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What are the 3 types of horizontal gene transfer
transduction- viral integration
transformation- integration of dead DNA
conjugation- bacteria to bacteria
what is a serological variant or serovar?
a serovar is a group of closely related microbes that share a common set of antigens
what are regulatory proteins
special proteins that bind to specific regulatory sequences of DNA and act to switch genes on and off and thereby regulate the transcription of genes.
how to determine whether DNA is right handed or left handed
if DNA has both strands moving clockwise then it is right handed both strands moving counter clockwise then it is left handed
what is the common name for DNA b
DNA helicase
DnaC what is the common name?
helicase loader protein that guides helicase into place
what are the three plasmid genes used in segregation
pare, parM, and parR. The pare DNA sequence
is analogous to the centromere of eukaryotic chromosomes. The DNA-binding protein ParR binds to the paresequence and forms a ParR-pare plasmid complex. ParM protein is an actin-like molecule that forms long filaments as it hydrolyzes ATP. The ParM filaments are dynamically unstable, constantly elongating and shortening. However, each end of a ParM actin-like filament can bind to a ParRpare plasmid. When both ends of a ParM filament contact ParR-pare plasmid complexes, the filament stabilizes and elongates until the two plasm ids hit the opposite poles of the cell. The plasmid is thus dislodged from the filament, and the filament quickly dissociates.
What are restriction endonucleases? Know the 2 types of ends that can be produced
The cut may produce blunt ends or staggered
ends; in staggered ends, the top strand is cut at one
end of the site and the bottom strand cut at the other (Fig.
7.27A). Staggered ends are also called “cohesive ends”
because the protruding strand of one of those ends can
base-pair with complementary protruding strands from
any DNA fragment cut with the same restriction endonuclease, regardless of the source organism.
What is PCR? What do you need for PCR? What are the 3 steps?
In this technique, specific oligonucleotide primers
(usually between 20 and 30 bp) are annealed to known
DNA sequences flanking the target gene. A thermostable
DNA polymerase uses these primers to replicate the target DNA.
What is Sanger DNA Sequencing?
the Sanger dideoxy strategy. Ingenious in its simplicity,
the dideoxy method relies on the fact that the 3’ hydroxyl
group on 2’-deoxyribonucleotides (shown in Fig. 7.4A)
is absolutely required for a DNA chain to grow. Thus,
incorporation of a 2’,3’-dideoxynuc1eotide (Fig. 7.30) into
a growing chain prevents further elongation because without the 3’ OH, extension of the phosphodiester backboneis impossible. ultimately this cleaving results in different lengths of DNA fragments whcih can be tagged and then run through a gel to produce peaks
what is illumina DNA sequencing
This sequencing method is based on reversible dye-terminators that enable the identification of single bases as they are introduced into DNA strands. It is often employed to sequence difficult regions, such as homopolymers and repetitive sequences. It can also be used for whole-genome and region sequencing, transcriptome analysis, metagenomics, small RNA discovery, methylation profiling, and genome-wide protein-nucleic acid interaction analysis
jacard similarity matrix
Jaccard similarity coefficient (originally coined coefficient de communauté by Paul Jaccard), is a statistic used for comparing the similarity and diversity of sample sets. The Jaccard coefficient measures similarity between finite sample sets, and is defined as the size of the intersection divided by the size of the union of the sample sets
RNA polymerase is made up of
core polymerase which contains the essential protein constituents and a sigma factor which is just needed for initiation of RNA synthesis but not elongation
what is the RNA polymerase core function and what are the subunits of the core
the function of the core is to elongate the chain of RNA the subunits contained in the core include two alpha (n) subunits, one beta (P) subunit, and one beta-prime (13’) subunit for every core enzyme
sigma factors do what?
A sigma factor binds RNA polymerase through the alpha subunit and then helps the core enzyme detect a specific DNA sequence, called a promoter, which signals the beginning of a gene.
The
specific sigma factor used to initiate transcription of
a given gene will vary, depending on the gene
