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Nucleotides and nucleic acids
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Fig. 8-1, 8-19, 8-25
Nucleotides are the building blocks of nucleic acids
Nucleotides also play other important roles in the cell
NucleotideDNARNA
Roles of nucleotides
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•Building blocks of nucleic acids (RNA, DNA)•Analogous to amino acid role in proteins
•Energy currency in cellular metabolism (ATP: adenosine triphosphate)
•Allosteric effectors•Structural components of many enzyme
cofactors (NAD: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide)
Roles of nucleic acids
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• DNA contains genes, the information needed to synthesize functional proteins and RNAs
• DNA contains segments that play a role in regulation of gene expression (promoters)
• Ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) are components of ribosomes, playing a role in protein synthesis
• Messenger RNAs (mRNAs) carry genetic information from a gene to the ribosome
• Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) translate information in mRNA into an amino acid sequence
• RNAs have other functions, and can in some cases perform catalysis
Structure of nucleotides
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A phosphate group
Nucleotides have three characteristic components:
A nitrogenous base(pyrimidines or purine)
A pentose sugar
Base
Sugar
Acid
Basic Structure of Nucleic Acids
MonophosphateDiphosphateTriphosphate
AdenineGuanineThymineCytosineUracil
Nucleoside (Adenosine)
Nucleotide (Adenosine monophosphate, AMP)
Purine
Pyrimidine
核苷
核苷酸
磷酸
五環糖
Ribose,Deoxyribose
鹼基
1’
2’3’
4’
5’
Juan
g R
H (
200
4) B
Cb
asic
s
Structure of nucleosides
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Remove the phosphate group, and you have a nucleoside.
H
ATP is a nucleotide - energy currency
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G = -50 kJ/mol
triphosphateBase (adenine)
Ribose sugar
NAD is an important enzyme cofactor
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Fig. 13-15
NADH is a hydride transfer agent, or a reducing agent.Derived from Niacin
nicotinamide
Nucleotides play roles in regulation
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Fig. 6-30
Structure of nucleotides
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Below is the general structure of a nucleotide. The pentose sugar, the base, and the phosphate moieties all show variations among nucleotides.
Know this!
The ribose sugar
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Ribose
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• Ribose (-D-furanose) is a pentose sugar (5-membered ring).
• Note numbering of the carbons. In a nucleotide, "prime" is used (to differentiate from base numbering).
5
1
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4
Ribose
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• An important derivative of ribose is 2'-deoxyribose, or just deoxyribose, in which the 2' OH is replaced with H.
• Deoxyribose is in DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)
• Ribose is in RNA (ribonucleic acid).
• The sugar prefers different puckers in DNA (C-2' endo) and RNA C-3' endo).
The purine or pyrimidine base
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Pyrimidine and purine
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Know these!
Nucleotide bases in nucleic acids are pyrimidines or purines.
Pyrimidine and purine
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Nucleotide bases in nucleic acids are pyrimidines or purines.
Major bases in nucleic acids
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• Among the pyrimidines, C occurs in both RNA and DNA, but
• T occurs in DNA, and• U occurs in RNA
Know these!
• The bases are abbreviated by their first letters (A, G, C, T, U).
• The purines (A, G) occur in both RNA and DNA
Some minor bases
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Fig. 8-5
• 5-Methylcytidine occurs in DNA of animals and higher plants
• N6-methyladenosine occurs in bacterial DNA
Fig. 8-5
The phosphate
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Variation in phosphate group
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• Adenosine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP, or cAMP) is an important regulatory nucleotide.
• In hydrolysis of RNA by some enzymes, ribonucleoside 2',3'-cyclic monophosphates are isolable intermediates; ribonucleoside 3'-monophosphates are end products
• Another variation - multiple phosphates (like ATP).
cAMP
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Nucleotides in nucleic acids
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• Bases attach to the C-1' of ribose or deoxyribose• The pyrimidines attach to the pentose via the N-1
position of the pyrimidine ring• The purines attach through the N-9 position• Some minor bases may have different attachments.
Deoxyribonucleotides
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Fig. 8-4
2'-deoxyribose sugar
Deoxyribonucleotides are abbreviated (for example) A, or dA (deoxyA), or dAMP (deoxyadenosine monophosphate)
Phosphorylate the 5' position and you have a nucleotide(here, deoxyadenylate or deoxyguanylate)
with a base (here, a purine, adenine or guanine) attached to the C-1' position is a deoxyribonucleoside (here deoxyadenosine and deoxyguanosine).
