Topic 1
Pyrimidine and purine are nitrogenous bases that make up the two different nucleotides in DNA and RNA. Pyrimidines have one ring, purines have how many rings
What is Two
A FASTA database file is used to search and identify____
What is proteins
A protein that changes its confirmation when it binds to a regulatory protein, or when it is covalently modify is known as a____
Allosteric Protein
An enzyme works by doing what to the activation energy
What is decreasing the activation energy
Means to consist of both hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts
What is amphipathic
The only achiral amino acid
What is glycine
What is defined as the substrate concentration required to achieve half of the total velocity of an enzyme catalyzed reaction
What is Km
Evolutionarily related genes in the same organisms that arise from gene duplication events, which often have similar functions
Paralogs
Evolution of new genes from old genes?
What is Vertical Transfer
Peptide bonds are formed via?
What is dehydration synthesis
Protein kinase ____ a phosphate group to a substrate
What is Transfers/adds
What protein serves as a regulatory mechanism that tags proteins for destruction?
Ubiquitin
The process that converts Nitrogen or Carbon from its atmospheric form to its biologically useful form is an example of _____
What is Fixation
The enzyme-catalyzed addition of this chemical side chain can dramatically alter the conformation of a protein
What is a Phosphate Group
This is the most common secondary structure of proteins that crosses the cellular membrane (as the transmembrane region of a larger protein)
What is an Alpha Helix
The most common type of bond that stabilizes a polypeptide chain
What is a disulfide bond
This is the closest phylogenetic relative to eukarya
What is Archaea
The amino acids FAMILYVW share this similar property
What is hydrophobicity
Monoubiquitylation marks a protein for this process
What is histone regulation
Proteins are found exclusively in this stereoisomeric conformation
What are L-amino acids