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Welcome to Introduction to Bioinformatics Friday, 1 September Introduction to Molecular Biology DNA to protein. Transcription. Translation. Replication. The “Central Dogma” of Molecular Biology. Term coined by Francis Crick in 1956 to describe the flow of information in the cell. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Welcome toIntroduction to Bioinformatics
Introduction to Molecular BiologyDNA to protein
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Molecular biology forms part of a long intellectual tradition
• c. 350 BCE - Aristotle begins the Western tradition of natural philosophy • 1664 - Robert Hook coins the term “cell” in his treatise Micrographia• 1676 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria, later spermatozoa• 1735 - Carl Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae lays the foundations for taxonomy• 1859 - Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species• 1860s - Louis Pasteur disproves abiogenesis and develops the “Germ theory”• 1866 - Gregor Mendel describes the “inheritance of traits” in peas.• 1868 - Ernst Haeckel postulates that the nucleus responsible for heredity• 1869 - Friedrich Miescher isolates a crude nucleic acid preparation• 1880s - Cytologists work out the details of mitosis, meiosis and fertilization
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Molecular biology forms part of a long intellectual tradition
• 1903 - Walter Sutton proposes a chromosomal theory of heredity• 1908 - Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that genes can mutate• 1909 – Archibald Garrod proposes the “gene-enzyme” hypothesis• 1915 – Morgan and colleagues publish linkage maps of D. melanogaster• 1927 – H.J. Muller and L.J. Stadler show that radiation can induce mutation• 1928 - Fredrick Griffith demonstrates genetic transformation• 1931 - Barbara McClintock proves genetic recombination – “crossing over” • 1944 - Avery, MacLeod & McCarty show that DNA carries genetic information• 1940s - The “modern synthesis” - E. Mayr, T. Dobzhansky, & J. Huxley• 1949 – Erwin Chargaff formulates “Chargaff’s rules” of DNA composition• 1952 - Hershey and Chase demonstrate that DNA is the genetic material• 1953 - James Watson and Francis Crick describe the double helix of DNA• 1957 – Vernon Ingram - genes determine the sequence of amino acids • 1958 - Matt Meselson and Frank Stahl prove semiconservative replication
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Molecular biology forms part of a long intellectual tradition
1958 - Arthur Kornberg discovers DNA polymerase 1960 – Sam Weiss and Jerard Hurwitz independently discover RNA polymerase 1960s - Genetic code cracked by Crick, Marshall Nirenberg, Har Gobind Khorana, etc. 1961 - Charles Yanofsky & Sydney Brenner show colinearity of DNA & protein 1965 - Holley and Zamir determine the structure of a tRNA
20xx – Your contribution!!
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The “Central Dogma” of Molecular Biology
DNA RNA Protein
Term coined by Francis Crick in 1956 to describe the flowof information in the cell
Replication
Transcription
Translation
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Information flow is compartmentalized
Translation
DNA
Pre-mRNA
mRNA
protein
mRNAmRNA
Protein
Transcription
Processing
Export
Decay
Decay
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Frederick Griffiths demonstrates “Transformation” of a heritable character in the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae
What is the nature of the Gene?
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Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod & Maclyn McCartyfirst show that DNA is the “genetic principle”
What is the nature of the Gene?
Enzymesused todegradeproteins
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The Hershey-Chase experiment confirmsthat DNA is the stuff of heredity
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Erwin Chargaff and his rules
1.Ratio of nucleotides depends on species2.A=T and G=C no matter the organism
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What is the structure of DNA?
1952
Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins produce X-ray diffraction images of DNA crystals that suggested that DNA must have some helical arrangement
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What is the structure of DNA?
1953
Francis Crick and James Watson put together all of the clues and correctlydeduce that DNA is a Double Helix
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DNA base pairing occurs through hydrogen bonds
A:T pairs: 2 bonds
G:C pairs: 2 bonds
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The double helix strongly suggested that DNA replicationmight proceed by a “semiconservative” process
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The Meselson-Stahl experiment argues for strand separation during DNA replication
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Genes control the amino acid sequence of proteins
•1957 – Vernon Ingram shows that sickle cell haemoglobin varies from wild type by the substitution of one amino acid
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Genes control the amino acid sequence of proteins
Alteration of amino acid sequence is also observed in all other hereditary anaemias!
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DNA cannot directly specify the sequenceof amino acids in proteins
• Protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells known to take place in the cytoplasm
• There must therefore be a SECOND information containing molecule that gets its specificity from DNA, but then moves to the cytoplasm
• Attention immediately focuses on RNA – was easy to imagine that it could be produced from a DNA template
•Torborn Caspersson and Jean Brachet demonstrated that RNA was mostly in the cytoplasm
Jean Brachet (1909-1998)
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Discovery of mRNA
• T2 is a bacteriophage that infects E. coli
• Completely shuts down normal cellular transcription. Only viral protein is made
• T2 RNA always has the same composition as T2 DNA
• T2 carries none of its own RNA
• 32P is incorporated into RNA made after T2 infection
• Only about 3-5% of cellular RNA is messenger RNA!
