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Biochemistry
Undergraduate 3
04/26/2014

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Term
Mikhail Tswett first separated colorful plant pigments by what
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chromotography
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Chromatographic methods to separate amino acid mixtures
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ion exchange, and high performance liquid
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can form disulfides and can be easily alkylated
Definition
Cys (SH)
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carboxyl group form
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amides and esters
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Amino groups form
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Schiff bases and amides
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Proteins or peptides can be quantified by rxn with
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Cu++
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Copper based reagents give a what color
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purple color
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the peptide bond is usually found in what conformation
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Trans
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Because of the 40% double bond character of peptide bonds
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the 6 atoms of the peptide group are always planar
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Peptides
Definition
short polymers  of amino acids
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Residue
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each unit of a peptide
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Basic species have
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highest pKa and highest isoelectric point
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Acidic species
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lowest pKas and lowest isoelectric points
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Fibrous Proteins
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structural and normally H20 insoluble (ex collagen)
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Globular Proteins
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are compact H2O soluble and used for transport or metabolism (ex. mycoglobin)
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Membrane proteins
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hydrophobic/ hydrophilic and are used for cell signaling and transport (ex: bacteriorhodopsin)
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secondary structure
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the shape they take based on the individual amino acids attractive / repulsive forces and their steric conformation
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Two shapes secondary structures can take in peptides
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alpha or beta sheets
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Tertiary structures
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3D formation when secondary structures aggregate or fold into more complex structures
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Quaternary structures
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Association of 2 or more polypeptide chains thatalready have their oen tertiary structures
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Quaternary structure are usualy held by
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non-convalent attractions by convalent disulfide bridges
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Denatured
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Loss of its native conformation
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Hemoglobin
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2 alpha and 2 beta subunits, each one with a heme group
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Phi
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angle denotes about the C(alpha) - N bond
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Psi
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Angle denoted about the C(alpha)- C bond
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Alpha helices are stabalized by
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H bonds
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Alpha helices are mostly this but not always
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right handed
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the beta strand may be
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parallel or antiparallel
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monomeric protein
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one polypeptide chain
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Aromatic Amino acids absorb
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UV light
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The sequence of a.acids in a protein
Definition
is encoded by the nucleotide sequence of DNA
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Amino acids in a protein is read
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from the amino terminus to the carboxyl terminus
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real amino acid sequencing and sequencing the corresponding DNA in the gene is two ways to
Definition
sequence proteins
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insulin consists of
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two polypeptide chains A and B held together by two disulfide bonds
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Eddman reagent (most common), PTH derivatives, Sanger's or Dansyl Cl
Definition
determining the N terminus
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C terminal analysis
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enzymatic analysis (carboxypeptidase)
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Carboxypeptidase A
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cleaves any residue except Pro, Arg, and Lys
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Carboxypeptidase B (hog pancreas)
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only works on Arg and Lys
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Mixture of Carboxypeptidase B and A cleave all but
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Proline
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Carboxypeptidase C and Y
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cleave all residues
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Extreme pH, 8M urea, 6M guanidine HCL, high salt do what
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used to separte chains
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Cleavage of disulfide bridges use
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Sulfhydryl reducing agents (metacaptoethanol, dithiothreitol, or dithioerythritol)
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Iodoacetate
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alkylating agent that prevents reforming of disulfide bridges,
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Enzymatic Fragmentation
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Trypsin, chymotrypsin, clostripain, staphylooccal V8 protease
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Chemical fragmentation
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cyanogen bromide
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Trypsin
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cleavage on the C side of Lys, and Arg
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Clostripain
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Like Trypsin but attack Arg more than Lys
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Chymotrypsin
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cuts the C-side of Phe, Tyr, Trp
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Staphylococcal V8 protease
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C side of Glu, Asp, in phosphate buffer
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Specific for Glu, in acetate or bicarbonate buffer
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Staphylococcal V8 protease
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Only reacts on methionine residues
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Cyanogen bromide
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Produces a peptide with a C terminal homoserine lactone
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Cyanogen bromide
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Observations of what can be used to build phylogenetic trees
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Cytochrome C studies
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Beta turn
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beta bend, or tight turn
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Proline and glycine are prevalent in
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beta turns
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In a beta turn
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Carbonyl C of one residue is H-bonded to the amine proton of a residue 3 residues away
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Fivrous Proteins
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PLay a structural role in nature, mechanically strong, usually insoluble, most of the chain is organized and approximately parallel to a single axis
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Alpha helix is found in
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hair,fingernails, claws and horns
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Primary structure consists of 7-residue repeats( a-b-c-d-e-f-g) where a and d are nonpolar
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alpha helices
