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SGU: Nucleic Acids Fill In The Blanks

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Question: the term supercoilingAnswer: DNA double helix that have twists applied to them that have coiled up upon themselves
Question: What is a ?Answer: – heterocyclic compound consisting of pyrimidine fused to a 5 member imidazole ring (adenine and )
Question: What is a ?Answer: hererocyclic compounds with nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3 of a 6 member ring (thymine, , uracil)
Question: What is a ?Answer: consist of a nitrogenous base and a sugar (H present at 2’ C)
Question: What is a ?Answer: nitrogenous base (attached to 1’ C by B-N-glycosidic bond), a sugar (OH at 2’ C), and a phosphate group (backbone of DNA, attached to 5’ C) – present in RNA molecules
Question: What is a ?Answer: nitrogenous base, deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate (present in DNA molecules)
Question: Describe the phosphodiester Answer: The phosphodiester bond is between the 3’ OH group of the deoxyribose/ribose on the last nucleotide and the 5’-phosphate of the dNTP/NTP – basically it is a bond that connects nucleotides in DNA
Question: What is the function of modification made to tRNA and rRNA for (ie. 4-thiouracil, )?Answer: enzyme/tRNA , tRNA condon recognition, peptide synthesis by ribosome
Question: What is the difference between a ribose and ?Answer: : OH on 2'carbon Deoxyribose: -H on 2'carbon
Question: between nucleoside and nucleotide?Answer: Nucleoside: nitrogenous base and a ribose/deoxyribose sugar Nucleotide: nitrogenase base, ribose/deoxyribose and a grp
Question: How do you DNA or RNA polymersAnswer: DNA/RNA poly the formation of a phosphodiester bond between the 3'OH of deoxyribose/ribose on the last nucleotide and the 5'-phosphate of the dNTP/NTP precursor
Question: What is the of purines to pyrimidines in double stranded DNA?Answer: 1:1 (ie. 50% and 50% pyrimidines)
Question: What is 's rule?Answer: A=T and C=G
Question: What are the 7 of DNA?Answer: 1. Two polynuc right handed double helix 2. Antiparallel. 3. sugar-phosphate outside, bases inside 4. bases bound by H-bonds 5. complementary base pairing 6. bases .34nm apart, 10 bases/turn,external diameter is . major and minor groove
Question: How long is each DNA /cell?Answer: 2 metres
Question: What are the structural forms of DNA?Answer: Z-DNA, B-DNA and A-DNA
Question: Z-DNAAnswer: left handed helix. may be in gene regulation
Question: A-DNAAnswer: handed helix, dehydrated state, no biological significance.
Question: In nature how does DNA ?Answer: It exists in tertiary (supercoiling) and structures (coiling with histones).
Question: What protein is involved in creating ?Answer: topoisomerase
Question: Describe structures and of the mRNAAnswer: linear and stranded, carries codon information for translation (2%)
Question: Describe structures and roles of the Answer: loop structures formed by intra-molecular H-bonding, carries amino acids to ribosomes (16%)
Question: Describe structures and of the tRNAAnswer: linear, single stranded, folded molecule that complexes with to form ribosomes (82%)
Question: What is Tm?Answer: the temperature at 50% of DNA becomes single stranded.
Question: What Tm?Answer: high C-G content (incr Tm), high salt (incr Tm)
Question: What affects the rate of annealing of DNA ?Answer: Size of DNA (long DNA takes longer), complexity of
Question: Describe the of microRNA?Answer: regulate gene expression by to a complementary single stranded RNA which triggers the cell to destroy it
Question: FISH.Answer: Take a single stranded DNA with gene sequence of interest with a probe let it anneal to DNA in cell and look for fluorescence.
Question: How do analog drugs inhibit DNA replication?Answer: analogs have a higher affinity for reverse transcriptase and incorporate the analog without an OH on the 3' carbon.
