DNA is a polymer made up of nucleotides. Each nucleotide contains a nitrogenous base, a 5-carbon sugar called deoxyribose, and a phosphate group. There are four nucleotides differing by their bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). DNA replication copies DNA through semiconservative replication using DNA polymerase. DNA polymerase adds nucleotides to a growing strand using the existing strand as a template. Lagging strand synthesis occurs discontinuously in short segments called Okazaki fragments. PCR amplifies specific DNA regions using repeated heating and cooling cycles and DNA polymerase to exponentially produce millions of copies of the target DNA.
According to the central dogma of molecular biology, genetic information usually flows (1) from DNA to DNA during its transmission from generation to generation and (2) from DNA to protein during its phenotypic expression in an organism
According to the central dogma of molecular biology, genetic information usually flows (1) from DNA to DNA during its transmission from generation to generation and (2) from DNA to protein during its phenotypic expression in an organism
DNA and RNA molecules are linear polymers built from individual units called nucleotides connected by bonds called phosphodiester linkages. DNA and RNA are used to store and pass genetic information from one generation to the next.
INTRODUCTION
HISTORY
ENZYMES AND PROTEINS INVOLVED
IN PROKARYOTIC DNA REPLICATION
DNA polymerases
Types and function
Additional enzymes
Helicase ,
SSBP,
Topoisomerase,
Primase ,
Ligase ,
Events and function of enzymes
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Mehthylases are those enzymes which catalyze the transference of only a methyl group (-CH3) from a donor to the target molecule.
Since we are talking about DNA Methylases these are those enzymes in which the target or recipient molecule happens to be a DNA or Nucleotide in a DNA sequence.
A class of enzymes that alter the supercoiling of double-stranded DNA. (In supercoiling the DNA molecule coils up like a telephone cord, which shortens the molecule.) The topoisomerases act by transiently cutting one or both strands of the DNA.
The regulation of DNA supercoiling is essential to DNA transcription and replication, the DNA helix must unwind to permit the proper function of the enzymatic machinery involved in these processes.
DNA and RNA molecules are linear polymers built from individual units called nucleotides connected by bonds called phosphodiester linkages. DNA and RNA are used to store and pass genetic information from one generation to the next.
INTRODUCTION
HISTORY
ENZYMES AND PROTEINS INVOLVED
IN PROKARYOTIC DNA REPLICATION
DNA polymerases
Types and function
Additional enzymes
Helicase ,
SSBP,
Topoisomerase,
Primase ,
Ligase ,
Events and function of enzymes
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Mehthylases are those enzymes which catalyze the transference of only a methyl group (-CH3) from a donor to the target molecule.
Since we are talking about DNA Methylases these are those enzymes in which the target or recipient molecule happens to be a DNA or Nucleotide in a DNA sequence.
A class of enzymes that alter the supercoiling of double-stranded DNA. (In supercoiling the DNA molecule coils up like a telephone cord, which shortens the molecule.) The topoisomerases act by transiently cutting one or both strands of the DNA.
The regulation of DNA supercoiling is essential to DNA transcription and replication, the DNA helix must unwind to permit the proper function of the enzymatic machinery involved in these processes.
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2. Components of DNA
DNA is a polymer. The monomer units of DNA are
nucleotides, and the polymer is known as a
"polynucleotide." Each nucleotide consists of a 5-carbon
sugar (deoxyribose), a nitrogen containing base attached
to the sugar, and a phosphate group. There are four
different types of nucleotides found in DNA, differing
only in the nitrogenous base. The four nucleotides are
given one letter abbreviations as shorthand for the four
bases.
• A is for adenine
• G is for guanine
• C is for cytosine
• T is for thymine
3. Purine Bases
• Adenine and guanine are purines. Purines are the larger of the
two types of bases found in DNA.
Pyrimidine Bases
• Cytosine and thymine are pyrimidines. The 6 stoms (4
carbon, 2 nitrogen) are numbered 1-6. Like purines, all
pyrimidine ring atoms lie in the same plane.
Deoxyribose Sugar
• The deoxyribose sugar of the DNA backbone has 5
carbons and 3 oxygens. The carbon atoms are numbered
1', 2', 3', 4', and 5' to distinguish from the numbering of
the atoms of the purine and pyrmidine rings. The
hydroxyl groups on the 5'- and 3'- carbons link to the
phosphate groups to form the DNA backbone.
Deoxyribose lacks an hydroxyl group at the 2'-position
when compared to ribose, the sugar component of RNA.
4. Nucleosides
• A nucleoside is one of the four DNA bases covalently
attached to the C1' position of a sugar. The sugar in
deoxynucleosides is 2'-deoxyribose. The sugar in
ribonucleosides is ribose. Nucleosides differ from
nucleotides in that they lack phosphate groups. The four
different nucleosides of DNA are deoxyadenosine
(dA), deoxyguanosine (dG), deoxycytosine (dC), and
(deoxy)thymidine (dT, or T).
Nucleotides
• A nucleotide is a nucleoside with one or more phosphate
groups covalently attached to the 3'- and/or 5'-hydroxyl
group(s).
5. DNA Backbone
• The DNA backbone is a polymer with an alternating
sugar-phosphate sequence. The deoxyribose sugars are
joined at both the 3'-hydroxyl and 5'-hydroxyl groups to
phosphate groups in ester links, also known as
"phosphodiester" bonds.
Example of DNA Backbone: 5'-d(CGAAT):
6. DNA REPLICATION
• A biological process that occurs in all living organisms and copies
their DNA; it is the basis for biological inheritance. The process
starts with one double-stranded DNA molecule and produces two
identical copies of the molecule.
