advanced phis

  • What enzymes are

Proteins that catalyze the thousands of chemical reactions that constitute metabolism

  • Steps in sliding filament theory 

  1. Ach release at neuromuscular junction (before anything happens)

  2. Travels down t-tubule to sarcoplasmic reticular 

  3. Ca++ is released from sarcoplasmic reticulum (first considered step)

  4. Ca binds with troponin on actin filament 

  5. Tropomyosin is moved off of active sites (for myosin head to bind)

  6. Myosin head binds to active site

  7. Power STROKE + muscle contract

What powers all of this? ATP

What enzyme causes ATP? Actomyosin ATPase 

  • Protein functions

Enzymes that catalyze body chemical reactions, receptor molecules that bind specific substrates, transport molecules that move substances within the blood, contractile proteins in muscle, aid in disease protection

  • How an enzyme acts as a catalyst

They lower the energy barrier to a reaction so that the reaction takes place at a lower temp; convert substrates to products 

  • Multiple things about creatine kinase

    • Has extremely high activity in PCr

      • CK exceeds all other enzymes in muscle

      • Ensures ATP regeneration is rapid

      • Found in cells where ATP is consumed and produced

    • How does CK mark muscle damage?

      • Damage to cell releases CK into blood

      • Heart muscle damage causes appearance of cardiac isozyme of CK in the blood

  • Energy changes in reversible and irreversible reactions

    • Irreversible reactions-all substrate is converted to product

      • Large energy change

      • Non-equilibrium reaction

      • Less common

    • reversible reactions-establishes equilibrium with the ratio of the product concentration to substrate concentration (equilibrium constant)

      • Small energy change

      • Equilibrium reaction

      • Product is also substrate

      • More common

  • Difference in essential and nonessential amino acids

9 essential amino acids cannot be made by the body and must be gotten through the diet, 11 nonessential amino acids can be synthesized by the body

  • About diet specifically 

  • Only look at slide

  • What transcription is

Copying process of genes

  • What an isozyme is 

Enzymes that catalyze a given reaction in different tissues

  • 4 products of metabolism

CO2, H20, ATP, heat

  • How oxidative phosphorylation is measured

Oxygen consumption

  • What competitive inhibitors are

Resemble normal substrate and bind to the active site, but cannot be changed by the enzyme into a product; acts as mimics; compete with normal substrates for a place on the active site of an enzyme

  • Several questions about Acetyl coA

Involved in etc

Pyruvate must be converted to it to go through glycolysis

  • Role of vitamin B in metabolism

8 B vitamins are necessary because they form the basic components for coenzymes

**Serves as a cofactor in many metabolic reactions (he said) - nvm he said wrong… it’s coenzyme

  • Oxidation of carbs and lipids and ATP produced by each (comparison)

Oxidation of Cho produces more atp than oxidation of fat

  • Buffers

Chemicals that resist changes in the pH of a solution; aid in maintenance of body pH through absorbing protons or reducing the effects of OH- ions; usually consists of a weak acid and its salt 

  • Bicarbonate inside the body **with TMI details

  • If you want to give yourself competitive advantage take antacid 

  • Creatine and protein synthesis

    • ***creatine supplementation does not independently increase protein synthesis following exercise (long term effects are not clear)

  • Feedback inhibition 

    • Inhibition of an allosteric enzyme by a product of its reaction or a product of a pathway in which the enzyme participates

    • Help regulate metabolic pathways by sensing an oversupply of product

  • Role of ATP

Used to drive the energy involving processes in the body

Used constantly and regenerate at the same time

  • Anabolism and catabolism

Anabolism =building up of something

Catabolism =breakdown of something 

  • Zwitterion form

Carboxylate group + ammonium group + variable part (side chain)

Structure of an amino acid as it would appear at a pH of 7.0, contains both a positively and negatively charged group (ammonium group instead of amino)

  • Appearance of an amino acid at a neutral pH (has both positive and negative charge) - said there's not much more to say about it

  • Has no net charge,it is isoelectric

  • What makes up the primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary structure

Primary = sequence of amino acids

Secondary = spatial path taken by the 3 elements of the peptide backbone (shape)

Tertiary =Overall 3D arrangement of a polypeptide chain, including the secondary structure and any non-ordered interactions involving AA residues that are far apart

Quaternary =Refers to the arrangement of the individual subunits w/ respect to each other

  • Causes of acidosis and alkalosis 

    • Acidosis - severe exercise, diabetes, starvation

    • Alkalosis - hyperventilation at rest, vomiting uncontrollably

  • Entropy, exergonic, endergonic, terms on end of last section

    • Entropy

      • Measure of energy dispersal

      • ΔS

      • Processes occur by themselves if they have a positive ΔS (entropy)

