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Basic Molecular Biology for CS374
Scientific Method: The widely held philosophy that a theory can never be proved, only disproved, and that all attempts to explain anything are therefore futile.
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Overview
Structures of biomolecules How does DNA function? What is a gene? Computer scientists vs Biologists
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Bioinformatics schematic of a cell
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Macromolecule (Polymer)
Monomer
DNA Deoxyribonucleotides (dNTP)
RNA Ribonucleotides (NTP)
Protein or Polypeptide Amino Acid
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Watson and Crick
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Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA)
Form the genetic material of all living organisms.
Found mainly in the nucleus of a cell (hence “nucleic”)
Contain phosphoric acid as a component (hence “acid”)
They are made up of nucleotides.
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Nucleotides
A nucleotide has 3 components Sugar (ribose in RNA, deoxyribose in DNA) Phosphoric acid Nitrogen base
Adenine (A) Guanine (G) Cytosine (C) Thymine (T) or Uracil (U)
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Monomers of DNA
A deoxyribonucleotide has 3 components Sugar - Deoxyribose Phosphoric acid Nitrogen base
Adenine (A) Guanine (G) Cytosine (C) Thymine (T)
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Monomers of RNA
A ribonucleotide has 3 components Sugar - Ribose Phosphoric acid Nitrogen base
Adenine (A) Guanine (G) Cytosine (C) Uracil (U)
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Nucleotides
Phosphate Group
Sugar
NitrogenousBase
Phosphate Group
Sugar
NitrogenousBase
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T
C
A
C
T
G
G
C
G
A
G
T
C
A
G
C
G
A
G
U
C
A
G
C
DNA RNA
A = T
G = C
T U
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Composed of a chain of amino acids.
R
|
H2N--C--COOH
|
H
Proteins
20 possible groups
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R R | | H2N--C--COOH H2N--C--COOH | | H H
Proteins
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Dipeptide
R O R | II | H2N--C--C--NH--C--COOH | | H H
This is a peptide bond
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Protein structure
Linear sequence of amino acids folds to form a complex 3-D structure.
The structure of a protein is intimately connected to its function.
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DNA in action
Questions about DNA as the carrier of genetic information: How is the information stored in DNA? How is the stored information used ?
Answers: Information is stored as nucleotide sequences. .. and used in protein synthesis.
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The need for an intermediary
Fact 1 : Ribosomes are the sites of protein synthesis.
Fact 2 : Ribosomes are found in the cytoplasm.
Question : How does information ‘flow’ from DNA to protein?
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The Intermediary
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is the “messenger”. The “messenger RNA” (mRNA) can be
synthesized on a DNA template. Information is copied (transcribed) from DNA
to mRNA. (TRANSCRIPTION)
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Next question…
How do I interpret the information carried by mRNA?
Think of the sequence as a sequence of “triplets”.
Think of AUGCCGGGAGUAUAG as AUG-CCG-GGA-GUA-UAG.
Each triplet (codon) maps to an amino acid.
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The Genetic Code
f : codon amino acid 1968 Nobel Prize in medicine – Nirenberg
and Khorana Important – The genetic code is universal! It is also redundant / degenerate.
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The Genetic Code
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Translation
The sequence of codons is translated to a sequence of amino acids.
Transfer RNA (tRNA) – a different type of RNA. Freely float in the cytoplasm. Every amino acid has its own type of tRNA that
binds to it alone. Anti-codon – codon binding crucial. Show animation
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tRNA
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tRNA
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tRNA
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The gene and the genome
A sequence of nucleotides on the DNA that encodes a polypeptide is called a gene.
Genome = Set of all genes in the organism.
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More complexity
The RNA message is sometimes “edited”. Exons are nucleotide segments whose
codons will be expressed. Introns are intervening segments (genetic
gibberish) that are snipped out. Exons are spliced together to form mRNA.
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Splicing
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thissentencecontainsjunk
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Central Dogma of Molecular Biology DNA RNA Protein Phenotype Transcription : DNA RNA Translation : RNA Protein
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Central dogma
DNA
tRNA
rRNA
snRNA
mRNA
transcription
translation
POLYPEPTIDE
ZOOM IN
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Transcription – key steps
Initiation
Elongation
Termination
+
DNA
RNA
DNA
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Transcription – key steps
Initiation
Elongation
Termination
DNA
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Transcription – key steps
Initiation
Elongation
Termination
DNA
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Transcription – key steps
Initiation
Elongation
Termination
DNA
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Transcription – key steps
Initiation
Elongation
Termination
+
DNA
RNA
DNA
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Promoters
Promoters are sequences in the DNA just upstream of transcripts that define the sites of initiation.
The role of the promoter is to attract RNA polymerase to the correct start site so transcription can be initiated.
5’Promoter 3’
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Promoters
Promoters are sequences in the DNA just upstream of transcripts that define the sites of initiation.
The role of the promoter is to attract RNA polymerase to the correct start site so transcription can be initiated.
5’Promoter 3’
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Computer Scientists vs Biologists
(courtesy Steven Skiena, SUNY Stony Brook)
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Computer scientists vs Biologists
(Almost) Nothing is ever completely true or false in Biology.
Everything is either true or false in computer science.
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Computer scientists vs Biologists
Biologists strive to understand the very complicated, very messy natural world.
Computer scientists seek to build their own clean and organized virtual worlds.
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Computer scientists vs Biologists
Biologists are more data driven. Computer scientists are more algorithm
driven. One consequence is CS www pages have
fancier graphics while Biology www pages have more content.
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Computer scientists vs Biologists
Biologists are obsessed with being the first to discover something.
Computer scientists are obsessed with being the first to invent or prove something.
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Computer scientists vs Biologists
Biologists are comfortable with the idea that all data has errors.
Computer scientists are not.
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Computer scientists vs Biologists
Computer scientists get high-paid jobs after graduation.
Biologists typically have to complete one or more post-docs...
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Computer Science is to Biology what Mathematics
is to Physics
See you next week!