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Nucleic Acids
Chapter 14
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Educational Goals 1. Describe the makeup of nucleosides, nucleotides,
oligonucleotides, and polynucleotides. 2. Describe the primary structure of DNA and RNA and
secondary and tertiary structure of DNA. 3. Explain how replication takes place and describe the
roles of DNA polymerase in this process. 4. Explain how transcription takes place and describe the
role of RNA polymerase in this process. 5. Name the three types of RNA and identify the role of
each in translation. 6. Explain how E. coli control the expression of genes. 7. Give an example of recombinant DNA and how it is
used to help humans. 8. Explain the term mutation and genetic disease.
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Nucleic Acid Building Blocks
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• Nucleic acids are polymers that consist of nucleotide residues. • Each nucleotide is put together from three building blocks: 1) phosphoric acid 2) a monosaccharide 3) an organic base
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1) Phosphoric Acid
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2) Monosaccharides All nucleotides are constructed from one of these two monosaccharides:
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3) Organic Bases
Thymine
Guanine
Cytosine
Adenine
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Organic Bases There are two types of organic bases (amines) that are incorporated into nucleic acids:
1) purines 2) pyrimidines
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Organic Bases
2) pyrimidines
U
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Nucleosides • When ribose or 2-deoxyribose is combined with a purine
or pyrimidine base, a nucleoside is formed. • Nucleosides containing ribose are called ribonucleosides.
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Nucleosides • Nucleosides containing 2-deoxyribose are called deoxyribonucleosides.
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Nucleosides
2’ Oxy 2’ Deoxy
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Nucleotides • When phosphate ion is bonded with one of the -OH
groups on the sugar residue of a nucleoside to form a phosphate monoester, a nucleotide is produced.
• In a nucleotide, the sugar and phosphate residues are connected by a phosphoester bond.
• In a nucleotide, the sugar and organic base residues are connected by a N-glycosidic bond.
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Nucleotides
• The phosphate ion can bond with 3’ carbon on the sugar residue of a nucleoside to form a 3’nucleotide.
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Nucleotides • More common in nature, the phosphate ion can bond
with the 5’ carbon on the sugar residue of a nucleoside to form a 5’nucleotide.
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Nucleotides • Ribonucleosides form ribonucleotides
• Deoxyribonucleosides form deoxyribonucleotides.
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You try it! Draw adenosine 3’-monophosphate. Label the phosphoester bond and the N-glycosidic bond.
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Nucleoside Di- and Triphosphates • Nucleoside Di- and Triphosphates are energy-rich compounds that release large amounts of energy when the phosphates are removed (hydrolyzed).
phosphate adenosine 5’-monophosphate (AMP)
• Adding a phosphate to a nucleoside monophosphate generates a nucleoside diphosphate.
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Adding a phosphate to a nucleoside monophosphate generates a nucleoside diphosphate.
Example:
adenosine 5’-diphosphate (ADP)
Nucleoside Di- and Triphosphates
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adenosine 5’-triphosphate (ATP)
Adding a phosphate to a nucleoside diphosphate generates a nucleoside triphosphate.
Nucleoside Di- and Triphosphates
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Nucleoside Di- and Triphosphates Nucleoside triphosphates such as adenosine 5’-triphosphate (ATP) are the immediate source of energy for most of the energy requiring processes that take place in living things.
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ATP – ADP Energy cycle
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Adenosine cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)
Cyclic Nucleotides • Cyclic nucleotides are formed when one phosphate
group has two phosphoester connections to the same nucleoside monosaccharide.
• In most cases, they function as effectors for allosteric enzymes to regulate biological processes.
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Polynucleotides
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• Nucleotides can be connected to one another to form oligonucleotides (2 to 10 nucleotide residues) and polynucleotides (more than 10 nucleotide residues).
• DNA is made from polymers of deoxyribonucleotides.
• RNA is made from polymers of ribonucleotides.
Polynucleotides
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• The nucleotides are joined to one another by 3’5’-phosphodiester bonds. Example: DNA
3’ terminus
Sugar-phosphate backbone
5’ terminus
3’5’-Phosphodiester bond
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RNA
In RNA, uracil replaces thymine
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DNA Structure
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Every cell nucleus in a particular living organism contains the exact same DNA molecules. Human DNA contains 3 million paired deoxyribonucleotide residues and contains 25,000 genes. Genes are stretches of DNA that carry the codes for protein production.
