Topic 4 Flashcards
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Phosphorylation, Acetylation
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- alters stability/ signalling
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Glycosylation
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- affects protein folding
- secreation
- solubility
- binding to other biomolecules
3
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Myristolyation, farnesylation
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- alters location
4
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Lipoproteins
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- binds lipids
5
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Metalloproteins
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- bend metal ions
6
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Hemoproteins
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- have an attached heme group
7
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Examples of Covalent Modifications of Proteins
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- can change protein funtion
1. linking a fatty acid to the side chain of a cys
2. adding a sugar to the side chain of an asn
3. adding a phosphoryl group to a ser side chain
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Protein-ligand Binding
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- assume binding is reversible
- proteins contain sites which ligans specifically bind and form a “complex” with a protein
- binding occurs by multiple weak + a few strong forces (leads to specificity)
9
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Dissociation Constants
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- high affinity = tight binding = small Kd
10
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Myoglobin
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- consits of 8 alpha helices plus 1 heme prosthetic group
- oxygen-binding protein
- facilitates oxygen diffusion through tissues
(transports O via the Fe in heme)
11
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Hemoglobin
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- complicated with 4 subunits ( 2 aplha, 2 beta)
- each subunit has a heme group
- similar to myoglobin in their secondary/ tertiary structure
12
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2 States of Hemoglobin
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- Deoxy
- Oxy
13
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Deoxy State
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- t state (tense)
- low affinity
- cannot find oxygen very well
14
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Oxy State
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- r state (relaxed)
- high affinity
15
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Structure Proteins Collagen
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- most abundant protein in animals
- form strong/insoluable fibers in extracellular matrix
- connects + strengthens tiessues
- 28 members in the collagen protein family
- have characteristic triple-helical structure
- job: give support to animals/ strengthen bones
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Characteristics of Collagen’s Primary Structure
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- every 3rd residue is glycine
- lots of proline/ hydroxyproline
- some proline residues are hydroxylated after the protein has been synthesized
- consists of repeating triplets (Gly- Pro- Hyp)
- contain Lys residues that are chemically modified after protein synthesis
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Hydroxyproline
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- modified form of proline
- requires enzymes to add hydroxyl group to promine
18
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Proline Hydroxylation
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- a type of post-translational modification
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Collagen Properties
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- thin (1.5 nm)
- long (300nm)
- very strong molecule
- hydrophobic/ insoluable (due to many exposed hydrophobic side chains)
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Collagen Forms a Triple Helix
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- repeating Gly-Pro-hyp triplets form a stable left-handed helical structure
- 3 collagen polypeptides wind around eachother to form a right handed triple helical structure
- N-H group of glycine forms an H-bond with the C– O group of a residue on a neighbouring chain
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Collagen Synthesis and Assembly
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- pro-collgen secreted from cell (propeptides don’t form triple helical structures)
- pro-peptides removed before fabril assembly (pro-peptidase enzymes oresent outside cells)
- collagen molecules are covalently cross-linked in the fibril
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Collagen Synthesis
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- glycosylation facilitates extracellular soluability as well as water absorption
23
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Hydroxylysine
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- OH groups serve as sites of sugar addition
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Cross- Linking
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- between chemically modified lysine residues in collagen
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Collagen Related Disease
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- Scurvy
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
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Scurvy
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- vitamin c deficient
- lact of vitamin c (ascorbate acid) in diet
- vit c is needed for enzyme that hydroxylates proline
- non-hydroxylated prolines = unstable collagen
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta
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- “bad bone”
- some due to the replacement of glycine by other amino acids
- prevent proper assembly of triple helix
- leads to lack of collagen
- bone fragility and deformation
