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What are the major differences between DNA and RNA?

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DNA–deoxyribose sugar, thymine

RNA-ribose sugar, uracil

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what does dNMPs stand for?

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Deoxynucleoside monophosphates

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What are they four different DNA bases?

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dAMP-deoxyadenosine
dGMP-deoxyguanosine
dCMP-deoxycytidine
dTMP-deoxythymidine

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How do nucleotides link together?

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  1. Base attaches to 1’ C of sugar by a glycosidic bond

2. Adjacent nucleotides connect by phosphodiester linkages formed between3’ and 5’ hydroxyls of pentose sugar

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How does hydrogen bonding occur within the DNA double helix?

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Purines hydrogen bond with pyrimidines

A with T and C with G

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What does it mean that the two strands of DNA are antiparallel?

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5’ end of one strand bonds with 3’ end of its complement strand

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Where do the nitrogenous bases point? Why?

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Inside the helix because they are hydrophobic

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Where do the sugar phosphate backbones point?

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Outside because they are hydrophilic

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Explain the differences between A, B, and Z DNA

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B DNA–predominates–double helix
A DNA–right handed hell that is shorter and wider (RNA structure)
Z DNA–left handed helix that’s longer and narrower

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What is the function of a histone?

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To help package DNA

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Describe the structure of a histone

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made of basic (arg and lys) amino acids

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What does semiconservative replication mean?

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the old strand serves as a template for the new strand for every round of replication

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Why is DNA not conservative?

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two entirely new strands were not made in the same round of replication

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Describe the role of DNA polymerase

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Carries out DNA synthesis and proof reads

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what is the function of a sliding clamp

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prevents DNA polymerase from falling off the template so that synthesis can happen more quickly

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What is the function of helicase

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to separate the double stranded DNA

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What is the function of single stranded binding protein (ssBP)

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prevents the DNA from reannealing once helicase has separated it

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Once separated, superhelical stress occurs. What helps relieve this stress?

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topoisomerases relieve stress ahead of the replication fork by cutting a strand and allowing it to unwind a little and reseal

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Which way does DNA polymerase synthesize DNA

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5’ to 3’

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what is a primer?

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short sequence of RNA already complementary to strand that will serve as a template

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How does DNA polymerase begin

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Recognizes primer and attacks 3’ hydroxyl

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How does the final strand remove the RNA primer?

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it is removed by the 5’ to 3’ exonuclease activity of DNA polymerase I

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What are the gaps called on the lagging strand of DNA?

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Okazaki fragments

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What fills in the okazaki fragment gaps and removes the RNA primer?

