Krazy Kinetics
Hit the Glycoslide
Lovin' Those Lipids
BIOL 4843 (Molecular Biology)
And Other Things That May Be Important
100

This rate constant is equal to (k2+k3)/k1 or the substrate concentration at which Vmax is half.

What is Km?

100

Due to the steric interferences of axial vs. equatorial interactions, this anomeric form is generally considered more favorable.

What is beta?

100

This phospholipid head group is partially composed of a nitrogen with a positive charge and four connections to carbon atoms.

What is choline?

100

The two bases in traditional Watson-Crick-Franklin pairing with three hydrogen bonds are these.

What are Cytosine and Guanine?

100

If I start with 10,000 bacteria and end up with 30,000, the percent increase of the bacteria is this.

What is 200%?

200

Vmax, describing the maximum velocity of a reaction, is found by multiplying these two terms. 

What are [E]t and k3 (or kcat)?

200
Maltose is a disaccharide with this kind of glycosidic linkage between these two monosaccharide units.

What are a1,4 between two glucose residues?

200

This lipid has a shorthand notation of 16:0.

What is palmitic acid?

200

At physiological pH, adenine is composed of these atoms.

What are 5C5N5H?

200

Sanger sequencing functions by adding these kind of molecules to terminate replication.

What are dideoxy Nucleotide tri-phosphates

300

A enzymatic reaction with a competitive inhibitor lowers this part of the M-M equation with an alpha term.

What is Km?

300

What is this sugar based on its Fischer structure? [See slideshow].

What is L-gulose?

300

The general form of the membrane transport equation can be described as this.

What is G=RTln(c2/c1)+zfE

300

The experiments of Chargaff found that these pairs of nucleotides were found in equal amounts across different organisms.

What are A=T and G=C?

300

The name and linkage of this disaccharide is this. [See slideshow].

What is sucrose in an a1-2b linkage?

400

The Lineweaver-Burk plot is found by doing this to the M-M equation.

What is taking the double reciprocal?

400

What is this sugar based on its Haworth projection?

What is a-D-Galactofuranose?

400

The absolute and relative configuration of this molecule are said to be this. [See Slideshow].

What are L and R?

400

A cytidylate is a molecule that has smaller components of these groups.

What are a 5 carbon sugar (ribose or deoxyribose), a cytosine group, and one phosphate?

400

A single-substrate enzyme that obeys Michaelis-Menten kinetics displays the following parameters: Km = 3.4 mM; Kd = 5.7 M, and the rate constant k1 = 1  108 M-1 s-1. Given this information, what is the value of the rate constant kcat? Report your answer to the nearest ones. The units are understood to be reciprocal seconds. E+S<->ES-->E+P

What is (approx) 340,000?

500

This Lineweaver-Burk plot can be accurately described as this kind of inhibition. [see slideshow.]


What is a perfectly noncompetitive inhibitor?

500

A reducing center of a sugar is this numbered sugar.

What is Carbon 1 (or the anomeric carbon)?

500

The sodium potassium pump transports 5 ions for every molecule of ATP that is hydrolyzed: 3 Na+ out of the cell and 2 K+ into the cell. The pump maintains internal Na+ at 12 mM and external Na+ at 143 mM; it maintains internal K+ at 138 mM and external K+ at 7 mM. Assuming that the membrane potential is –64 mV (inside negative relative to outside), the temperature is 37 °C, and F is 23.1 kcal/V·mol, the amount of energy it takes to run this pump is this. 

What is 9.7?

500

This nucleotide can be identified as this. [See slideshow].

What is guanine?

500

An uncatalyzed reaction has a rate of 4.2x10^-7 s–1 at room temperature (25 °C). When an enzyme is added the rate is 3.2 x10^4 s–1. If the height of the activation barrier for the uncatalyzed rate is 29.5 kcal/mol, what is the height of the activation barrier for the catalyzed rate? Report your answer in terms of kcal/mol to the nearest tenths. Also, assume the pre-exponential terms for the uncatalyzed and catalyzed reactions are the same. [See slideshow].

What is 14.7kcal/mol?