Chapter 2. Protein Composition and Structure

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Biochemistry
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Zusammenfassung der Ressource

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What is the function of insulin?
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  • Treat diabetes
  • Protein hormone
  • crucial to maintaining salt levels at appropriate levels
  • crucial to maintaining blood sugar at appropriate levels

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One of the key properties of proteins are?
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  • Proteins are perpendicular polymers composed of amino acids
  • proteins have a wide variety of functional groups
  • Proteins can not interact with one another and other macromolecules to form complexes
  • All proteins are rigid and flexible

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A primary structure is ?
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  • Chains of amino acids in a specific sequence
  • Entire chains fold into well defined structures
  • Amino acids close to one another within a sequence can fold into regular structures
  • Composed of multiple polypeptide chains called subunits

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Alpha helix and beta strands are examples of secondary structures formed by adjacent alpha strands
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  • True
  • False

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Globular proteins such as myoglobin is an example of primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary structure?
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  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Tertiary
  • Quaternary

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Hemoglobin is an example of a quaternary structure
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  • True
  • False

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What are the functions of enzymes?
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  • Degrades DNA
  • Degrades RNA
  • Catalyst

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Myofibrils is an example of a protein
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  • True
  • False

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Four classes of amino acids are as followed: [blank_start]Hydrophobic[blank_end] amino acids, [blank_start]Polar[blank_end] amino acids, [blank_start]Positively[blank_end] charged amino acids, and [blank_start]Negatively[blank_end] charged amino acids
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  • Hydrophobic
  • Polar
  • Positively
  • Negatively

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What are the components of an amino acid?
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  • Carbon
  • Nitrogen
  • Carboxylic acid
  • Amino group
  • R group
  • L group

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Only the R isomer is found in proteins
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  • True
  • False

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At neutral pH amino acids primarily exist in the [blank_start]zwitterions[blank_end] form
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  • zwitterions

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Which amino acid is a hydrophobic amino acid?
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  • Glycine
  • Serine
  • Arginine
  • Aspartic Acid

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Positively charged amino acids are
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  • Histidine
  • Tyrosine
  • Leucine
  • Arginine
  • Isoleucine
  • Lysine

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Polar amino acids are
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  • Serine
  • Valine
  • Threonine
  • Tyrosine
  • Glutamine
  • Cysteine
  • Methionine
  • Asparagine

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Negatively charged amino acids consist of [blank_start]Aspartic[blank_end] acid and [blank_start]Glutamic[blank_end] Acid
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  • Aspartic
  • Glutamic

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Phenylalanine, Tryptophan, and Methionine are examples of what amino acid?
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  • Polar
  • Positively charged
  • Hydrophobic
  • Negatively charged

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Glycine, alanine, proline, valine and serine are examples of hydrophobic amino acids
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  • True
  • False

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Peptide bonds are planar
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  • True
  • False

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Amino acids are linked by
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  • peptide bonds to form Polypeptide chains
  • alpha helix
  • beta sheets
  • disulfide bonds

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Most proteins consist of [blank_start]50[blank_end] to [blank_start]2000[blank_end] amino acids
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  • 50
  • 2000

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Polypeptide chain can be cross-linked by sulfide bonds
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  • True
  • False

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Secondary structure
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  • Polypeptide chains that fold into regular structures such as alpha helix, and beta sheet
  • Hemoglobin
  • Myoglobin
  • Chains of amino acids in a specific sequence

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Alpha helix are
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  • Coiled structures stabilized by intracain hydrogen bonds
  • Stabilized by hydrogen bonds between polypeptide strands
  • Not as rod like, fully extended not tightly coiled

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Osteogenesis imperfecta
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  • Defect in collagen, Brittle bone disease occurs if a mutation results in the substitution of another amino acid in place of glycine
  • lack of vitamin C preventing hydroxylation of collagen leading to abnormalities in collagen
  • absence of vitamin K leading to proteins not being carboxylated

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Tertiary structure
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  • Refers to spatial arrangement of amino acids that are far apart in the primary structure and to the pattern of disulfide bond formation
  • Can be as simple as two identical polypeptide chains or as complex as dozens of different polypeptide chains
  • Three-dimensional structure formed by hydrogen bonds between peptide NH and CO groups of amino acids that near one another in the primary structure

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Keratin and collagen are examples of fibrous proteins
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  • True
  • False

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Myoglobin is found within your [blank_start]muscle[blank_end] and [blank_start]binds oxygen[blank_end] on your muscle
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  • muscle
  • binds oxygen

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Quaternary structure
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  • Hemoglobin
  • Globular proteins
  • Spatial arrangement of subunits and their nature of their interaction
  • Spatial arrangement of amino acids that are far apart in the primary structure
  • Structure assemble with other chains to form arrays such as the complex of six insulin molecules
  • Myoglobin

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Hemoglobin is an example of tertiary structure?
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  • True
  • False

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Proteins can be denatured by any treatment that disrupts the weak bonds stabilizing tertiary structure such as
Antworten
  • Heating
  • Denaturants

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Scurvy is an example of a disease that results from dysfunctional protein modification and is due to?
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  • Lack of vitamin D which prevents hydroxylation of collagen
  • Lack of vitamin C which prevents hydroxylation of collagen leading to abnormalities in collagen
  • due to absence of vitamin K leading to clotting proteins not being carboxylated

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Hemorrhaging is due to the absence of vitamin K
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  • True
  • False

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Amyloidoses plaques cause disease such as
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  • Alzheimer's
  • Parkinson's
  • Huntington's
  • HIV
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta
  • Sickle cell

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The function of a promoter is to initiate process or transcription
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  • True
  • False
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