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What is the first way to analyze DNA?

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Absorption of Nucleic Acid

  • Strong absorption at 260nm (where it minimally absorbs)
  • UV interacts with rings of bases
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What is the second way to analyze DNA

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Gradient Centrifugation (put stuff in tube in spin it, big things to the bottom)

1) Velocity Centrifugation
- measures speed of centrifugation
- measured svedberg units (S)
- in general, greater mass results in greater speed, but also depends on shape

2) Density Gradient Centrifugation (CsCl gradient)
- Also called quilibrium centrifugation because molecules migrate until they reach a point of neutral density (called isopycnic point)
- GC-rich DNA is more dense than AT-rich DNA
- The %GC is directly proportional to the buoyant density of the DNA

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isopycnic point

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in the density gradient centrifugation, the isopycnic point is when the molecules migrate until they reach a point of neutral density

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Gel electrophoresis

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  • Used to separate DNA fragments
  • Fragments migrate from negative to positive
  • smaller pieces move further than larger pieces
  • Migration distance is inversely proportional to the log (DNA fragment size)
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What does it mean when you denature DNA?

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means breaking the hydrogen bonds and causing the two stand to sepearate

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Denaturation Studies

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  • strand separation (heat or chemical induced)
  • Hyperchromic effect
  • observe melting profile
  • Tm is the temperature at which 50% of the DNA is denatured
  • The Tm is the inflection point on the graph
  • High GC content results in high Tm
  • Tm= MIDPOINT OF THERMAL DENATURATION
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Hyperchromic effect

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an increase in UV absorption due to denaturation

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Relationship between Tm and %GC

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Tm=69+(.41)(%GC)

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Cot1/2

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point at which 1/2 of the DNA is dsDNA

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Complexity

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length of all unique fragments laid end to end (in bp)

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Classification of repetitive DNA (3 classes)

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Highly repetitive= more than 100,000 copies usually short sequences

Moderately Repetitive= 10-100,000 copies

Unique= Single Copy

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Chromatin

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the complex of DNA, chromosomal proteins and RNA within the nucleus

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Euchromatin

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lighter staining parts of the chromosome during interphase

  • actively transcribed genes
  • condenses and relaxes (stretches out)
  • condenses and decondenses in cell cycle
  • most of transcribed region is in euchromatin
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Heterochromatin

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darker staining parts of the chromosome

  • fewer genes
  • remains condensed in interphase
  • includes regions in the centromeres and telomeres
  • generally not transcribed
  • usually not involved in crossing over
  • replicates late in S PHASE
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Constitutive heterochromatin

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always heterochromatin

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Facultative hetrochromatin

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may be euchromatic sometimes

EX: X chromosomes that is Barr Body

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Function of Unique DNA

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  • thought to contain mostly structural and regulatory genes and is usually transcribed.
  • Codes for most proteins and enzymes in organism.
  • Found in euchromatic regions of chromosome. Comprises 30%-80% of eukaryotic genome
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Function of Moderately repetitive DNA

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is found in euchromatic regions of chromosome and code for some ribosomal RNAs and other genes where lots of gene product is needed quickly.

May also pay a role in chromosome structure and contain sites where proteins can bind to DNA for gene.

5-80% of genome.

Includes transposable elements

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Function of Highly repetitive DNA

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is primarily found in heterochromatic regions of the chromosome. Rarely transcribed and function is not known

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TMV- Tobacco Mosaic Virus

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Histones

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are basic proteins and have lots of positively charged amino acids which allow them to bind electrostatic ally to negatively charged phosphates on DNA

-are highly conserved especially H3 and H4

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H2A and H2B

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H1

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see tissue to tissue difference

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Nucleosome

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core histone+ 145-147 bp DNA

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Chromatosome
nucleosome + H1 histone
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Core Histones
2 each of H2A, H2B, H3, and H4
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How was the Chromatin Structure Deduced?
deduced by using micrococcal nuclease digestion for varying lengths of time and analyzing the fragments produced by each.
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What chromatosomes in a chromatin fiber separated by?
linker DNA
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Nuclear Scaffolds
dark central core of histones in mitotic chromosomes seen when histones are removed (use high salt concentration to removed histones) -anchor the series of 30 nm loops. Each loop has between 20,000-100,000 bp of DNA
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SARs (scaffold attachment regions)
sites between transcription regions where scaffolds can bind DNA. Proteins that bind here may be important for getting the proper DNA conformation for expression
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Topoisomerase II
is one of the proteins in the scaffold. It can manipulate coiling of DNA by cutting the backbone. The amount of coiling is important in DNA expression.
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Topoisomerases
allow supercoiling to occur
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Supercoiling
when DNA coils back on itself when it is overwound or underwound
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Human Banding Patterns
produced by treating human chromosomes with enzyme trypsin followed by stain glemsa
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Endopolyploidy
several rounds of DNA replication without separation of replicate chromosomes
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Bands
are characteristic for strain of organism and can be used to identify particular chromosomes
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Puffs and Balbiani rings
are areas where the DNA is loosely coiled so that transcription can occur
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Centromeres
- must attach to kinetochore which bind to spindle fibers so reasonable to have common sequence to allow same function - most of centromere is heterochromatic with short DNA sequences repeated many times - no specific sequence found in all centromeres - Do see a different histone (CenH3) that replaces H3 in centromeres of humans, flies, and arabiopsis that seems to bring about a change in chromatin structure to allow formation of kinetochore and binding of spindle fibers
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Yeast model for centromeres
contain common central region (82-89bp that is more than 90% AT) surrounded on both sides by conserved regions 11-14 bp long
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Telomeres
- provide stability for ends of chromosomes so that chromosomes are not degraded by exonuclease - prevent chromosomes from joining with each other at the ends due to ligase activity - provide proper replication of end of chromosome - although sequences vary from species to species, they are oriented GC pairs toward end of chromosome
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What is the human telomeric sequence?
5'- TTAGGG -3' | repeated 300-500 times
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T-loop
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Barbara McClintock
transposable genetic elements "jumping genes" - piece of chromosome can move from one site to another site (can move to a different chromosome) - Can alter phenotype when they move (either by disrupting gene or disrupting regulatory area)
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The Ac-Ds System in Maize
discovered by Barbara McClintock Ac- (activator)- required for the Ds element to Move Ds- (dissociation)- does not contain gene for transposition so it must be directed to move by Ac
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Replicative Transposition
uses transposes to move a copy
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Nonreplicative Transposition
uses transposes to move original, but doesn't repair DNA
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Conservative Transposition
moves original and repairs DNA
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Retrotransposons
use reverse transcriptase to create DNA from element's RNA
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Common Sequence Elements
- sequence is flanked by inverted repeats | - after insertion, the insert sequence is flanked by direct repeats
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Ti Plasmid
the Ti plasmid is a tumor inducing plasmid from Agrobacterium tumefaciens. It causes crown gall disease in the normal infection process -the Ti plasmid inserts into the plant chromosome to cause the disease
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Do transposons serve a purpose?
- about 45% of human genome appears to be remnants of transposons (remenant=dont move) - About 50% of spontaneous mutations in Drosophila are due to transposons - Transposons have the potential to move regulatory sequences to new places which could affect gene expression
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