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5% of the human genome is genes that add a phosphate to something using ATP (Kinases)
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Which of the following residues can be phosphorylated by kinases?
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Serine
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Threonine
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Tyrosine
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Valine
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Argenine
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Glutamic Acid
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How many different kinases are there (roughly)?
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In kinases, DFG & RC motifs are highly conserved
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Which domains are commonly found in kinase interacting proteins?
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SH3 proteins mediate the assembly of proteins structures by binding to proline rich peptides in them
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SH domains modulate protein interactions by recognizing and binding to specific proteins by identifying specific peptide sequences
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What is the role of PH domains?
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Binding the protein to the ER membrane
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Binding the protein to the cell membrane
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Binding the protein to nuclear membrane
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Membranes form what?
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What mediate membrane functions?
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Mitochondiral membranes contail the most proteins, plasma membranes contain the least (Out of Mitochondrial, Plasma and Myelin membranes)
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Most integral membrane proteins span the membrane
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Integral proteins interact extensively with what?
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The hydrocarbon chains of lipids
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The phosphate groups of phospholipids
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The hydrocarbon tails of phospholipids
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Peripheral proteins are bound to the membrane via the head groups of phospholipids
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How do we tell how strongly a membrane protein is associated?
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Baterial Rhodopsin uses heat to pump protons out of the membrane
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How is the hydrophobic core formed in baterorhodopsin?
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In the case of the highly conserved 'Membrane Spanning Alpha Helix Structure', what must be on the outside?
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Phospholipids
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Non-polar aa
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Polar aa
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The membrane spanning alpha helix structure acts as what?
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Transmembrane helices can be predicted by a long string (or more) of hydrophobic amino acids in their aa sequence
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What is used to estimate the free energy change of a residue on transfer of a residue to water (i.e. how much energy does it take to disassociate the aa from the protein)?
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A polarity scale
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An amino scale
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A pH scale
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An amino acid with high energy lies buried in a hydrophobic region i.e. the membrane
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How large is the hydrocarbon core of the membrane?
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What is the name of the 20aa section of an integral protein that spans the membrane?
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How is a Hydropathy plot formed?
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The free energy change for each 20 aa segement plotted against the first aa in each segment
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The free energy change for each 20 aa segement plotted against the last aa in each segment
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The free energy change for each 30 aa segement plotted against the first aa in each segment
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What is the point of a hydropathy plot?
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To find which aa are in hydrophobic areas
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To find the window of integral proteins
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To find the window of peripheral proteins
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The criterion level for a hydropathy plot is +68
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What is Porin an example of?
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Membrane spanning alpha helices
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Membrane spanning beta sheets
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Membrane spanning helix/beta sheet structure
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What tends to be the features of membrane spanning beta sheet residues?
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The polarity of the internal aa in a membrane spanning beta sheet depends on the size
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Each sheet in the m.s beta sheet arrangement is hydrogen bonded to its neighbor in a parallel manner