Question: What group does didanosine have in its 3' slot?Answer: doesn't have
Question: What analogs are used for HIV ?Answer: Didanosine,
Question: What are used to kill rapidly dividing cancer cells?Answer: arabinoside (cytarabine) and Vidarabine (adenosine arabinoside)
Question: How does vidarabine and cytarabine the activity of DNA poly?Answer: 3' OH is in a planar configuration
Question: What happens to DNA with a lot of groups?Answer: DNA is shut of.
Question: What is the of azacytidine and 5-azacytidine?Answer: Used to cancer by inhibiting methyltransferase enzymes from adding a methyl group to them.
Question: supercoiling.Answer: Supercoiling DNA; negative supercoiling promotes strand separation while positive supercoiling is introduced during DNA replication and transcription and must be corrected
Question: Which enzymes accomplish DNA coiling in ?Answer: The topoisomerases: DNA gyrase (topoisomerase II in eukaryotes) and DNA topoisomerase
Question: What are the of supercoiling DNA?Answer: 1. DNA 2.Negative promotes strand separation 3. Positive promotes DNA replication and transciption
Question: Where is positive supercoiling introduced (with respect to the proteins) DNA replication or transcription?Answer: of the protein doing the supercoiling
Question: Where is negative supercoiling introduced (with to the proteins) during DNA replication or transcription?Answer: behind the doing the supercoiling
Question: Which enzymes correct for and how?Answer: Topoisomerase I: forms a single covalent bond with the DNA and breaks phosphodiester bond to free rotation
Question: How does DNA correct the case of two double helices crossing over each other?Answer: 1. makes a covalent linkage to both strands of one helix and a double stranded break. 2. 2nd DNA is passed through break 3. break is resealed
Question: What is ?Answer: complex of DNA and chromosomal (histones)
Question: What is a core composed of?Answer: H2A, H2B, H3,
Question: A is connected together by linker DNA and what protein?Answer: H1 histone
Question: How does the 30nm form?Answer: Interactions between adjacent histone H1 .
Question: Which base pair is during transcriptional repression?Answer: cytosine
Question: List the antibiotic that interfere with DNA gyraseAnswer: The quinalone family of antibiotics, including naladixic acid and ciprofloxacin, work by DNA gyrase. A halt in DNA replication results due to positive supercoiling ahead of the replication fork.
Question: Describe the structure of and histone proteinsAnswer: Histones are rich in lysine and arginine, and as a result a positive charge. This makes it easier for negatively charged chromatin to associate.
Question: What is the name of the version of histone protein?Answer: HU protein
Question: How do DNA and interact with eachother?Answer: DNA is negatively charged and histones are charged and are therefore attracted to eachother.
Question: Define .Answer: decondensed and transcriptionally DNA
Question: heterochromatin.Answer: condensed and inactive DNA
Question: What is the function of DNA enzymeAnswer: of cytosine to 5-methyl-cytosine
Question: Describe the of DNA transcription repression.Answer: Following DNA methylation, methyl cytosine binding proteins bind to the DNA, HDAC binds and removes acetyl groups off of histones giving them a greater positive charge and inducing .
Question: What happens to DNA when histones are .Answer: - active.
Question: What are required for synthesis of DNA?Answer: 1. All four dNTPs 2. A fragment of DNA template 3. DNA poly 4. Mg2+ 5. primer with 3'
Question: In what does DNA poly read DNA?Answer: 3' to 5'
Question: What nucleotide is acyclovir an of?Answer:
Question: enzyme converts acyclovir to acyclovir triphosphate and in what organism is it found in?Answer: -thymidine kinase; organism-virus
Question: Explain a tautomeric .Answer: An unstable of cytosine to mimic a thymine. It then gets base paired with A.
Question: Explain the significance of origins of .Answer: site at DNA replication occurs in both directions
Question: What is leading synthesis?Answer: Continual of DNA. Synthesis proceeds towards replication fork.