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The structure of DNA is understood in terms of three levels of structure:
DNA Structure
1) primary 2) secondary 3) tertiary
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1) Primary Structure The primary structure of a nucleic acid refers to the sequence of its nucleotide residues
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• In DNA, secondary structure pertains to the helix formed by the interaction of two DNA strands.
2) Secondary Structure
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Secondary Structure
In the most commonly found form of DNA, two single strands lie side by side in an antiparallel arrangement, with one running 5’ to 3’ and the other running 3’ to 5’.
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Secondary Structure The two DNA strands are held to one another by base pairing, hydrogen bonding between the bases attached to the sugar-phosphate backbone.
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Secondary Structure This base pairing is complementary. Adenine forms hydrogen bonds with Thymine and G forms hydrogen bonds with C.
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• For nucleic acids, tertiary structure refers to the overall three-dimensional shape.
• In DNA, tertiary structure arises from supercoiling, which involves double helices being twisted into tighter, more compact shapes.
3) Tertiary Structure
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3) Tertiary Structure
• Example: Plasmid DNA from Bacteria
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• When a eukaryotic cell is not actively dividing, its nucleus is occupied by chromatin, which is a compact tangle of DNA twisted around proteins known as histones.
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DNA, Chromosomes, and Genes • During cell division, chromatin organizes itself into chromosomes.
• Chromosome: A complex of proteins and DNA molecules that is visible during cell division.
Human X-Chromosome
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3) Tertiary
Structure
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• Each chromosome contains a different DNA molecule, and during cell mitosis (division) the DNA is replicated (duplicated) so that each new cell receives a complete copy.
• The number of chromosomes varies from
organism to organism. For example, a horse has 64 chromosomes (32 pairs), a cat has 38 (19 pairs), a mosquito has 6 (3 pairs), and a human has 46 chromosomes or 23 pairs.
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Denaturation • Nucleic acids can be denatured by the same
conditions that denature proteins.
• Depending on the amount of heat added, a double helix may unwind or even separate entirely, forming two single strands of DNA.
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• DNA is often called the blueprint for life because it contains all of the information necessary for making the proteins required by living things.
• This information is carried in the primary structure of DNA.
• To pass the information stored in DNA to a new generation of cells, DNA replication must take place.
DNA Replication
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• When DNA is replicated, each strand of the double helix serves as a template for the manufacture of a new strand of DNA.
DNA Replication
• In each of the daughter DNA strands, one strand from the parent DNA is present.
• This is called
semiconservative replication.
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• The production of new DNA is carried out by enzymes called DNA polymerases.
• DNA polymerase catalyzes the addition of deoxyribonucleotide residues to a growing DNA strand.
DNA Replication
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Detailed DNA Replication Illustration
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Bond Formation DNA Replication
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Proofreading and Repair • When adding new deoxyribonucleotides to a
growing DNA strand, DNA polymase inserts the wrong residue slightly less than once every 10,000 times.
• The enzyme proof-reads its work to see if the correct deoxyribonucleotide residue has been added; if a mistake has been made, DNA polymerase clips the residue and tries again.
• If proofreading does not catch the error, then other DNA repair enzymes are likely to catch the problem.
• After proofreading and repair, the error rate during replication falls to less than one in 1 billion bases.
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Nucleic Acids and Protein Production
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The following three processes are involved in duplication, transfer, and use of genetic information: 1) Replication: The process by which a replica, or
identical copy, of DNA is made when a cell divides.
Replication
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2) Transcription: The process by which the genetic messages contained in DNA are read and copied.
Replication Transcription
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3) Translation: The process by which the genetic messages carried by RNA are decoded and used to build proteins.
Replication Transcription
Translation
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RNA
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Structure of RNA • RNA structure is similar to DNA – both are sugar-phosphate polymers and both have nitrogen-containing bases attached – but there are 3 differences between them. 1) RNA contains a different monosaccharide residue
RNA DNA
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Structure of RNA 2) RNA contains the bases A, G, C, and U instead of
A, G, C, and T 3) RNA exists as a single strand instead of a double
strand
In RNA, uracil replaces thymine
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Function of RNA • DNA has only one kind of function- storing genetic information.
• By contrast, the different kinds of RNA perform different functions.