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Seuqences consists of alpha residues capped with non-helical N and C termini
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Alpha helices
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Perm does what
Definition
breaks the disulfide bridges
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Ellman's test is to test for
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cystine
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Found in silk fibers
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beta keratin
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In the formation all the glycines are on one side and the alanines and serines are on the other side
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Beta Keratin/ Sheets
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Basic unit of collagen is
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tropocollagen
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Polar Amino Acids are
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Glycine, Serine, Asparagine, Glutamine, Tyrosine, Cysteine, Threonine
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Nonpolar amino acids
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Leucine, Proline, Methionine, Tryptophan, Isoleucine, Phenylalanine, Valine, Alanine
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Acidic A. acids
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Aspartic , and Glutamic
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Basic A. acids
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Histidine, Arginine, Lysine
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Where the proline content is unusually high
Definition
Collagen
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The composition of collagen is not suited for alpha or beta sheets but rather
Definition
triple helices
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40 nm gaps in collagen fibers arae called ____ and they contain carbohydrate and are thought to be nucleation site for bone formation
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Hole regions
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In globular proteins
Definition
most polar rediues face outward of the protein and interat with the solvent
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Most hydrophobic resides face the interiorof the protein and interact with each other
Definition
Globular Proteins
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Replication
Definition
yields two DNA molecules identical to the original one
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Transcription
Definition
sequence of bases in DNA is recorded as a sequence of complementary bases in a single-stranded mRNA molecule
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Translation
Definition
three bases codons on the mRNA correspondind to a specific a.acid, directing the building of proteins
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Pyrimidine
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C,T,U
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Purines
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A,G
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Deaminated cytosine
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Uracil
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Bases are linked via what bond
Definition
Glycosidic
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Carbond of the glycosidic bond is
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anomeric
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what makes nucleosides more water soluble than free bases
Definition
Sugars
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Adenosine
Definition
vascodilator, muscle relaxant, produces sleepines
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Caffine blocks what
Definition
Adenosine
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ATP
Definition
central to energy metabolism
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GTP
Definition
drives protein synthesis
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CTP
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drives lipid synthesis
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UTP
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drives carbohydrate metabolism
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rRNA
Definition
the basis of structure and function of ribosomes
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mRNA
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carries the message
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tRNA
Definition
carries the amino acid
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siRNA
Definition
Gene silencing
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In prokaryotes mRNA is
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polycistronic
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IN eukaryotes the mRNA is called the
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hnRNA or the pre-mRNA
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WHat is spliced and thrown away in the euk. mRNA
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the introns are spliced
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Ribosome are mainly____ than proteins
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RNA
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CCA-aa
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3' terminal sequence in tRNA
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Hydrolyzed by a dilute base
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RNA
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depurinated by dilute acid
Definition
DNA
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SNAKE venom phosphodiesterase is a
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a cutter ( cuts to the left of the P-bond)
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Spleen
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b cutter (cuts to the right of the P-bond)
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These RE cleave DNA chain at selected sites
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Type 2 and 3
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RE with no ATP requirement
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Type 2
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Type two RE can leave what kind of ends when cut
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Sticky or blunt
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A and T share how many H bonds
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two
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C and G shared how many H bonds
Definition
Three bonds
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The right hand forms of DNA
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A and B
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11 bp per turn
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A DNA (shortest and broad)
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10 bp per turn
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B DNA (long and thin)
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12 bp per turn
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Z DNA (longest and thinnest)
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Found in rich G:C regions. G goes to syn and C goes to ani conformation
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Z- DNA
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G:C H-bonds can be preserved in the transition from
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B to Z formation
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when DNA is heated it UV absorbance increases by
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30%-40%
Term
Hyperchromic shift reflects
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unwinding of the DNA double helix
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Ezymes that can reduce or introduce supercoiling
Definition
topoisomerases or gyrases
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Topoisomerase 1
Definition
cut one DNA strand, pass the other one through and rejoin them
Term
topoisomerase 2
Definition
using ATP cuts both strands
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topoisomerase that introduces neg. supercoiling
Definition
gyrase
Term
Uses ATP to unwind DNA and put neg. supercoiling w/o breaking the strands.
Definition
Helicase
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# of base pairs in DNA/ bp per turn =
Definition
Linking number
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Chromatin consists of
Definition
histone and nonhistone chromosomal proteins
Term
Nonhistone proteins are
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regulators of gene expression
Term
Many non-canonical bp found in
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tRNA
Term
DNA Pol 1 has what activity
Definition
5' to 3' polymerase, 3' to 5' exonuclease, and 5' to 3' exouclease activity
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5' exonuclease activity accomplishes
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nick translation
Term
The real plymerase in E. coli is
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DNA pol 3
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Core enzyme has three subunits
Definition
alpha, epsilon and theta
Term
THe alpha subunit in the core enzyme is the
Definition
DNA polymerase
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The epsilon subunit is the
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3' exonuclease
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What DNA pol uses a RNA primer 12 nucleotides long
Definition
DNA Pol 3
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What polymerase excises the primer and refills with DNA
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DNA pol 1
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Tus protein is a
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contrahelicase
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