    • Enthalpy

      • Change in energy of the reactants when they are turned into products

      • Measured as total heat energy change

    • Endergonic

      • Free energy is consumed

      • ΔG is positive +

      • Can’t occur by itself

    • Exergonic

      • Free energy is released

      • ΔG is negative -

    • Free Energy Change

      • Maximal energy from a process that can be harnessed to do something useful

      • ΔG

    • Endothermic

      • Can only occur with energy input

    • Exothermic

      • Heat energy released

      • ΔH is negative -

  • What a myofibril is

    • Muscle cells

    • Much larger than average cells

  • Enzyme bindings to active sites

Often represents both the binding and catalytic site

  • Parts of an amino acid

Amino group + carboxyl group + alpha carbon + variable part (side chain)

  • Equilibrium

    • When a reaction reaches equilibrium, the substrates and products are constantly flowing between each side of the reaction

    • At this point, nothing happens and no energy is released

    • You’d be dead

  • Bronsted lowry definition for an acid and base

Acid = proton donor

Base = proton acceptor 

  • Several hormones (lactate dehydrogenase - example - know what it does)

some hormones are peptides 

glucagon

insulin

growth hormone

  • Lactate dehydrogenase helps you convert glucose to ATP in anaerobic conditions (converts pyruvate to lactate)

  • Adenylate kinase = catalyzes ATP production + AMP

  • AMP deaminase = irreversibly deaminates (removes the amino group from) the base of AMP, producing ammonia 

  • Fast/slow twitch fibers 

    • Type I

      • Slow

      • MHC I

    • Type II A

      • Fast

      • MHC II A

    • Type II X

      • Faster

      • MHC II X

    • Type II B

      • Fastest

      • MHC II B

  • Polarity

    • Amino Acids are primarily found in a polar environment because they are in an aqueous medium

    • 9/20 amino acids are nonpolar and hydrophobic

  • Oxidation/reduction

Oxidation = something loses electrons

Reduction = something gains electrons 

  • The fuel for each metabolism reaction (what is used in glycolysis, creatine phosphate, oxidation - example)

Glycolysis (anaerobic) = carbs/glucose

Creatine phosphate = creatine phosphate 

Oxidative phosphorylation = lipids

  • Glycolysis and use of either glucose or glycogen

If glycogen is the starting substance 3 atp are produced, if glucose is then 2 atp are produced

6/8 SA

  • Oxidation and reduction (difference)

    • LEO the lion says GER

    • When something is oxidized, something else is reduced

    • Seen in ETC; transporting molecules from one molecule to another until it ends on oxygen

    • Oxygen is reduced (final electron acceptor); electrons come from NADH2; thing that is passing them is oxidized; series of redox reaction; plays a significant role is oxidative phosphorylation 

    • Oxidation: something loses electrons

    • Reduction: something gains electrons (charge goes down b/c electrons are neg)

  • Lactate formation

    • Lactate is produced when glucose is broken down for energy in the absence of oxygen 

      • Pyruvate to lactate =  anaerobic glycolysis 

    • For low intensity exercise, little lactate will be formed, but for high intensity, the concentration in the muscle and blood will increase over time

    • Lactate is always formed even at rest

  • Effectors 

    • positive and negative effectors

    • Effectors: control rxn rates/activity of enzyme

Positive require smaller concentrations of substrates than normal to maintain rxn velocity

Ex: turn on when exercise

Negative require larger concentrations of substrates than normal to maintain reaction velocity

Ex: turn off/slow down by adding negative eff.

  • Temperature and reaction rates

    • Increase in temperature speeds up reaction rates until a certain point

    • Heating too much disrupts conformation and decreases enzyme activity

** Need both of above

  • Blood lactate concentration and exercise intensity

for low intensity exercise, little lactate will be formed, but for higher intensities, the concentration in muscle and blood will increase over time

  • Active transport and facilitated diffusion

Active transport = requires ATP, against concentration gradient

Facilitated diffusion = does not require energy, down concentration gradient using a specific carrier

Facilitated diffusion is a substance crossing a membrane down its concentration gradient with the aid of a specific carrier, and does not require energy. Active transport is across a membrane against the concentration gradient so that energy is needed. 

  • Reaction velocity 

    • Potential question: What would influence reaction velocity? temperature, presence of enzymes, substrates, products, pH

    • Reaction velocity: how fast the reaction takes place

    • Reaction velocity and reaction rate are interchangeable 

Velocity is proportional to enzyme concentration

pH: above or below optimal lowers rate

Temperature: slight increase increases rate; too much decreases enzyme activity


  • Aerobic and anaerobic glycolysis 

    • Aerobic: when private enters the mitochondria and gets completely broken down to h2o and co2 (requires o2 for final breakdown of pyruvate)

    • Anaerobic: occurs when pyruvate is converted to lactate

From slides: Anaerobic vs. Aerobic Glycolysis 

  • Anaerobic glycolysis occurs when pyruvate is converted to lactate (ATP is formed without the need for O2) 

  • Aerobic glycolysis occurs when pyruvate enters the mitochondrion and gets completely broken down to H2O and CO2 (pyruvate breakdown does require O2)

  • Pyruvate can be generated at a faster rate than it can be oxidized in mitochondria