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CHAPTER 33The Structure of Informational Macromolecules: DNA and RNA
Problems: 4-8,10-11,13-14,19,24-25
• Information flow:
• DNA RNA PROTEIN
• Transcription - copying of the DNA sequence information into RNA
• Translation - Information in RNA molecules is translated during polypeptide chain synthesis
Reverse transcriptase(retro-viruses) Howard Temin
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• Nucleic acids are polynucleotides
• Nucleotides have three components: (1) A five-carbon sugar(2) A weakly basic nitrogen base(3) Phosphate
• Nucleotides are phosphate esters of nucleosides
33:1 A Nucleic Acid Consists of Bases Linked to a Sugar-Phosphate Backbone
Nucleosideadenosine
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NucleotidesAdenylateGuanylateCytidylatethymidylate
Adenosine 5’-triphosphate
deoxyguanosine 3’-monophosphate
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33:1 A Nucleic Acid Consists of Bases Linked to a Sugar-Phosphate Backbone
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DNA Replication is Semiconservative: Meselsonand Stahl
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“Melting” of DNA
• Melting point (Tm) - temperature at which 1/2 of the DNA has become single stranded
• Melting curves can be followed at Abs260nm
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33:3 DNA Double Helices Can Adopt Multiple Forms
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DNA is “Groovy”
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Compacting of DNA
Supercoiling
Negative supercoilTopoisomersTopoisomerase
E. coli chromosome
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33.4 Packaging of DNAin Eukaryotic Cells
• Chromatin - DNA plus various proteins that package the DNA in a more compact form
• The packing ratio: difference between the length of the metaphase DNA chromosome and the extended B form of DNA is 8000-fold
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Nucleosomes• Histones - the major proteins of chromatin
• Eukaryotes contain five small, basic histone proteins containing many lysines and arginines: H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4
• Positively charged histones bind to negatively-charged sugar-phosphates of DNA
• Nucleosome “beads” are DNA-histone complexes on a “string” of double-stranded DNA
• Each nucleosome is composed of:
Histone H1(1 molecule)
Histones H2A, H2B, H3, H4 (2
molecules each)
~200 bp of DNA
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•Packaging of DNA in nucleosomes reduces DNA length ~tenfold
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•DNA is packaged further by coiling of the “beads-on-a-string” into a solenoid structure.
•Achieves another fourfold reduction in chromosome length. (4 X 10 = 40 fold)
360 nm Chromatin Fiber
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Protein scaffold Loops attached
to scaffoldRNA-protein scaffolds
in chromatin
• Chromatin fibers attach to scaffolds
• Holds DNA fibers in large loops
• May be ~2000 loops on a large chromosome
• This accounts for an additional 200-fold condensation in DNA length. (200 X 40 = 8000 fold) 10 X
4 X200 X