Question: What is lagging strand ?Answer: DNA has to drop down a primer. Synthesis proceeds away from the fork.
Question: What is the of SSB proteins?Answer: prevent re-annealing of DNA and prevent hairpin from forming
Question: How are Okazaki fragments joined ?Answer: DNA which uses ATP.
Question: What is the of the Clamp protein?Answer: tightly holds the DNA poly onto the template for synthesis of long templates and DNA poly when it stalls at a region of dsDNA
Question: What drug bacterial DNA gyrase?Answer: Ciprofloxacin
Question: What is the of telomerase and what kind of activity does it have?Answer: It has reverse transcriptase activity. It has an RNA primer and binds it to the DNA overhang to . A primer can then be added so DNA poly can fill in that gap
Question: What are the types of RNA?Answer: mRNA, tRNA, rRNA,
Question: What is ?Answer: combines with certain proteins and is involved in RNA and gene regulation in eukaryotes
Question: the major steps of RNA synthesis in prokaryotes Answer: 1. RNA polymerase binds -35 & -10 region, DNA molecule is unwound, factor disassociates from core enzyme after 8-9 ribonucleotides have been polymerized 2.RNA polymerase unwinds DNA 3.transcription terminated at termination sequence
Question: List the RNAs that are transcribed by the different of RNA polymerasesAnswer: RNA polymerase I (5.8S, 18 S, 28S rRNA genes), RNA polymerase II (all protein-coding genes like mRNA and some snRNA), RNA polymerase III (tRNA and some snRNA)
Question: Explain how Courmarins and quinolones and inhibits specfic components of transcription.Answer: bacterial gyrase, causing positive supercoils and subsequent halt of DNA replication and transcription
Question: Explain how Rifamycin targets and inhibits components of transcription.Answer: – antibiotic from strain of streptomyces that transcription initiation by blocking formation of 1st phosphodiester bond, RNA pol of eukaryotes not affected
Question: Is a nucleoside-monophosphate a nucleotide or ?Answer:
Question: How many charges does a nucleotide mono have?Answer: 2 negative
Question: What nucleoside triphosphate is in protein biosynthesis?Answer:
Question: What triphosphate is involved in lipid biosynthesis?Answer:
Question: What nucleoside is involved in carbohydrate biosynthesis?Answer:
Question: What triphosphate is involved in signal transduction?Answer: GTP
Question: What A-type DNA different from B-type?Answer: bases are not perpendicular to axis, major groove and shallower minor groove.
Question: When is A-type DNA ?Answer: When DNA solution is dehydrates, normally with short DNA, dsRNA and DNA/RNA
Question: How do you DNA?Answer: high temp or conditions
Question: What is the melting (Tm)?Answer: temp at half DNA is denatured
Question: What does azidothymidine and do?Answer: block reverse transcriptase/do not have a 3'
Question: What does acyclovir and do?Answer: They have an open chain sugar, acyclovir has a high affinity for viral DNA poly (herpes) and has a high affinity for reverse transcriptase
Question: What do the do?Answer: have a different planar arrangement and block DNA by DNA poly
Question: What do the analogs do?Answer: DNA methylation
Question: What are the between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic mRNA?Answer: bacterial mRNA are polycistronic and unmodified at 5' & 3'
Question: When are the RNA processing transferred to the mRNA?Answer: Processing proteins travel with RNA poly II and are transferred initiation of transcription
Question: What are involved in capping of mRNA?Answer: phosphatase, guanylyl transferase, -7-methyl transferase, 2'-O-methyl transferase.
