Molecular STEP 1 USMLE (Biochemistry)

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Inactive, more dense (darkly) and formed by methylation histones.
Heterochromatin

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TermDefinition
Inactive, more dense (darkly) and formed by methylation histones.
Heterochromatin
A mutation in this promoter prevents the binding of GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS
TATA box
Only this structure has its own DNA without Histones in its structure.
Mitochondria
Its DNA is code for components of the electron transport chain.
Mitochondria
Chromatin Region that it's active, less dense, can be transcriptional and its formed by acetylation of histones.
Euchromatin
Structure of the chromatin that has the appearance of "beads on a string".
Histones
Protein that links the DNA to the histones.
H1 protein
Bind enhancer to promote transcription and can be upstream or downstream
Activators
Binds silencers to decrease transcription.
Repressor
5-Fluorouracil îs a drug used in chemotherapy, produce severe gastrointestinal symptoms and inhibits the metabolic pathway of...
Pyrimidine
Allopurinol used for Systemic lupus erythematosus inhibits the enzyme:
Xantine Oxidase
Azathioprine is a prodrug that produce 6-mecaptopurine who inhibits the pathway...
novo purine synthesis
When you use Allopurinol and Azathioprine you produce bone marrow suppression that it's causes for an accumulation of...
6-mercaptopurine
Development delay, self-mutilation (hand/lio biting or smashing), orange urine crystals, hiperuricemia and there are a deficiency of guanine and GMP
Lesch Nyhan Syndrome
The Lesch Nyhan Syndrome is caused by a
HGPRT deficiency
Becomes the guanine in GMP (nucleotide)
HGPRT
The guanine that accumulates when there is HGPRT deficiency become in:
xanthine (uric acid)
Drugs used for Lesch Nyhan syndrome
Allopurinol and Febuxostat (inhibits xantina oxidase)
Bases substitution that results in a early stop, usually are
UAA, UAG, UGA "(AA, AG, GA) GAGA" to remember
Hypotonia, feeding difficulties with a mutation in the SMN1 (deletion of a single nucleotide)
Duchenne muscular dystrophic
When a nucleotide is missing or added (deletion or insertion) and it is no divisible by 3 there is a:
Frameshift mutation (truncated non-functional protein)
Grown delay and unusual face and a mutation that disrupts the removal of introns
Marfan syndrome
Mutation than disrupts the removal of introns and retain it in mRNA.
Slice site mutation
Desease causes by a mutation that affects the mismatch repair
Lynch syndrome (HNPCC)
Photosensitivity, dry skin, multiple skin cancer and dymeres of pyrimidines
Xeroderma pigmentosum
In Xeroderma pigmentosum which mechanism is affect
Nucleotide excision repair (endonuclease remove the oligoneuclotides)