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What is the monomer for proteins?

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Amino acids

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What are the elements that make up proteins?

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Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and sometimes Sulphur

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How many proteins are proteinogenic?

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20

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What are the difference parts of an amino acid?

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  • An R-group
  • An amino group
  • A carboxyl group
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What is the R-group?

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It is a side chain added on to the amino acid

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What is the bond between 2 amino acids?

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It is a peptide bond with the C, O, N and H

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What is the primary structure?

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The sequence of amino acids are joined in a protein chain

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What is the average chain of a primary structure?

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100 amino acids

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What are the bonds in the primary chains?

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Peptide chains

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What is the secondary structure?

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It is the initial folding of singular polypeptide chains

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What is the alpha helix structure?

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The alpha helix is a secondary structure in a helix structure with 36 amino acids and 10 turns of the helix,
It has H bonds
Left hand is anticlockwise and right is clockwise

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What are the bonds holding the secondary structures together?

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Peptide bonds

Hydrogen bonds between the -NH groups and the -CO of another 4 places ahead the chain

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What is the beta pleat structure?

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Some fold slightly in a zig-zag structure, where the chains folds over in itself, forming a sheet like structure
It has H bonds

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What is the tertiary structure?

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This is when the coils and pleats start to fold, along with the areas of straight chains of amino acids.
It has a very specific shapes which are held together by bonds between close amino acids.

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What is the tertiary structures shape?

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Spherical

Supercoiled

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What is the quaternary structure?

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It is multiple polypeptide chains are arranged to make the complete protein molecule.

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What holds a quaternary structure together?

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Peptide bonds
Hydrogen bonds
Ionic bonds
Disulphide links
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions
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What holds a tertiary structure together?

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Peptide bonds
Hydrogen bonds
Ionic bonds
Disulphide links
Hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions
19
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Where are the hydrogen bonds?

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They are between an amino group and carboxyl group or between polar areas of the R- groups

20
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Where are the ionic bonds?

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Form between the carboxyl and amino groups that are part of R-groups. These ionise into NH3+ and COO- groups. The positive and negative ions cause the ionic bonds

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Where are the disulphide links?

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In between the R-groups of the amino acids cysteine contains sulphur, disulphide bridges are formed between the R-groups of 2 cysteine to make strong covalent bonds.

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Where are the hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions and why do they happen?

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They happen when the R-groups are hydrophilic or hydrophobic.
If the R-group is hydrophilic it will mean it will be near the water
If the R-group is hydrophobic it will mean it will be away from the water

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What are the features of globular proteins?

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Compact
Roughly spherical
It is soluble

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How is a globular protein formed?

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It is when the proteins fold so hydrophilic R-groups are away from the water and the hydrophobic R-groups are close to the water

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What is a globular proteins used for?
Used in chemical reactions Immunity Muscle contractions
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What is insulin?
- It is a globular protein - It is a hormone that regulates glucose concentration in the blood - It has a secondary structure of helixes and is folded into a tertiary structure - It is water soluble - It has a specific shape for its function
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What is the structure of haemoglobin?
- It is a globular protein - It has 4 subunits that are wrapped in a haem group. - Each haem group has an iron inside it - It has 2 alpha and 2 beta subunits - It is a conjugated protein
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What is myoglobin?
-It is a globular protein
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What is pepsin?
- It is a globular protein - It is an enzyme to break down proteins in the stomach - It is a symmetrical tertiary structure - It has mostly acidic amino acids so it is stable in the stomachs acidic conditions - The tertiary structure is held together by hydrogen bonds and 2 disulphide bridges
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What is catalase?
- It is a globular protein - It is in a quaternary protein shape - It as 4 haemprosthetic groups - It contains Iron in the prosthetic groups - It breaks down H2O2 which is a toxic byproduct of metabolism, so the catalase gets rid of it
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How is a fibrous protein formed?
- It is a long insoluble chain because of the many hydrophobic R-groups in the primary structure - It has a limited range of amino acids with small R-groups - They make long strong molecules that aren't folded into complex structures - It is strong, tough and fibrous
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What is a fibrous proteins used for?
It has mostly structural uses
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Where is collagen found?
- Used in connective tissue - Found in skin, tendon and ligaments - Made up of 3 polypeptides wound in a long and strong rope-like structure - It is flexible
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What is keratin?
- Found in hair, nails, skin - Large portion of sulphur-containing amino acids, so there are many disulphide bonds - The disulphide bonds make the material strong an inflexible - The more rigid the structure the more disulphide bonds there are
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where is elastin used
-In the walls of blood vessels and in the alveoli of the lungs -It gives the vessels and alveoli flexibility to expand and retract It is a quaternary protein mede from stretchy molecules and tropoelastin
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What is the structure of collagen?
- peptide bonds , between amino acids / in polypeptide - every 3rd amino acids is , same / glycine - coil / twist / spiral / helix - left-handed (helix) - glycine / small R group , allows closeness / twisting (of polypeptide chains) - three polypeptide chains - hydrogen / H , bonds between (polypeptide) chains - no / few, hydrophilic (R) groups on outside (of molecule) - (adjacent molecules joined by) crosslinks - crosslinks / ends of molecules , being staggered - fibril
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What is the structure of haemoglobin?
-globular -hydrophobic (R) groups on inside / hydrophilic (R) groups on outside -4 , chains / sub-units / polypeptides -idea that subunits are (two) different types -α / alpha , helix idea that proportion of glycine similar to that, of other amino acids / in other proteins
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What does the iron do in a haemoglobin?
haem group reversibly binds with oxygen
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What is a chain of amino acids called?
Polypeptide chain
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How many oxygen atoms can 1 haemoglobin bind to?
4 oxygen atoms in each haemoglobin

Biology 2 (31 decks)

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