The major deoxyribonucleotides
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Fig. 8-4
Ribonucleotides
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• The ribose sugar with a base (here, a pyrimidine, uracil or cytosine) attached to the ribose C-1' position is a ribonucleoside (here, uridine or cytidine).
• Phosphorylate the 5' position and you have a ribonucleotide (here, uridylate or cytidylate)
• Ribonucleotides are abbreviated (for example) U, or UMP (uridine monophosphate)
The major ribonucleotides
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Nucleotide nomenclature
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Nucleotide nomenclature
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Nucleic acids
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Nucleotide monomerscan be linked together via a phosphodiester linkage
formed between the 3' -OH of a nucleotide
and the phosphate of the next nucleotide.
Two ends of the resulting poly- or oligonucleotide are defined:The 5' end lacks a nucleotide at the 5' position,
and the 3' end lacks a nucleotide at the 3' end position.
Sugar-phosphate backbone
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Berg Fig. 1.1
• The polynucleotide or nucleic acid backbone thus consists of alternating phosphate and pentose residues.
• The bases are analogous to side chains of amino acids; they vary without changing the covalent backbone structure.
• Sequence is written from the 5' to 3' end: 5'-ATGCTAGC-3'• Note that the backbone is polyanionic. Phosphate groups
pKa ~ 0.
The bases can take syn or anti positions
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Sugar phosphate backbone conformation
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• Polynucleotides have unrestricted rotation about most backbone bones (within limits of sterics)
• with the exception of the sugar ring bond
• This behavior contrasts with the peptide backbone.
• Also in contrast with proteins, specific, predictable interactions between bases are often formed: A with T, and G with C.
• These interactions can be interstrand, or intrastrand.
Compare polynucleotides and polypeptides
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•As in proteins, the sequence of side chains (bases in nucleic acids) plays an important role in function.
•Nucleic acid structure depends on the sequence of bases and on the type of ribose sugar (ribose, or 2'-deoxyribose).
•Hydrogen bonding interactions are especially important in nucleic acids.
Interstrand H-bonding between DNA bases
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Fig. 8-11
Watson-Crick base pairing
DNA structure determination
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• Franklin collected x-ray diffraction data (early 1950s) that indicated 2 periodicities for DNA: 3.4 Å and 34 Å.
• Watson and Crick proposed a 3-D model accounting for the data.
DNA structure
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Fig. 8-15
• DNA consists of two helical chains wound around the same axis in a right-handed fashion aligned in an antiparallel fashion.
• There are 10.5 base pairs, or 36 Å, per turn of the helix.
• Alternating deoxyribose and phosphate groups on the backbone form the outside of the helix.
• The planar purine and pyrimidine bases of both strands are stacked inside the helix.
DNA structure
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• The furanose ring usually is puckered in a C-2' endo conformation in DNA.
• The offset of the relationship of the base pairs to the strands gives a major and a minor groove.
• In B-form DNA (most common) the depths of the major and minor grooves are similar to each other.
Base stacking in DNA
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Berg Fig. 1.4; 5.13
• C-G (red) and A-T (blue) base pairs are isosteric (same shape and size), allowing stacking along a helical axis for any sequence.
•Base pairs stack inside the helix.
DNA strands
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Fig. 8-16
• The antiparallel strands of DNA are not identical, but are complementary.
• This means that they are positioned to align complementary base pairs: C with G, and A with T.
• So you can predict the sequence of one strand given the sequence of its complement.
• Useful for information storage and transfer!
• Note sequence conventionally is given from the 5' to 3' end
B,A and Z DNA
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• B form - The most common conformation for DNA.
• A form - common for RNA because of different sugar pucker. Deeper minor groove, shallow major groove
• A form is favored in conditions of low water.
• Z form - narrow, deep minor groove. Major groove hardly existent. Can form for some DNA sequences; requires alternating syn and anti base configurations.
36 base pairsBackbone - blue;Bases- gray
Nucleic acids
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RNA has a rich and varied structure
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Watson-Crick base pairs(helical segments;Usually A-form). Helix is secondary structure.Note A-U pairs in RNA.
DNA can form structures like this as well.
RNA displays interesting tertiary structure
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Single-stranded RNA right-handed helix
T. thermophila intron,A ribozyme (RNA enzyme)(1GRZ)
Hammerhead ribozyme(1MME)
Yeast tRNAPhe
(1TRA)
The mother of all biomolecules
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1ffk
Large subunit of the ribosome(proteins at least)