Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids Part 1 Chapter 8. Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids –Biological function...
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Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids Part 1 Chapter 8. Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids –Biological function of nucleotides and nucleic acids –Structures of common
Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids Biological function of
nucleotides and nucleic acids Structures of common nucleotides
Structure of double-stranded DNA Structures of ribonucleic acids
How Proteins bind to DNA Learning Goals
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Functions of Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids Nucleotide
Functions: Energy for metabolism (ATP, GTP, CTP, UTP) Enzyme
cofactors (NAD +, NADP +, FAD) Signal transduction (cAMP, cGMP)
Nucleic Acid Functions: Storage of genetic info (DNA) Transmission
of genetic info (mRNA) Processing of genetic information
(ribozymes) Protein synthesis (tRNA and rRNA)
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Nucleotides and Nucleosides Nucleotide = Nitrogeneous base
Pentose Phosphate Nucleoside = Nitrogeneous base Pentose Nucleobase
= Nitrogeneous base
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N-Glycosidic Bond In nucleotides the pentose ring is attached
to the nucleobase via N-glycosidic bond The bond is formed to the
anomeric carbon of the sugar in configuration The bond is formed:
to position N1 in pyrimidines to position N9 in purines This bond
is quite stable toward hydrolysis, especially in pyrimidines Bond
cleavage is catalyzed by acid
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Modified Nucleotides
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Modified Nucleotides - More
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Chemical Instability of RNA at Alkaline pHs
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UV Spectrum
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ds DNA
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ds DNA on the English 2 Pound Coin
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Watson and Crick Had Three Sets of Data 1.Rosalind Franklins
X-ray crystallography 2.Chargaffs Rules 3.Chemical Structures of
Nucleotides
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Rosalind Franklins X-ray Crystallography
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Some of Chargaffs Rules 1.DNA base composition varies between
species. 2.DNA from different tissues of same species has the same
base composition. 3.Base composition of a species does not vary
with age, nutritional state, or change in environment. 4.No matter
what species A = T and G = C and [purines] = [pyrimidines] which is
A+G = T+C Erwin Chargaff in the 1940s worked out methods to measure
each nucleotide in DNA. The rules made sense when applied to the
Watson-Crick DNA structure.
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DNA Bases Pairing Suppose you isolated DNA from two
unidentified species of bacteria: species X and species Y. You know
that adenine makes up 32% of species X DNA and 13% of species Y
DNA. How much of each nucleotide are present in these two DNAs? One
species was isolated from a hot thermal spring, which is the most
likely one?
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The Watson-Crick Structures
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The Beauty of the Watson-Crick Structure was that it gave a way
to do Hi-fidelity Replication
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DNA is not necessarily straight, and it can bend.
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Most DNA is in the anti-conformation
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DNA can From Three Types of Helices
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Forces that hold two ssDNA dsDNA 1.H-bondsand 2. hydrophobic
stacking About equal in strength..look at the diagrams, wheres the
water?
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DNA Helix Forms A B Z
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Looking Down the DNA Helix
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How Long is Your Book Laid Page by Page? Lehninger 5 th Edition
is 1,263 printed pages + a few blanks pages are 21.5 cm wide x 27.5
cm high. Placing the pages next to each other then the book is How
Long? Answers = 271.5 meters side by side.. or 347.3 meters tops to
bottoms or in Sports terms: About 2.7 to 3.5 and football fields
long. NOW EOC Problem 3: How long is your DNA? The average human
has about 0.5 g DNA. The B-helix weighs about 10 -18 g/1000
nucleotide pairs. What more information do you needto get the
answer? Do it !!
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B-Z Junctions How to Go from Right Handed to Left Handed Ha, et
al. 2005. Crystal structure of a junction between B-DNA and Z- DNA
reveals two extruded bases. Nature. 437:1183-1186. Samsung
Biomedical Research Institute, Seol, Korea and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
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B-Z Junctions an AT pair flipped inside out.
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B-Z Junction Side View Z DNA is a higher energy form of the
double helixstabilized by negative supercoiling (generated by
transcription or unwrapping from nucleosomes). Z DNA near the
promoter stimulates transcription. Stabilized by proteinsKd in nM
range. Butcan relax back to the B helix. Extruded bases may be site
for DNA modification.
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DNA Binding Proteins Its all in the Grooves EOC Problem 1 looks
at H-bonding from the sides of the DNA strand..through the
grooves.
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Proteins that Bind DNA Showing Major Groove
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Helix Turn Helix Motif Bacterial Lac Repressor
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Lac Repressor (grey) Bound to DNA (blue)
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Minor Groove is Also Important Rhos et al. Nature 461:1248 2009
Minor Groove narrowing with AT tracts variation in shape. Enhances
Arg Binding
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Things to Know and Do Before Class 1.Structure and chemistry of
the nucleotides. 2.Essence of Chargaffs Rules. 3.Structure and
properties of the dsDNA and dsRNA helices. 4. BZ junctions. 5. How
proteins bind to DNA. 6. EOC Problems: 1-3