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The case for RNA
Chemically very similar to DNA
Hydroxyl groupMissing methylgroup in uracil
relative to thymine
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Easy to imagine RNA being produced from a DNA template
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There must be a molecular machinethat makes RNA from a DNA template
• Jerard Hurwitz and Sam Weiss independently discover an enzyme that will only make RNA in the presence of DNA.
• The enzyme uses ATP, GTP, CTP, and UTP as precursors
POOR GUYS!
1959 Nobel prize was already awarded to Severo Ochoafor what turned out later to be the WRONG ENZYME!
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RNA Polymerase is a molecular machine that carries out transcription
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RNA is synthesised in the nucleusbut travels to the cytoplasm
Cells pulse-labelled with 3H coupled cytidine
T = 15 minutes T = ~90 minutes
D.M. Prescott
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Ribosomes are the site of protein synthesis
ribosomes studding the endoplastic reticulum
Shown using radio labelled amino acids in conjunction with ultracentrifugation to isolateDifferent cell fractions. Where does the radioactivity end up at various times?
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Ribosomes and associated rRNAs are the factories for protein synthesis
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Crick’s adaptor hypothesis
• Can folded RNA act directly as the template for protein synthesis?
• Seems unlikely:• the nucleosides chemically want to react with water soluble groups• but many amino acids are polar• no clear way to discriminate chemically similar amino acids
Crick proposes that an adaptor molecule must fit between RNAand the incoming amino acids, but its nature is unknown
Incoming amino acid
Adaptor molecule
RNA
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Crick’s adaptors (tRNAs) are themselves RNA molecules
• Self-folding by complementary base pairs gives a structure with several functional domains
• Account for ~10% of cellular RNAabundance
• Typically includes several modified, non-standard bases.
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Mahlon Hoagland Paul Zamecnik
Zamecnick and Hoagland discoveraminoacyl synthetases
Enzymes that added an adaptor (that we now know to be tRNA) to amino acids prior to their incorporation in proteins
It turns out these tRNAs are Crick’s proposed adaptors
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Translation proceeds througha tRNA intermediate
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Nature of the genetic code
• Obvious early on most likely a triplet code in order to code 20 amino acids:
• 4 x 4 nucleotides can specify 42 = 16 amino acids• 4 x 4 x 4 nucleotides can specify 43 = 64 amino acids
• Code must be redundant
• Not overlapping – Sydney Brenner’s thought experiment
• Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich Matthaei showed that a homopolymer (UUUUUU…. etc. ) produced a poly-phenylalanine protein
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Example RNA with two repeating units RNAs with two repeating units:
(UCUCUCU → UCU CUC UCU) produced a polypetide consisting of alternating Serine and CUC codes for Leucine
RNAs with three repeating units:
(UACUACUA → UAC UAC UAC, or ACU ACU ACU, or CUA CUA CUA) produced three different strings of amino acids
RNAs with four repeating units including UAG, UAA, or UGA, produced only dipiptides and tripeptides thus revealing that UAG, UAA and UGA are stop codons.
Khorana's synthetic RNA approachto cracking the genetic code
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The genetic code is (almost)universal
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Amino acids fall into five functional categories
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Most commonLeu Gly Ser
Least commonTrp Met His
Study Question 11Degeneracy and frequency of amino acids
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Study Question 12Single mutation from AGA
Silent: |
Hydrophilic/Hydrophilic: |
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Study Question 12Single mutation from AGA
Silent: |
Hydrophilic/Hydrophilic: |
Conservative: |
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Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic: |
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Study Question 12Single mutation from AGA
Silent: |
Hydrophilic/Hydrophilic: |
Conservative: |
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Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic: |
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Other: |
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Proteins have four levels of structure
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The primary structure of proteins is determined bypeptide bonds between amino acids
Formation of this bond is associated with a small +ve G
Protein synthesis depends on coupled reactions!
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Secondary structure - the alpha helix
Alpha helical conformation is stabilised by hydrogen bonding
H bonds
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Secondary structure – beta sheets
Parallel configuration
Antiparallel configuration
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The enzyme acetylcholinesterase bound to acetylcholine
Secondary structures combineto determine tertiary structure
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Proteins combine to form quaternary structures
Collagen Haemoglobin
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Interactions (usually with a small molecule) can alter the shape and activity of an enzyme
Allosteric interactions
+ve -ve
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Enzymes lower the activation energiesassociated with biochemical reactions
G
Typical energy of activation is 20-30 kcal/mol
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Eukaryotic mRNA must often must be splicedin order to produce a mature transcript
Exons often correspond to functional protein domains and alternative splicing can give rise to variant proteins