Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nucleic acids
The Four classes of macro molecules
Monosaccharide
Carbohydrate monomer
Polymers
Lipids do not form
Fatty acid
lipid monomer
amino acid
Protein monomer
Creates bond and produces water as a product
Dehydration reaction
Uses water to break bond
Hydrolysis
CnH2nOn
General Glucose structure
Philic Head: Carboxyl group, Phobic tail: hydrocarbon chain
Parts of fatty acid
Draw glycosidic bond
1 = Monosaccharide, 2 = Disaccharide, 3-10 = Oligosaccharide, Many = polysaccharide
# of sugars = ??????
Cellulose, Chitin, Starch
Three examples of a polysaccharides
Has both a hydrophobic and hydrophilic region
Amphipathic
Strach, Cellulose, and Chitin
Examples of Polysaccharides
Unsaturated has a C=C bond known as a kink
Saturated vs Unsaturated
A-T: 2
G-C: 3
# of hydrogen bonds between A-T and G-C
Purine
Double ring nucleotide =
Pyrimidine
Single ring nucleotide
Draw an amino acid
Draw a peptide bond
0.5-10, 1-20
P10 and P20 volume range
20-200, 200-1000
P200 and P1000 volume range
D = M/V
Density equation
Not expressed in mRNA
Intron
expressed and codes for protein
Exon
Does not code for proteins but does regulate gene expression
Noncoding DNA
Codes for protein
Coding DNA
short repetitive interspersed elements
SINE
Alu 1 restriction enzyme recognition site
Alu name comes from
C16 pv92 and 300bps long
Alu location and bp size
Has - chalex beads that grab metal ions like Mg2+ that are required as cofactors for enzyme like DNase (in Lysosome) which breaks down DNA.
PV92: Instagene’s purpose
In vitro, Amplyfies section of DNA
PCR is a ______ technique that ______
Kary Miulus
PCR was invented by?
Forward primer
PCR: 5’ to 3’
Reverse primer
PCR: 3’ to 5’
Denaturation: 1 min at 90-95 C, separates DNA strands
Annealing: 45 seconds at 50-55 C primers attach and make complementary strands
Extension: 2 minutes at 75 and DNA polymerase adds dNTP’s to the strand
Three steps of PCR and simple explaination
Taq, Yellowstone, Thermus aquatics
PCR: DNA polymerase is known as _________ and is acquired from?
Size only
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis differentiates using __________. In DNA
Cathode
DNA is attracted to which part of the electrophoresis machine
Fred Sanger
Sanger Sequencing was invented by ________
with colored ddNTP’s which lack a free 3’ OH
How are things labeled
Target DNA, 2 Primers, DNA polymerase, nucleotides (dNTP’s), Mg 2. 5 Total
Ingredients of PCR
TBE: High capacity but slow migration and lower than 2kb, TAE: fast migration and higher than 2kb but low capacity.
TBE vs TAE
encodes for green fluorescent protein
pGLO component: GFP
Origin of replication
pGLO component: ori
β-lactamase which breaks down ampicillin
pGLO component: bla
Promotes RNA polymerase when bound to AraC-arabinose
pGLO component: pBAD promoter
codes for protein that binds to pBAD promoter which additionally need arabinose and then expressed GFP
pGLO component: araC
taking genetic material from the environment
transformation
Foreign genetic material given by a virus or viral vector
transduction
genetic material transfer from bacteria to bacteria through direct contact
conjugation
foreign DNA introduce to eu.by physical and chemical means in a lab
transfection
growing using phenotype to distinguish
Screening
Allows growth only for selected bacteria
Selection
Remove alkaline environment allowing plasmid renaturation
What is the purpose of the neutralization buffer?
260
DNA absorbs light at which wavelength?
ampicillin
To ensure that only the bacteria transformed with the plasmid grew in the culture media, the bacteria were grown in the presence of ____________
beer lamberts law that concentration is directly linked to concentration
The principle of Nanodrop is
destabilizing proteins and nucleic acids
What is the purpose of lysis buffer during plasmid isolation
Attract target DNA
What is the purpose of the silica column?
Identification/characterization of gene causing a mutant phenotype observes the phenotype first and is unbiased.
forward genetics
observation of phenotype by purposefully disrupting a gene
reverse genetic
calcium chloride treatment causing plasmid to attach to the cell wall, heating in a water bath to open pores to allow entry
pGLO transfer process
Gel red
What chemical is used in lab to visualize the DNA in an agarose gel under UV light?
Differentiate between G- and G+ microbes
Principle of a gram stain
Lps, Outer membrane, thin peptioglycan layer, inner membrane
G- Bacteria Structure
pink
G- color after stain
Thick peptidoglycan layer and plasmas membrane
G+ Bacteria structure
Purple
G+ color
stains them purple, 30-60 sec
Crystal Violet
Attaches the crystal violet to cell wall, 30-60 sec
Iodine
Washes stain from G- walls, 3 sec
Decolorizor
stains g- pinks, 30 seconds
safranin
Maintaining pure culture + isolating from a mixed culture
Principle of Bacterial Streaking
Dillutuion of the # microbes within a volume
Principle of Serial Dilution
1/10
1 mL into 9 mL dilution factor?
1/6
5 mL into 25 mL dilution factor?
1/400
Current Dilution factor: 1/4 Previous Dilution factors: 1/2, 1/5/ 1/10 What is the final dilution factor?
Salt contamination, 1.8 for DNA and 2.0 for RNA
Nanodrop: 260/230 ratio meaning and ideal value(s)
Protein contamination, ~2.0 lower than 1.8 is heavy contamination
Nanodrop: 260/280 ratio meaning and ideal value(s)
A sequence that is read the same backwards as forwards
What is a palindromic sequence
Enzyme that does not produce a overhang
Restriction Digestion: Blunt
double stranded DNA
Restriction enzymes only cut ________
A natural defense in bacteria against bacteriophages
Restriction enzyme acts as?
Annex V: stains Phosphatidylserine (PS) which is located in the cytosolic part of the membrane
Propidium Iodide: stains DNA and can only enter if the membrane integrity is low
FC: Apoptosis Staining
Necrosis
FC: Apoptosis Staining PI only
Early Apoptosis
FC: Apoptosis Staining Annex V only
Late Apoptosis
Flow Cytometry: Apoptosis Staining both
Three, Fluidics, Optics, Electronics
Flow cytometer is composed of [A] main subsystems. These are [B], [C] and [D].
0.2-50 µm
What is the range of size of cells of particles that is suitable for flow cytometric analysis?
Route the laser beams to the flow cell for interrogation
FC: The purpose of the excitation optics is to:
Decrease the flow rate or the sample pressure
FC:What can be done to improve data resolution?
Maintain the sample core in the center of the sheath fluid
FC: Hydrodynamic focusing is used to
sample Core
FC: What is the name given to the portion of the fluid stream where the cells are located?
places them in a single file line
FC: The purpose of the fluidics system in a flow cytometer is?
Sample core, Fluidics
FC: The particle suspension is injected into _________________ within the _________________.
light
FC: When fluorescent compounds absorb light energy and then release excess energy, they emit ____________________.
Cell Size
FC: FSC is proportional to:
complexity or granularity
FC: SSC is proportional to the ___________ or _____________ of the cell
Forward, Inside
FC: Correlated measurements of both _______________ and _____________ can allow differentiation of cells types in a heterogeneous cell population.