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Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford Organic Chemistry Option II: Chemical Biology Dr Stuart Conway Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford email: [email protected] Teaching webpage (to download hand-‐outs): http://conway.chem.ox.ac.uk/Teaching.html Recommended books: Biochemistry 4th Edition by Voet and Voet, published by Wiley, ISBN: 978-‐0-‐470-‐57095-‐1. Foundations of Chemical Biology by Dobson, Gerrard and Pratt, published by OUP (primer) ISBN: 0-‐19-‐924899-‐0 1 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford RNA synthesis: Transcription slide 39 • • It catalyses the DNA-‐directed coupling of nucleotide triphosphates to synthesise new RNA. • The newly synthesised RNA is complementary to the template DNA. Transcription slide 40 • • Hence, the incoming nucleotide is added to the free 3’-‐OH of the growing RNA chain. • RNA polymerase selects the nucleotide it incorporates into the growing RNA chain based on the requirement that it forms a Watson-‐Crick base pair with the DNA strand that is being transcribed (the template strand -‐ only one strand of DNA is transcribed at a time). • The RNA polymerase moves along the DNA duplex that it is transcribing and separates a short (~14 base pairs) segment of the DNA helix to form a transcription bubble. • • The DNA-‐RNA hybrid helix consists of antiparallel strands, hence the DNA’s template strand is read in its 3’→5’ direction. 2 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford RNA polymerase slide 41 • • The outer surface of the protein is almost uniformly negatively charges, whereas the surfaces that interact with nucleic acids are positively charged. • The DNA occupies the main channel, which directs the template strand to the active site. • There the DNA base-‐pairs with the incoming nucleotide triphosphate (not in structure). Translation slide 42 • • Although the formation of a peptide bond is relatively simple, the translational process in highly complicated. • This complexity arises from the need to link 20 different amino acids residues accurately in the order specified by a particular mRNA. • • As the base sequence of DNA is the only variable element in this otherwise monotonously repeating polymer, the base sequence and the protein sequence must be linked. 3 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford Translation slide 43 “The problem of how a sequence of four things can determine a sequence of twenty things is known as the coding problem.” Translation slide 44 • With only 4 bases in DNA to code for 20 amino acids, a group of several bases (a codon) is necessary to specify a single amino acid. • • A doublet code would only allow 42 = 16 codons, which is insufficient to specify 20 amino acids. • In a triplet code as many as 44 codons might not code for amino acids. • Alternatively, some amino acids might be specified by more than one codon -‐ a degenerate code. 4 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford The genetic code slide 45 • How is DNA’s continuous sequence grouped into codons? • Is the code overlapping? E.g. ABC codes for the first amino acids and BDC codes for the second etc. The genetic code slide 46 • Or is the code non-‐overlapping? • E.g. ABC specifies the first amino acid and DEF the second etc. The genetic code • • The genetic code is highly degenerate: Three amino acids (L, R, S) are each specified by six codons. • Only Met and Trp, two of the least common amino acids in proteins, are specified by a single codon. slide 47 5 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford The genetic code slide 48 • Sydney Brenner and Francis Crick formed the following hypotheses on the genetic code: 1. The code is a triplet code. 2. The code is read in a sequential manner starting from a fixed point in the gene. The insertion or deletion of a nucleotide shifts the frame (grouping) in which in which the succeeding nucleotides are read as codons. Thus the code has no internal punctuation that indicates the reading frame -‐ the code is comma free. 3. The genetic code slide 49 • The sentence represents a gene in which the words (codons) each contain three letters (bases). • The spaces have no physical significance; they only present to indicate the reading frame. • The deletion of the fourth letter (B) shifts the reading frame so that all of the words after the deletion are meaningless -‐ specify the wrong amino acids. The genetic code slide 50 • Insertion of a letter (X) passed the point of the original mutation restores the original reading frame. • Hence on the words (codons) between the two changes (mutations) are altered. • Therefore the sentence may still be intelligible (the gene could still specify a functional protein), particularly if the changes are close together. 6 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford The genetic code • The major breakthrough in deciphering the genetic code came in 1961 when Nirenberg and Matthaei established that UUU is the codon specifying Phe. • They added poly(U) to a cell-‐free protein synthesising system and showed that this stimulated synthesis of only poly(Phe). • In similar experiments, poly(A) was shown to specify poly(Lys) and poly(C) was found to specify poly(Pro). • • These stop codons are also known (somewhat inappropriately) as nonsense codons as they are the only codons that do not specify amino acids. • UAG, UAA and UGA are sometimes referred to as ambre, ochre and opal codons. slide 51 • • These codons also specify amino acids, Met and Val, respectively. • The arrangement of the genetic code is not random. • Most synonyms (codons that only differ in their third nucleotide) occupy the same box in the table. • XYU and XYC always specify the same amino acids; XYA and XYG do so in all by two cases. • Changes in the first codon position tend to specify the same or similar amino acids. • Codons with second position pyrimidines (C AND U) tend to specify hydrophobic amino acids. • Codons with second position purines (A and G) encode mostly polar amino acids. • 7 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford The genetic code slide 52 • How does the information in DNA actually translate into polypeptide sequences? • In 1955 Francis Crick proposed the adaptor hypothesis stating that translation occurs through the mediation of adaptor molecules. • • Each adaptor was postulated to carry a specific amino acid and to recognise the corresponding codon. • At a similar time it was shown that in the course of protein synthesis 14C labelled amino acids become bound to low molecular mass fractions of RNA. • Translation • All tRNAs contain: • A 5’-‐terminal phosphate. • A 7-‐base pair step that includes the 5’-‐ terminal nucleotide and may include non-‐Watson-‐Crick base pairs, such as G ⋅ U. This assembly is known as the acceptor stem as the amino acid is appended to the 3’-‐OH group. • A 3-‐ or 4-‐base stem ending in a loop that that frequently contains the modified base dihydrouridine (D), known as the D arm. • A 5-‐base-‐pair stem ending in a loop that usually contains the sequence TΨC (Ψ = pseudouridine). • All tRNAs terminate in the sequence CCA, with a free 3’-‐OH group. • There are 15 invariant positions and 8 semi-‐invariant (only a purine or only a pyrimidine) positions. slide 53 8 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford Modified nucleotides that occur in tRNA slide 54 The structure of yeast tRNAPhe slide 55 9 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford Synthesis of tRNA slide 56 • • This mixed anhydride then reacts with tRNA to form aminoacyl-‐tRNA and AMP. Ribosome slide 57 • For translation to occur, mRNA and tRNA must bind to each other, and the amino acids carried by the tRNA must react to form the polypetide chain. • • • Elucidating the molecular structure of the ribosome has been extremely challenging. 10 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford Ribosome slide 59 11 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford Translation slide 60 Translation slide 61 12 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford Translation slide 62 • The ribosomal peptidyl transfer reaction occurs ~107-‐fold faster than the uncatalysed reaction. • Translation slide 63 • • The ribosome may also play a role in excluding water from the preorganised electrostatic environment of the active site. 13 Dr Stuart Conway Organic Option II: Chemical Biology University of Oxford Translation slide 64 • 14