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The following three RNA make it possible for the encoded information carried by the DNA to be put to use in the synthesis of proteins.
1) Transfer RNA (tRNA) are the smallest of the three types (73-93 nucleotide residues), and they carry the correct amino acid to the site of protein synthesis.
2) Messenger RNA (mRNA) are of variable size, depending on the protein to be manufactured, and contain the information that specifies which protein should be made. This message is a sequence of RNA nucleotides that is complementary too the template strand of DNA.
3) Ribosomal RNAs (rRNA) are relatively long RNA strands (hundreds or thousands of nucleotide residues) that combine with proteins to form ribosomes, the multisubunit complexes in which protein synthesis takes place.
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The first step in using the information stored in DNA to produce proteins is transcription - using DNA as a template to make RNA.
Transcription
• Formation of messenger RNA (mRNA)
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Transcription of DNA to Produce mRNA
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The Genetic Code
• The ribonucleotide sequence in a mRNA chain is like a coded sentence that specifies the order in which amino acid residues should be joined to form a protein.
• Each word, or codon in the mRNA sentence is a series of three ribonucleotides that code for a specific amino acid. • For example, the series uracil-uracil-guanine (UUG)
on an mRNA chain is a codon directing incorporation of the amino acid leucine into a growing protein chain.
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Of the 64 possible three-base combinations in RNA, 60 code for specific amino acids, 1 codes for chain start and 3 code for chain termination.
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Translation
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Translation: Protein Synthesis • The synthesis of proteins
occur at ribosomes, which are outside the nucleus and within the cytoplasm of cells.
• The mRNA connects with the ribosome, and the amino acids attached to transfer RNA (tRNA) are delivered one by one.
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• Each tRNA carries an anticodon, a series of three bases that is complementary to a codon.
• The base pair between the codon and the anticodon ensures that the proper amino acid is added to a growing protein chain.
• Amino acids are matched with their respective tRNAs by synthetase enzymes.
Transfer RNA
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tRNA Structure
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Protein synthesis, or translation, takes place in three steps: 1) Initiation - a ribosome, mRNA, and tRNA come together to form a complex.
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Protein synthesis, or translation, takes place in three steps:
2) Elongation - amino acids are joined to the growing polypeptide chain.
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Protein synthesis, or translation, takes place in three steps:
3) Termination - the protein has been synthesized and the ribosome-mRNA-tRNA complex dissociates.
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Control of Gene Expression
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• The DNA of each living thing contains thousands of genes.
• These genes are not continually expressed (read to make proteins), because the production of unneeded proteins would be an inefficient use of resources.
• Control of gene expression prevents the manufacture of unwanted/unneeded proteins.
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Example: Control of the lac operon
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Mutation
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• Any permanent change in the primary structure of (sequence of nucleotide residues in) DNA is called a mutation.
• Mutations might involve the switching of one base pair for another or the addition or deletion of base pairs.
• Errors in replication and exposure to mutagens (mutation-causing agents, including x rays, UV radiation, nuclear radiation, and chemicals) are the common causes of mutations.
• When the mutations are in the sex cells (sperm or ovarian cells), the mutation can be inherited - genetic diseases.
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Human Chromosome Map of Inherited Diseases
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Recombinant DNA
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Gaining an understanding of the processes involved in DNA replication has given researchers the ability to create recombinant DNA, which contains DNA from two or more sources.
Recombinant DNA
Paul Berg was the first investigator to construct a recombinant-DNA molecule. Won 1980 Nobel Prize
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Recombinant DNA Recombinant DNA contains two or more DNA segments not found together in nature; made by cutting a gene out of one organism and recombining it into the genetic machinery of another organism. The protein encoded by the inserted gene is then synthesized by the target organism. Insulin has been made this way.
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Example: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) C. elegans
GFP from Jellyfish
Recombinant DNA
GFP in recombinant C. elegans
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Recombinant DNA
GFP E. coli bacteria
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Genomics: Using What We Know Genomics: The study of genes and their functions. • Genetically modified plants and animals • Gene Therapy • A Personal Genomic Survey • Bioethics: Concerned with the ethical, legal, and social implications of human genetic research
• Who should have access to personal genetic information? • Who should own and control genetic information? • When should genetic testing should be performed? • Should we re-engineer the genes we pass on to our children?
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End of Chapter 14 Lecture