from strings to blobs
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How?. Why?. From strings to blobs. What matters today?. How do we go from the ‘ ticker tape ’ of an mRNA to a machine ? machine = 3D object that does stuff Who shapes proteins into their shapes? Terminology: ‘ folding ’ - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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From strings to blobs
From strings to blobs
How? Why?
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2What matters today?
• How do we go from the ‘ticker tape’ of an mRNA to a machine?
• machine = 3D object that does stuff
• Who shapes proteins into their shapes? Terminology: ‘folding’
• How specific amino acids and protein shapes give rise to operational machines that perform body tasks
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3From there to here• Week 2: How DNA can ‘mean’
anything; how it can pass that meaning on (replication)
• Week 3: How DNA can send out a ‘message’ (transcription); how that ‘message’ can be ‘translated’ into amino acids
• Now: How a string of amino acids is formed into a functional shape
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Question AuthorityTo your pencils, index cards & oil-water mixes!
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5Ooey gooey rich & chewy inside...
• Protein folding, oil not mixing with water, and membrane formation all reflect the same principle
• In protein folding, the constraint is that the individual units are all attached to a pair of neighbors
• Many proteins need no further ‘instruction’ than their sequence & water to correctly assume their superhero identity
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6Meet the building blocks
• There are only about 5 ways molecular surfaces can be
• What are they?
• Amino acid easter egg hunt--find the one(s) that...
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Interesting Amino Acids
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tc6RserFvI - proline
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niMy1AACcfM - cysteine
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Amino_Acids.svg
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Your turnYou ‘fold’ a protein: ProFolder (Bio181L_Go)
Show me each solution (Q. 3)Leave the 2nd one on screen
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10Profolder features• BioGo program
• Destinations (lower right) => Folding
• Top: amino acid string
• Squares: places amino acids could go. Note ‘Undo last’ button
• Two spots--use one to improve upon what you did in the other
• Bottom: note that when you mouseOver an amino acid, it ’s structure & ‘feel’ are shown
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11How does yours compare? 11
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12Other ‘rules’ of folding
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Images of 3D
Q. 4
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Life’s blood:
Hemoglobin
Life’s blood:
Hemoglobin
How? Why?
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15Hemoglobin: overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXOBJEXxNEo&feature=related
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16Scale & role
Image source: http://www.myoptumhealth.com/portal/ADAM/item/Sickle+cell+disease
Small capillary(blood vessel)
Tetramer:4 protein chains
(~145 amino acids)
Oxygen molecule2 atoms
Heme:C34H32O4N4Fe
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171-2-3-4 protein!
http://compbio.pbworks.com/w/page/16252897/Introduction-and-Basic-Molecular-Biology
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18Hemoglobin: what is it?
Image source: http://themedicalbiochemistrypage.org/hemoglobin-myoglobin.html
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19What you’ll learn today
• How hemoglobin’s amino acid sequence generates its structure
• Why hemoglobin is a tetramer (gang of four)
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Todays assignments
30% Worksheet: easter egg hunt
60% points hemoglobin tutorial
10% points hemoglobin mini-research
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21Hemoglobin tutorial
• Turn OFF Wi-Fi; QUIT safari (not close window)
• Read...
• the instructions on each question...
• the instructions on the webpage...
• all the words of each question...
• Ask yourself: will you be the monkeys at the typewriter, or Shakespeare?
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Group Names• 1 – Jaguar1
• 2 – Turtle1
• 3 – Gazelle1
• 4 – Lizard1
• 5 – Shark1
• 6 – Whale1
• 7 – Coral1
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23How does it feel?**If you don’t know who Bob Dylan is, shoot one of us now
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What specifically would it take for...
• A lysine to become a glycine?
• To your codon tables!
• How often is that going to happen?
• What codon position had change? What are all the possible codon changes?
• Keep this in mind for genetic disease 2
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26More on your disease!
• See the calendar for links
• Take home for homework if you do not finish in class
• Submit via D2L dropbox 10 pm night before lab
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Turn in
• Mini research projects – 1 per group
• Genetic disease if you finish
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Research Proposals• 1 per group
• Questions: come up with a few, think back to last week, what did you observe and ask questions
• Hypotheses: more than one, “this is happening because…”
• Experiments: detailed, how will you test this phenomenon, step by step
• Materials: be explicit, we need to let prep room know what we need
• Analysis – what data will you gather and how will you get it? Methodological plan, observing and reporting what you saw is not enough
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