Gene Regulation (Prokaryotic)

Meridiploid

Auxotrophy - selection and screening

Gene regulation via operons

Cis and trans acting elements

reporter systems for measuring gene regulation

  • posirive regulation byCRP cAMP

problem solving for lac and trp repressors

Csome structure and Gene regulation

cytogenetic mapping

methods for staining and fluorescent - FISH?

telomere properties (basics)

Gene regulation via chromosome strucutre

euchromatin and heterochromatin

  • euchromatin must be remodeled. it is not being transcribed; it is able to be transcribed but it is wound up by chromatin. Euchromatin is easily remodeled in order to be transcribed.

PEV method

histone modifying enzymes

16q 23.1

16 is the chromosome, q is the long arm, 23.1 is the banding pattern.

Eukaryotic Gene Regulation

Cis and trans acting elements. dont go into the details.

What does it mean when something binds to an enhancer element? what does that do to gene expression? what does it do to chromatin? Does it bind to the mediator complex - and what will that cause RNA polymerase to do?

TC factors have a DNA binding domain and a protein interaction domain, and the dimerization domain.

After initiation

post transcriptional basic

Genetic Variation

Classes of DNA variants

Methods for testing genetic variation

PCR, Variation of PCR,

PCR and SSR for genetic testing (problem solving)

Application of genetic variation

positional cloning method

problem solving example

  • 17,18 would mean one from each parent

SNPs vs SSRs vs CNVs

SNP are single nucleotide polymorphism. A single nucleotide is different.

InDels are insertions or deletions. Most of them come from a double stranded break.

SSR are single sequence repeat

CNV is copy number variant. shows up as extra bands in a PCR (normally you have 2 copies of an allele)

Final Review

Section 1

phenotypic crosses. there will be extensions of mendel, such as multiple alleles.

meiosis and fertilization with genetic crosses

inheritance via meiosis and mitosis

chromosome inheritance

There will be a question about writing out a pedigree to figure out what is going on based on the information given.

Whats a test cross what is it used for?

  • which provess separates identical dsDNA?

Calculating probabilities in dihybrid crosses

you should know linkage from all 3 sections. Section 1 is that phenotypes are inherited. section 2 is pertaining to DNA recombination. they are linked because they are on the same piece of DNA, but you could get crossing over. Section 3: tracked genetic variation. we can track genetic variations through SNPs, InDels. We dont need phenotype anymore.

Section 2

relationship between Genetic inheritance and chemistry of DNA

dont have to memorize the mutations, should recognize the mutations we have

molecular mechanism do convert DNA to cellular function: transcription and Translation

analyze genes and gene structure for molecular and ohenotypic effects

dont need to know sigma factor shit

DNA Calculations

TATA-A/T-A-A/T this equals roughy 1/4000 chance, how?

this region would not be useful for finding transcribed regions in genes.

23 chromosomes, 3 billion nucleotides, 20,000 genes

during dna replication, 92 strands of DNA are copied.

promoter is never part of the transcript, so its never the first part of the mRNA transcript.

Section 3

gene reg

same DNA w different phenotypes is gene regulation

highlight experimental systems, model organisms

will probably see an operon question but not very hard

trans acting cis acting factors