Topic 3B: More Exchange and Transport Systems Flashcards
What enzymes break down carbohydrates?
- Amylase
- Membrane-bound disaccharidases
Where are each made and where do they act?
- Amylase - salivary glands, pancreas - mouth, ileum
- Membrane-bound disaccharidases - cell membranes of epithelial cells in ileum
How would starch be digested?
- amylase - starch –> maltose
- maltase (MBD) - maltose –> glucose
What bonds are hydrolysed in carbohydrates?
- glycosidic
What enzymes break down lipids?
- lipases
Where are they made and where do they act?
- made in pancreas
- act in ileum
What other substance helps in digesting lipids?
- bile salts
Where are they made and what do they do?
- liver
- emulsify fats to smaller drops to have a larger SA:V for a larger area for lipases to work on
What are lipids hydrolysed into?
- monoglycerides and fatty acids
What bonds are hydrolysed in lipids?
- ester
What can the products of lipids then form?
- monoglycerides and fatty acids can stick with bile salts to form micelles
What enzymes break down proteins?
- endopeptidases
- exopeptidases
- dipeptidases
What do endopeptidases do?
- hydrolyse peptide bonds within the protein
What are examples of endopeptidases?
Where are they made and where do they act?
- Trypsin, chymotrypsin
- Made in pancreas and secreted into ileum
- Pepsin
- Released into stomach by cells in the stomach lining
- Only works in acidic conditions - HCL in stomach
What so exopeptidases do?
- Hydrolyse peptide bonds at the end of proteins
- Remove single amino acids
What do dipeptidases do?
- Exopeptidases that break up dipeptides
- Hydrolyse the bond on the middle
Where are dipeptidases usually found?
- Cell surface membrane of epithelial cells of ileum
What bonds are hydrolysed in proteins?
- Peptide
How are monosaccharides absorbed?
- Glucose absorbed by active transport with Na+ via cotransporter
- Galactose absorbed the same with same cotransporter
- Fructose uses facilitated diffusion with a different transport protein
How are monoglycerides and fatty acids absorbed?
- Micelles help move them to the epithelium
- Constantly break up and reform - release them to be absorbed
- Easily move across membrane as they are lipid soluble
How are amino acids absorbed?
- Na+ actively transported out of epithelial cells into blood
- Makes conc gradient to ileum
- Na+ diffuse from ileum into epithelial cells through sodium dependent transporter protein
- Bring amino acids with them
What is the structure of haemoglobin?
- Quaternary structure
- 4 polypeptide chains
- Each has a haem group (Fe2+)
How does O2 load to haemoglobin?
- Each haemoglobin molecule can carry 4 O2 molecules
- Loads in lungs to form oxyhaemoglobin
What is partial pressure?
- Measure of concentration of a gas
How does pO2 affect O2 affinity of haemoglobin?
- Higher pO2 = higher affinity = O2 loads on
- Lower pO2 = lower affinity = O2 unloads
Where does O2 load and unload and why?
- Loads in lungs - high pO2
- Unloads at tissues - low pO2
What does a dissociation curve show?
- How saturated the haemoglobin is with O2 at different partial pressures
What does the curve show at low pO2?
- Low affinity
- O2 released rather than loaded
- Low O2 saturation
What does the curve show at high pO2?
- High affinity
- More readily combines than unloads
- High O2 saturation
What is the shape of the dissociation curve and why?
- S shaped
- When first O2 molecule joins - shape changes to make it easier for others to load
- As it gets more saturated - harder again to join
- Steep bit in the middle - was easy to load
- Shallow at each end - harder to load