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DNA polymerase I

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What is the function of ligase?
It seals the nicks left after DNA polymerase fills in the gaps on the lagging strand
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What is the end replication problem?
Gaps that cannot be filled in at the end
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How is the end replication problem solved?
Telomerase fixes it by extending the 3' end of telomeres
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Describe what telomerase does
an RNA dependent DNA polymerase that adds DNA to 3' ends of chromosomes to avoid loss of genetic material
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How does smoking cause damage to DNA
oxidizes benzopyrene which then reacts with guanine residues forming bulky adducts
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How does UV light cause damage to DNA?
causes formation of pyrimidine dimers which block replication and transcription
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Nucleoside excision repair
acts on lesions causing large distortions like pyrimidine dimers
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Base excision repair
acts on small lesions involving damage to one base
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Mismatch repair pathway
fixes replication errors that escape proofreading
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You always use undamaged strand as a template. This is the original strand. Once replicated, how can you tell which strand is the original?
Methylation of A bases (eventually new strand will have these too via addition by methylase)
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Lynch Syndrome
impairs the mismatch repair pathway
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Xerodermia pigmentosum
impairment of nucleotide excision repair
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RNA polymerase
synthesizes mRNA 5' to 3'
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Promoter
RNA polymerase needs to recognize promoter to begin synthesis
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Actions of RNA polymerase (4)
Search and bind promoters Unwind DNA Initiate polymerization Detect termination signals
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What is the sense strand?
the coding strand
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What is the +1 base?
The first base of the official transcript of mRNA
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What value are points to the left of +1 give?
negative values (they are not transcribed)
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Cis acting elements of promoters
they are on the same molecule of DNA and near the gene they regulate
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Trans-acting elements
any protein that binds to the DNA to facilitate or inhibit binding of RNA polymerase
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operons in prokaryotes
several protein producing genes are linked together and are controlled by a single promoter
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how does RNA polymerase II bind in eukaryotes
proteins bind to TATA box 1. TATA binding protein (TBP) binds 2. Cofactors bind 3. TFIIA and TFIIB interact with TBP 4. TFIIF recruits polymerase 5. TFIIE and TFIIH bind, cleaving ATP and transcription is initiated
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How does RNA polymerase nine in prokaryotes
sigma subunit recognizes promoter region--it will dissociate after initiation
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How does termination of transcription occur?
RNA polymerase reaches terminal sequence with UUUU sequence following a hairpin
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What is Rho proteins involvement in transcription?
It travels along mRNA, catches the polymerase and terminates transcription
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Drug Rifampin
blocks initiation of transcription by blocking exit channel for RNA
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What is the differences between cistronic and polycistronic DNA
Cistronic--only one gene from transcript | Poly--multiple genes from a transcript
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Describe the functions of the three RNA polymerases in eukaryotes
I--makes rRNA II--makes mRNA III--makes tRNA
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List some of the promoters in eukaryotes
TATA box TFIIB recognition element Downstream promoter (DPE) Motif ten element (MTE)
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What is the purpose of a guanine cap?
It seals the 5' end of the primary transcript and decreases rate of degradation Also serves as a site for ribosomal binding for translation
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How it the 5' cap made?
Terminal triphosphate loses phosphate--diphosphate Diphosphate attacks alpha phosphate of dGMP Methyl group transferred to guanine ring
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What is the purpose of the poly A tail
added to the 3' end and serves as a protein binding site that protects from degradation
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How is the poly A tail made?
Polyadensylation signal after stop codon Enzyme binds signal and cleaves transcript about 10 nucleotides downstream PolyA polymerase adds nucleotides
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Exons
Contain coding region of RNA
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Introns
Contain regions that do not code for proteins and must be spliced out
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Spliceosome
ensure that eons are spliced together with great accuracy
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How is protein synthesized? (From what end to what end)
Amino terminus to carboxy terminus
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Codons
3 base pairs read together--gives amino acid
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Degenerative code
almost all amino acids have more than one codon
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Unambiguous
each codon only specifies one amino acid
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Wobble position
Accurate base pairing is required only in the first 2 positions of an mRNA codon. the third position can wobble--still code for same amino acid
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Point mutation
single base pair change
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silent mutation
change that specifies for the same amino acid
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missense
change that specifies a different amino acid
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nonsense
change that leads to a stop codon
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Insertion/deletion
add or delete a base which causes an entire frameshift
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Amino-acyl tRNA
binds to mRNA using anitcodon--corresponding amino acid is attached at the 3' end
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Aminoacyl-transferase
attaches the amino acid to the tRNA via an ester bond
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Initiation of Translation
Initiated by GTP hydrolysis; initiation factors (eIFs) help assemble 40S with initiator tRNA and are released when the mRNA and 60S assemble with complex
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Elongation
1. Amino-acyl tRNA binds A site 2. rRNA catalyzes peptide bond formation, transfers growing peptide to A site 3. Ribosome advances 3 nucleotides towards 3' end of mRNA, moving tRNA to P site
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Termination
Stop codon is recognized by release factor and completed polypeptide is released from ribosome
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What are some molecules that inhibit translation
Ricin--targets large subunit Diptheria toxin--modifies His residue blocking translocation Translation machinery is targeted by antibiotics
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Types of post translational modifications
Trimming--removal of C terminus or N termini pro peptides from zygomens to make mature proteins Phosphorylation, glycosylation, hydroxylation, methylation, acetylation, and ubiquitination
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
Neuromuscular disease characterized by dysfunction and death of motor neurons
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What causes SMA
Mutation in both SMN 1 genes | Mutation C to T in SMN 2 (occurs in exon and is then not spliced correctly)
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What sequence is located at the 5' splice site?
GU
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What sequence is located at the 3' splice site
AG
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How does the spliceosome assemble
1. U1 (5' splice site) and U2 (branch site) bind 2. U4-6 form complex 3. U1 and U4 kicked out and left with catalytic complex
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Exonic splicing enhancers and intronic splicing enhancers
Work by binding proteins that will recruit U1 and U2 and direct splicing
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Exonic splicing silencers and intronic splicing silencers
bind proteins that interfere with identification of splice sites
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Why can't SMN2 substitute for SMN1?
C-T mutation causes incorrect splicing because exon 7 is skipped (mutation in enhancer)
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What do insulator elements do?
Keep it so that one gene does not influence another
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Structure of Histones
tetramer of two dimers with 146 bp of DNA wrapped around
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Heterochromatic
proteins cannot access DNA and therefore the genes cannot be turned on
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Euchromatic
proteins can access the DNA so these genes can be turned on
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What charge do the amino terminal tails of histones have and why?
+ charge because of basic amino acids of lys and arg (interacts well with - charge DNA which causes compacting)
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effects of acetylation of histones
once acetylated, there is no positive charge on histone tail--DNA therefore does not want to compact
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How does acetylation of histones occur
Histone acetyl-transferase--transfers acetate from acetyl Co A to amino group on lysine
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effects of methylation of histones
NONE! don't affect the charge at all!
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Bromo domain
recognized acetylated lysines
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Chromo domain
recognizes methylated histones
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What is the purpose of modifying chromatin?
To create a scaffold to attract different proteins to influence transcription

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