Question: What is the of phosphatase?Answer: phosphate from 5' end of RNA
Question: What is the of guanylyl transferase?Answer: Adds GMP in linkage
Question: What is the function of -7-methyl transferase?Answer: Adds a group to the 2'-O position to the secondlast base on the 5'end
Question: What is the of the methyl guanine cap?Answer: helps cell distinguish between RNA, plays a role in regulation of mRNA processing, transport, and translation
Question: What are involved in the modifying the 3' tail of mRNA?Answer: CPSF, CstF and cleavage factors, PAP,
Question: What is the of CPSF?Answer: Binds to signal (AAUAAA)
Question: What is the of CstF?Answer: GU-rich element
Question: What is the function of factors?Answer: bind (CA ) to cleavage site
Question: What is the of PAP?Answer: Adds 200A to 3'
Question: What is the of PABP?Answer: binds to tail and in directing translation
Question: What are the of intron removal?Answer: 1. U1 binds 3'GU 2. U2 binds Branch point A 3. U4/6 and U5 bind U1 and U2 3. U4 released 4. 3'GU cleaved and G binds A 5. 3' AG cleaved, Exons ligated, disassembles
Question: What Systemic Lupus Erythematosis?Answer: to U1 snRNA
Question: What beta-thalasemmia?Answer: mutations in the beta-globin gene that generate additional splice sites the mRNA
Question: What causes Limb Girdle Dystrophy?Answer: Mutation in calpain 3 gene that generates a new splice site within the exon
Question: What can alternative RNA splicing?Answer: weak splice site sequences, /positive control
Question: What does the deaminase enzyme do?Answer: introduces a stop codon by alternative splicing into APO-B in intestine to make shorter protein.
Question: What does deaminase do?Answer: Changes A to I in receptor to change glutamine to arginine in brain
Question: How is written by RNA poly and DNA poly?Answer: 5' to 3', N terminus to C
Question: RNA consitutes for 99.9% of total RNA?Answer: mRNA, tRNA &
Question: What does genetic code mean?Answer: several codons code for one acid
Question: What does non-overlapping code mean?Answer: each codon is read three at a time overlap
Question: What is an inframe ?Answer: When entire codons are or inserted
Question: What are the three stop ?Answer: UGA, UAG,
Question: What is the codon?Answer: AUG
Question: What is the hypothesis?Answer: predicts the base pairing of the 5' anticodon and 3' .
Question: Which protein does the IGC carry?Answer: alanine
Question: Is a purine or a pyrimadine?Answer:
Question: what is a a tRNA?Answer: a tRNA with its acid group
Question: What enzyme calatyzes the of an amino acid?Answer: aminoacyl tRNA
Question: What the formation of a charged tRNA?Answer: of pyrophosphate
Question: What are the 5 steps of formation of a polymer from an RNA template?Answer: 1. Activation of the monomer 2. Initiation 3. 4. Termination 5. Processing the polymer
Question: In prokaryotes, after methionine is how what molecule donates it's carbon to make formylmethionine?Answer: N-formyltetrahydrofolate
Question: In , how is the correct start codon recognised?Answer: 30S to the shine delgarno sequence
Question: What the translocation of the mRNA relative to the ribosome?Answer: EF-G or EF-2 with
Question: How is the terminal amino acid from the ribosome?Answer: Release factor allows peptidyl transferase to ester bond between tRNA and amino acid
Question: What are the three differences between prokaryotic and translation?Answer: prokaryotic:polycistronic, translation and transcription together, AUG sites used
Question: How is synthesis affected by streptomycin?Answer: Binds to 30S/prevents of ribosome
Question: How is protein synthesis by tetracycline?Answer: Binds to 70S/prevents to incoming aminoacyl-tRNA
Question: How is protein synthesis by erythromycin?Answer: Binds to 70S/Block
Question: How is protein synthesis affected by ?Answer: peptidyl transferase/blocks elongation
Question: How is synthesis affected by cyclohexamide?Answer: blocks elongation in
Question: How is protein affected by puromycin?Answer: Blocks elongation forming a peptide bond chain causing peptide to fall out of ribosome P-site
Question: How is cleaved to trypsin?Answer: enteropeptidase
Question: What receptor is a tyrosine ?Answer: the receptor
 
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