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Biochemistry

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1. Where are cytosolic and organellar proteins made






2. What catacholamine step is SAM required for






3. What CETP do






4. several distinct syndromes characterized by familial tumors of endocrine glands including pancreas - parathyroid - pituitary - thryoid and adrenal medulla - disorders and gene association






5. What is I cell disease






6. What are the findings with homocystinuria and What amino acid is needs to be supplemented






7. Which anticancer drugs work on microtubules






8. What converts dopamine to NE






9. What are cyclin - CDK complexes






10. What is used to diagnose muscular dystrophies






11. What are the 3 AR forms of homocystinuria






12. Where is PEP carboxykinase found - What does it do - and What does it require






13. The golgi apparatus fxns as a distribution center between what organelles in the cell and What does it process






14. What are the characteristics of angelmans syndrome and How does it occur






15. What test is used for B12 def






16. What does helicase do






17. What is anticipation and give an example






18. What else can phosphoylate phosphorylase kinase






19. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic DNA synthesis is blank and involves both blank and blank strands






20. Which anti gout drugs work on microtubules






21. What is mosaicism and give an example






22. What does the primary transcript combine with to form the spliceosome






23. What is the RDE of the HMP shunt






24. What tissues have both enzymes of sorbitol metabolism






25. Milder form of type I with nl blood lactate levels - dz and enzyme


26. What converts DOPA to dopamine






27. What are the 4 assumption of the Hardy Weinberg law






28. deletion of VHL gene on chromosome 3 leading to hemangioblastomas of retina/cerebellum/medulla bilateral RCC - dz and overexpression product






29. What are the fetal screening measures for Down






30. What is the fxn of vit K






31. What do albinism - ARPKD - CF - glycogen storage diseases - hemochromatosis - mucopolysaccharidoses (except Hunters) PKU - sickle cell - sphingolipodoses (except Fabrys) thalassemias have in common






32. What does arsenic do and What are th results of poisoning






33. What is the RDE of de novo pyrimidine synthesis






34. Which step in the de novo purine and pyrimidine synthesis pathway requires aspartate - glycine - glutamine and THF






35. What happens with wet beriberi






36. colon becomes covered witih adenomatous polyps after puberty - progresses to colon cancer unless resected






37. What does desmin stain for






38. What happens on the oxidative arm of the HMP shunt and What is the key enzyme






39. depression - progressive dementia - choreiform movements - caudate atrophy and dec levels of GABA and ACH in the brain






40. How is vit D stored






41. Where is hexokinase found - What is its Km and Vmax and what uninduces it






42. What is the function of biotin






43. What neuroanatomical strutures are injured in wernicke - korsakoff






44. What induces pyruvate kinase






45. What are purines made from






46. What reaction does adenosine deaminase normally catalyze






47. What enzyme results in classic galactosemia and What is the clinical






48. What 3 steps in RNA processing occur after transcription


49. Which end of the tRNA is the amino acid bound to...


50. CF - is AR deletion In what gene On what chromosome resulting in a deletion inf what?