Alternative Oxidase

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(Membrane Proteins) Structural Basis for Biological Function Test sobre Alternative Oxidase, creado por gina_evans0312 el 18/12/2013.
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
Why is human african tropanomosis so common?
Respuesta
  • Most drugs are outdated
  • Most drugs have severe side effects
  • Most drugs are incredibly expensive
  • Most drugs cannot be used on the immunocompromised

Pregunta 2

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The cause of Human African Tropanomosis is a virus known as Tropanosome
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
Tropanosomes contain 1 mitochondria that depends on what for energy?
Respuesta
  • Glycerol-3-Dehydrogenase
  • Succinate Dehydrogenase
  • NADH Dehydrogenase
  • Malate Dehydrogenase

Pregunta 4

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The enzyme that tropanosomes rely on allows glycolysis to continue indefinitely
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
What other components make up the tropanonsome's mitochondria?
Respuesta
  • Alternative Oxidase
  • Quinol
  • Cytochrome C
  • Cytochrome BC1 complex

Pregunta 6

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How does Alternative Oxidase get its energy source?
Respuesta
  • Glucose in the blood plasma
  • Glucose in the infected red blood cell
  • Glucose from other blood proteins

Pregunta 7

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Cryptosporidium Parvum can only become fatal to the immunocompromised
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
Name the following
Respuesta
  • Cryptosporidium parvum cysts
  • Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts
  • Cryptosporidium parvum oocytes

Pregunta 9

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Which of the following are characteristic of Alternative Oxidase?
Respuesta
  • Membrane bound
  • Cytoplasmic
  • Reduces O2 to H2O
  • Reduces O2 to H2O2
  • No absorption about 340nm

Pregunta 10

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Alt. Ox. is a 34kDa monomer
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 11

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Why does Alt. Ox. not absorb above 340nm?
Respuesta
  • It contains no Cyt's or Fe-S
  • It contains no chromosomes
  • It contains no Cty's or Flavins

Pregunta 12

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To activate, Alt. Ox must form a dimer
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
What is particular about Rubreythrin?
Respuesta
  • It is the olden protein yet sequenced - 4 billion years old
  • It's the smallest protein yet sequenced - just 40 aa long
  • It's the largest protein yet sequenced - 400,000 kDa

Pregunta 14

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Only 6 aa in Alt. Ox have been conserved, relating it to other di-iron proteins
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
The conserved sequence of Alt. Ox. codes for amino acids holding what?
Respuesta
  • Iron
  • Magnesium
  • Copper
  • Sodium

Pregunta 16

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Which of the following list characteristics of Alt. Oxidase?
Respuesta
  • Sits horizontally in the membrane
  • Sits vertically in the membrane
  • Made of 2 chains, almost entirely of alpha helices
  • Made of 3 chains, almost entirely of alpha helices
  • Made of 2 chains, almost entirely of beta sheets

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
2 Alpha helices dock Alt. Ox in the membrane
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 18

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How does the substrate get to Alt. Ox's active site?
Respuesta
  • Through a hydrophobic cavity
  • It is 'caught' by alpha helices extending into the cytoplasm
  • It uses membrane phospholipids which move through it

Pregunta 19

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The following shows the core of Alt. Oxidase- what's contained in it?
Respuesta
  • 2 Fe atoms
  • 2 Cu atoms
  • Linked by hydroxyl groups
  • Linked by amide groups
  • From 4 leucine residues
  • From 4 glutamine residues
  • And 2 Histadine &1 Tyrosine residues

Pregunta 20

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The Histadine/Tyrosine residues can be used to inhibit Alt. Ox
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 21

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To travel through the channel and reach the active site, inhibitors must be...
Respuesta
  • Hydrophobic
  • Hydrophillic

Pregunta 22

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Different co-ordinations of the aa in the Alt. Ox core can alter the function of it
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 23

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Alt. Ox. is a terminal respiratory chain oxidase
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 24

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Where is Alt. Ox found, in infected humans?
Respuesta
  • Between Complexes 1 & 2
  • Between complexes 2 & 3
  • Between complexes 3 & 4

Pregunta 25

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Alternative Ox is used as a stress protein in pathogens, and an oxygen scavenger in plants
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 26

Pregunta
Which of the following use Alt. Ox?
Respuesta
  • American/Asian Skunk Cabbage
  • Dead Horse Arum
  • Sacred Lotus
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