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this is an in detailed class notes for class biol200 in McGill university in anatomy and cell biology program. this class talks about molecular biology

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Lecture 1
what
heh andstructuralcomplexity
extracttransformand
useenergyfromenvironment
ionsor organism'scomponentsandregulatedinteractionsamongthem
E senseandrespondto environment



life isbuiltbycomplexmacromolecules
lifeneedslargeorganicmolecules tofunction
withoutinputofenergy moleculesdecaytowards moredisorderedstatesandcometoequilibriumwithitssurroundingsandbreakintosmall
solifeneedscontinualinputofe fromenvironment
nergy


cellshaveplasmamembrane


I II Iportenergysourcesandrawmaterials
2 exportwaste
lipidmembraneservesas selectivebarrier
why to i allowtohavegreaterconcentrationsofnutrientsandsynthesizedproductsinsidecell
membranes
allowcellstohavea distinct
i11IT
adininia9iItriu'hiii Thihdings

acompositionofinsidecelli
roteinsaccomplishmostmolecularfunctions differentfromoutsidecel

eachproteinservesasa specificfunction
servestructuralroles
generatemovement
senseanddetectsignals
manyproteinscatalyzereactions enzymes

eneticinformationisstoredinDNA
selfreplicate isinDNA
chemically Dnaismuchsimplerthanproteins




iii iii am
20buildingblocks aminoacids




iii iii iii iii
makesproteins



iii in's in io.iiiimacnineca.caribosome
3 ribosomessynthesizeproteinsusingintoinRNA in cytoplasm
translation


cus init intine sie
directionofthisflow protein RNA
DNAisrequiredasatemplatetosynthesizeDNA

ansiationoccursby readingnucleotides in triplets noneedto memorize ch
ribosomes incorporatespecificaminoacidsusinggeneticcode

there's 4nucleotidesandsoaminoacids
ti greater
mail.in i a i i m'iiiin
2otherRNAsrequired in translation
tRNA coupledtoaminoacidresidue
pairswithmrnasequencetoconvertsequenceincodonsintospecific
aminoacids
ribosomesarecomposedofproteinsandribosomalRNA rrna
theplacewhereproteinsynthesishappenisinRNAmolecule

,lecture 2 Buildingblocksandmacromolecules
neoincellsincarriedby macromolecule
polype
RNA
proteins


mostcommontypeofpolyster
mon.in
stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieromanesitpoiar
HowtocookPET requiresmixing aprecursors
1inputofenergyheat 150290C
aremovalofbyproducts likemethanol

tiae
me iii
have centralcarbonatom ca
aminogroup
carboxylgroup


peptia Ñ iesamino
acidsdiffer
aminoacidsarejointtogetherbycarboxylgroupinonebondedtoaminogroupoftheother resultsinpeptidebondforma


backbone ofproteinislinearchainofcarbonandnitrogenatoms
thatcontainpeptidebonds
sidegroupsstickoutof backbone
haveorientationwithaminogroupatoneendinterminusandcarboxylgroupatothercoterminus
startofprotein 3endofprotein
firstaahastreeNHZ blastaahastreecourt
sidechainsprovide chemical
i dentity to aminoacid
20differentsidechains 20diffaminoacids
humansandothermammalscansynthesize isaminoacids
arestareessentialaminoacids mustcomefromourdiet
Éit
e Eggnog
igemical
reactIT
iii ii
onlyspecialamino
3 groupsofaminoacids
meinwater
eithercontainlinearorbranchedhydrocarbons oraromaticrings
2 hydrophilic
verysolubleinwater
denuaration
either basic acidic orpolarwithunchargedgroups


itsspecial
reactivesulfhydrylgroupsie reasonwhy
serveincatalysisof enzymes
goodfor
s tructure ucanreactwithothercysteinestoformdisulfidebondstojoinapolypeptides


i Ih
forms
T.GE n.I enI I.gg
incorporation of
bondto
covalent
itleadstokinksinlinearchain
n inaminogroupattachedto a csigaraig.eet


