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*remove water between C=O and HN=R | *remove water between C=O and HN=R | ||
*add H20 to make C=NH-R | *add H20 to make C=NH-R | ||
- | + | *This shifts the wavelength longer | |
- | + | *So if we find a schiff base on a lysine on a protein like Rhodopsin. | |
- | + | *Schiff base = rhodopsin - purple when shift base | |
- | + | **color vision is dependent on formation of shift base | |
+ | *exmaple: Aldolase | ||
+ | **an important enzyme in glycolasis | ||
+ | **Fructose 1,6 bisphosphate (a six-carbon chain) -- (Aldolase --> dihydroxyacetone phisphate (a two carbon chain) + glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (a 3 carbon chain) | ||
+ | <h6>Amid Linkage</h6> | ||
+ | *same as asparagine and glutamine | ||
+ | *example pyruvate carboxylase | ||
+ | **sticks a CO2 group on pyruvate | ||
+ | **Biotin is used to get C=) group available for putting on pyruvate | ||
+ | ***Note, there are many drawings here. | ||
+ | <h6>Salt linkage</h6> | ||
+ | *Brings in anions | ||
+ | *Easiest |
Revision as of 02:37, 14 October 2006
Contents |
Amino Acids
- There are 20 coded for in genetic sequences
- A protein is a sequence of amino acids --also called a polypeptide
- All amino acids can form peptide bonds
- R groups interact with water
- Negative interaction (or r-groups not wanting to be near water) is called the hydrophobic effect
- Positive interaction = ?
Amino Acids and Protein Structure
- Primary structure is the sequence of amino acids
- Secondary Structure is the folding caused by r-group interaction with water
- Special structural roles:
- Example of special role: proline stops alpha helices because it is an imino acid with restricted bending.
Class 2 Amino Acids: Uncharged, Polar
- This section continues to detail the categories listed near the end of lecture on 09/13/06.
- This group includes:
- Alcohols: serine, threonine, tyrosine
- Asparagine and Glutamine
- Sulphur amino acids: cystine
Serine
Serine Peptidases: a family of enzymes
- Cleave peptide bonds by adding water
- Serine is at the active site
- We need the serine at the active site so as to end with an O- after an SN2 reaction
- Chymotrypsin is one of these enzymes --used in digestion.
Phosphorylation
- Phosphorylation can cause a fold change in the protein when the phosphate group is added
- This fold change could increase or decrease the protein's reactivity.
- This is a control mechanism for turning proteins on and off.
- Examples:
- Glycogen phosphorilase: increases reaction rate (of something...)
- Pyruvate dehydrogenase (an oxido-reduction reaction): decreases the reaction rate.
- Phosphorylation is reversible.
- Threonine and tyrosine can be phosphorylated and dephosphorylated.
- Serines at specific locations are control points.
Phospholipid Role (Phosphotydilserine)
- an example of nature using two chemicals it likes in non-primary roles (meaing serine and lipids are being used but not in ways that we would call primary like we would the buiding of proteins and membranes, respectively)
Tyrosine
Phosphorylation
- Again, a control mechanism
Planar
- Can lay against another planar molecule to protect the Pi electrons (e-)
Asparagine and Glutamine
- When we sequence we hydrolyse stuff and this process makes these two amino acids look the exact same
- Asparagine has a special role as it is the only amino acid sugars can be attached to so as to make glycoproteins.
Cysteine
- An oxidation reduction reaction makes disulfide bonds between two Cysteines spacially (as opposed to sequentially) near to one another in a protein
- These disulfide bonds give a tight, precise conformation to the protein. They hold the tertiary structure together.
- Disulfide bonding is reversible.
- Disulfide bonds are not made by hyrdolysis!
- Two cysteine disulfide bonded are called a cystine.
Glycine
- Can be a neurotransmitter like acitityl coline (this is done as a monomer, not in a protein or polypeptide form)
- Glycines are found in tight folding areas of proteins because they do not have an r-group to get in the way.
- Glycines are found in porgerins, purines and pyrimidines (the latter two from nucleic acids)
- Nature really likes this molecule.
Class Three Amino Acids: Positively Charged (Cations)
- These have more functions than most other amino acids
- These are the really dynamic amino acids
Lysine
- Lysine likes to hang out in the active site like a fishing hook
- Lysine is called an E-amine (or an Epsilon amine)
Lysines Many Bonds
Schiff base
- remove water between C=O and HN=R
- add H20 to make C=NH-R
- This shifts the wavelength longer
- So if we find a schiff base on a lysine on a protein like Rhodopsin.
- Schiff base = rhodopsin - purple when shift base
- color vision is dependent on formation of shift base
- exmaple: Aldolase
- an important enzyme in glycolasis
- Fructose 1,6 bisphosphate (a six-carbon chain) -- (Aldolase --> dihydroxyacetone phisphate (a two carbon chain) + glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (a 3 carbon chain)
Amid Linkage
- same as asparagine and glutamine
- example pyruvate carboxylase
- sticks a CO2 group on pyruvate
- Biotin is used to get C=) group available for putting on pyruvate
- Note, there are many drawings here.
Salt linkage
- Brings in anions
- Easiest