- Met
- His
- Arg
- Leu
- Lys
What are the essential fatty acids?
Linolenic
Linoleic
What are the acid amino acids?
Asp
Glu
What does a Northen blot detect?
RNA
What are the sulfur-containing amino acids?
Cys
Met
What are the O-bond amino acids?
Ser
Thr
Tyt
What are the N-bond amino acids?
Asn
Glen
What are the branched amino acids?
Leu
Ile
Val
What are the aromatic amino acids?
Phe
Try
Trp
What are the basic amino acids?
Lys
Arg
His
What are the ketogenic amino acids?
Lys
Leu
What are the glucogenic + ketogenic amino acids?
” PITT”
- Phe
- Iso
- Thr
- Trp
What are the glucogenic among acids?
All the res
What amino acids does Trypsin cut?
Lys
Arg
What is the smallest amino acid?
Gly
What amino acids does beta-ME cut?
Cys
Met
What amino acids does chymotripsin cut?
Phe
Tyr
Trp
What does Carboxypeptidase cut?
Left of any amino acid on the carboxy terminal
What amino acid turns yellow on Nurhydrin reaction?
Proline
What amino acids does Acid Hydolysis denature?
Asn
Gln
What does CNBr cut?
Right of Met
What does Marcaptoethanol cut?
Right Cys, Met
What does Elastase cut?
Right Gly, Ala, Ser
What does Aminopeptidase cut?
Right of N terminus
What does Trypsin cut?
Arg
Lys
What does Alfa-AT do?
Inhibits Trypsin from getting loose
What does chymotrypsin cut?
Phe
Tyr
Trp
What is Albinism?
No Try -> Malanin (via tyrosinase)
What is Hartnup’s?
No Trp = Niacin + Serotonin
- presents like pellagra
- can mimic corn-rich diet
What is Maple Syrup Urine disease?
Defective metabolism of branched amino acids ( Leu, Iso, Val)
Amino acids leak out
What is homocystinuria?
No Homocysteine -> Cys: " COLA" stone Cystine Ornithine Lysine Arginine
What is pellagra?
Niacin deficiency
- Dermatitis
- Dementia
- Diarrhea
- Death
What is PKU?
No Phe -> Try ( via Phe hydroxylase) Nutrasweet sensitivity MR Pale Blond hair Blue eyes Musty odor
What does B5 do?
Component of CoA and FA synthesis
What causes lateral leg bowing?
Rickets
What are the names of the B vitamins?
B1 - Thiamine B2 - Riboflavin B3 - Niacin B4 - Lipoic acid B5 - Pantotemic acid B6 - Pyridoxine B7 - Biotin B9 - Folate B12 - Cobalamin
What causes anterior leg bowing?
Neonatal syphilis
What does B4 do?
Glycolisis
What does B1do?
Thiamine pyrophosphate ( TPP) coenzyme for: Pyruvate Dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, branched-chain ketoacid dehydrogenase, transketolase
Findings:
Wet and dire beriberi
Wernicke - ataxia, nystagmus ( post temporal lobe)
Korsakoff - confabulation ( mammillary bodies)
What does B2 do?
FAD cofactor
Angular cheloisis
Magenta colored tongue
What does B3 do?
NAD cofactor
What does vit A?
Night vision
CSF production
PTH
What does B6 do?
Transaminase cofactor (AST/ALT) Myelin integrity Deficiency - neuropathy
What dose B9 do?
Nuclear division
Purine synthesis