UNE Medical Biochemistry Midterm Review STUDY GUIDE 2023.

UNE Medical Biochemistry Midterm Review STUDY GUIDE 2023. 1. Ribose and NADPH: A family presents for genetic counseling. The couple has two female children who are alive and well; however, their infant son recently died in the nursery with severe hemolysis (lysis of red blood cells) and jaundice. The wife recalls she lost a brother in infancy with severe hemolysis, induced after a viral infection. The physician suspects a glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, this would result in a deficiency in which of the following compounds in red blood cells? 2. Transketolase: A patient presents to the emergency department with lactic acidosis. A deficiency in thiamine (TPP) is suspected and this will be consistent with a decrease in the activity of following enzymes? 3. UDP-Glucose: Galactose 1-phosphate is initially converted to glucose 1-phosphate and requires which of the following compounds? 4. Thiamine diphosphate: Which of the following cofactors is required for transketolase activity? 5. Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate: Aldolase B facilities a reaction that cleaves fructose 1-phosphate into two 3-carbon molecules that will enter glycolysis as which of the following compounds? 6. Glycolysis: High levels of activity of the non-oxidative portion of the pentose phosphate pathway will directly produce intermediates of which of the following pathways? 7. Glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase: The major regulatory step of the pentose phosphate pathway is catalyzed by which enzyme? 8. VLDL particles: Insulin stimulates fatty acid synthesis in the liver. These fatty acids are transported to the adipose tissue as which of the following? 9. Free fatty acids: A young woman goes to work without eating breakfast and skips lunch. In this scenario, which of the following pathways is providing substrates used to generate ATP in the liver? 10. Glucagon: Caffeine is a natural inhibitor of phosphodiesterase. If you were to consume a large amount of coffee you would likely see a prolonged response to which of the following stimulants or hormones? 11. They enhance transcription when bound to receptors: A teenage female presenting with lack of menstruation (amenorrhea) is found to have a dysfunctional steroid receptor characteristic of androgen insensitivity syndrome. Which of the following statements accurately describes steroid hormones? 12. Intracellular receptors: Steroid hormones bind which of the following types of receptors? 13. They are specific to a chemical