Linearpolypeptidechainsfoldintospecific3Dstructuretohaveafunction

Y monomersisnucleotides

bbackbonephosphate iscomposedof pentose scarbonsugar
andacoT
ribose
group phosphate
group
baseringshaped
nitrogenous moleculecontainingnitrogen
negativechargeinphosphatemakesthemacidic

, haveribophosphatebackbone
joinedthroughaphosphodiestercovalentbonds
phosphategroup link a deoxyriboseat sand3
diffbasetohaveuniquesequence
it
haveorientation sendphosphatein'd Tamiya p gig

DNA vs RNA
ribonucleicacid is a deoxyribose
pentose deoxy pentoseribonucleicacid isribose

baifference
islossof on atposition 2 deoxyribose
Thyminebase base

hydrogenbondsweak
noncovalent

c hEner
qi9
doublestranded.com m
as3to s andothersto3 orientation

go.name
liEn bondsbetweenhydrogenbonds but
weaklycovalent sincethere'salotofbonds keeps astrands
together


bribophosphatebackboneoutside

baseinsidespaced osunmappart wideandhaveuniquechemicalinto
turnevery3.43.6mmco10sbasesperturn
complete two
on
outside spacebetweenstrandsformahelicalgrooveman aminor andcannotdistinguishallbases
shallow
atomsonedges
areexposed p

containpairoffusedrings
2typesof bases


containsinglering basesareconnectedtoribosethroughNatomat 9
p PYI.



2nAmoreproneto breakingthanDNA
hydroxylgroupatposition2 inribosecanspontaneouslyreactwithphosphategroup breakRNAmolecule

whyDNAismorestableandchoiceofgeneticmaterial
isitlacksonat a ribose

someviruseshavegenomesofrna longest groupis 40,000nucleotideslong
oneinNidovirales
DNAinourgenomearehundredsofmillions
ofbasepairscapinlengthConromosomes

structureofDNA proteinstoreadsequencewithoutunwindingdoublehelix
allowsDNAbinding
mostproteinDNAinteractionsusemajorgroove


him ami idstereoisomerstoformproteins
bbecauseitsmorebeneficial
ifwesynthesizeproteinshalfwillbe
useofsame20
amino andconservation ofcodonsthatcodeeachofthem
acids
fromhumantobacteriaproducesameprotein
movingagene
998 a
catalyticsiteofribosomesisinrrnasimilar
across
o rganisms

, ecture3 proteinstructure
proteinfunctionisdetermined
bytheirstructure
erarchyofproteinstructure




Iiii
nearpolypeptidechainsfoldintospecific3Dstructurestoacquireafunction

Trimarystructure sequence
hasdirectionality withbeginningavterminusandend cterminus
atomicmassunit
I in re it meroeaaresiduesandintheirmass in.at p
smallestproteinsare 40aa inlength
averageproteindependsonorganism Da
massof 1 aa 110
inyeast averageis466an residues
largestproteinhas34000aa residues
oligopeptides smallchains so
aa


iiieii ii
26akDa bluelightandtransformit
absorb intogreenlight
energy blue energy ox
secondary structure ight
coreefften
peptidechainbackbon.ms
arrangements ofaas
I
ocalconformationsof
generatestablearrangementsofanresidues stabilized
byrebonds
amajorpeptidechainbackbone

Il to basedon abondingbetweenpeptidebondcarbonyloatomsononeaminoandamidenatomsonotheraa res

makesup 60 oflengthofaveragepolypeptidechain

sureofoneaa atpositionin forms abondwithcoofsecondaaatposition na
stiltedaxisgeneratesperiodicityof3.6aa residuesturn
backbone hasstraightrodstructurewithsidechainspoinitingoutwards
surfacepropertiesdependonsidechains
prolineis notfoundahelix determinepropensity ofahelixformationanditsinteractionswithotherpartsofproteinand
molecules




E iii i
B sheets
short ssaal nearlyfullyextendedsegments
H bonds areformed between a ssheetsoriented tochainsofbackbone
alignmentof2ormoreastrandsmakenearly 2 dimensionalsheets
sidechains aboveand belowasheetplane
priggata
baetermine
interactionswithin
proteinandmoleculesandpropensitytoform
organization
insamepolypeptidecanbeparallelorantiparallel

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