7. DNA polymerase
• DNA polymerases adds nucleotides to the 3' end of a strand of
DNA.If a mismatch is accidentally incorporated, the polymerase is
inhibited from further extension. Proofreading removes the
mismatched nucleotide and extension continues.
• DNA polymerases are a family of enzymes that carry out all forms
of DNA replication. However, a DNA polymerase can only extend
an existing DNA strand paired with a template strand; it cannot
begin the synthesis of a new strand. To begin synthesis, a short
fragment of DNA or RNA, called a primer, must be created and
paired with the template DNA strand. DNA polymerase then
synthesizes a new strand of DNA by extending the 3' end of an
existing nucleotide chain, adding new nucleotides matched to the
template strand one at a time via the creation of phosphodiester
bonds. The energy for this process of DNA polymerization comes
from two of the three total phosphates attached to each
unincorporated base. (Free bases with their attached phosphate
groups are called nucleoside triphosphates.) When a nucleotide
is being added to a growing DNA strand, two of the phosphates
are removed and the energy produced creates a phosphodiester
bond that attaches the remaining phosphate to the growing chain.
8. • . The energetics of this process also
help explain the directionality of
synthesis - if DNA were synthesized in
the 3' to 5' direction, the energy for the
process would come from the 5' end of
the growing strand rather than from free
nucleotides.
• In general, DNA polymerases are
extremely accurate, making less than
one mistake for every 107 nucleotides
added. Even so, some DNA
polymerases also have proofreading
ability; they can remove nucleotides
from the end of a strand in order to
correct mismatched bases. If the 5'
nucleotide needs to be removed during
proofreading, the triphosphate end is
lost. Hence, the energy source that
usually provides energy to add a new
nucleotide is also lost
9. Replication fork
Many enzymes are involved in the DNA replication fork.
• The replication fork is a structure that forms within the nucleus during DNA
replication. It is created by helicases, which break the hydrogen bonds
holding the two DNA strands together. The resulting structure has two
branching "prongs", each one made up of a single strand of DNA. These two
strands serve as the template for the leading and lagging strands, which will
be created as DNA polymerase matches complementary nucleotides to the
templates; The templates may be properly referred to as the leading strand
template and the lagging strand template.
• Leading strand
The leading strand is the template strand of the DNA double helix so that the
replication fork moves along it in the 3' to 5' direction. This allows the newly
synthesized strand complementary to the original strand to be synthesized 5'
to 3' in the same direction as the movement of the replication fork.
On the leading strand, a polymerase "reads" the DNA and
adds nucleotides to it continuously. This polymerase is DNA polymerase
III (DNA Pol III) inprokaryotes and presumably Pol ε[ in yeasts. In human cells
the leading and lagging strands are synthesized by Pol α and Pol δ within the
nucleus and Pol γ in the mitochondria. Pol ε can substitute for Pol δ in
special circumstances
10. Lagging strand
• The lagging strand is the strand of the template DNA double helix that is
oriented so that the replication fork moves along it in a 5' to 3' manner.
Because of its orientation, opposite to the working orientation of DNA
polymerase III, which moves on a template in a 3' to 5' manner, replication of
the lagging strand is more complicated than that of the leading strand.
• On the lagging strand, primase "reads" the DNA and adds RNA to it in
short, separated segments. In eukaryotes, primase is intrinsic to Pol
α.[13] DNA polymerase III or Pol δ lengthens the primed
segments, forming Okazaki fragments. Primer removal in eukaryotes is also
performed by Pol δ.In prokaryotes, DNA polymerase I "reads" the
fragments, removes the RNA using its flap endonuclease domain (RNA
primers are removed by 5'-3' exonuclease activity of polymerase I and
replaces the RNA nucleotides with DNA nucleotides (this is necessary
because RNA and DNA use slightly different kinds of nucleotides). DNA
ligase joins the fragments together.
• Dynamics at the replication fork
• The assembled human DNA clamp, a trimer of the protein PCNA.
• As helicase unwinds DNA at the replication fork, the DNA ahead is forced to
rotate. This process results in a build-up of twists in the DNA ahead.This
build-up would form a resistance that would eventually halt the progress of
the replication fork. DNA Gyrase is an enzyme that temporarily breaks the
strands of DNA, relieving the tension caused by unwinding the two strands of
the DNA helix; DNA Gyrase achieves this by adding negative supercoils to
the DNA helix.
11. • Bare single-stranded DNA tends to fold back on itself
and form secondary structures; these structures can
interfere with the movement of DNA polymerase. To
prevent this,single-strand binding proteins bind to the
DNA until a second strand is synthesized, preventing
secondary structure formation.
• Clamp proteins form a sliding clamp around
DNA, helping the DNA polymerase maintain contact
with its template, thereby assisting with processivity.
The inner face of the clamp enables DNA to be
threaded through it. Once the polymerase reaches the
end of the template or detects double-stranded
DNA, the sliding clamp undergoes a conformational
change that releases the DNA polymerase. Clamp-
loading proteins are used to initially load the
clamp, recognizing the junction between template and
RNA primers
12. Amplification and quantification of DNA
• Because PCR amplifies the regions of DNA that it
targets, PCR can be used to analyze extremely small
amounts of sample. This is often critical for forensic
analysis, when only a trace amount of DNA is available as
evidence. PCR may also be used in the analysis of ancient
DNA that is tens of thousands of years old. These PCR-
based techniques have been successfully used on
animals, such as a forty-thousand-year-old mammoth, and
also on human DNA, in applications ranging from the
analysis of Egyptian mummies to the identification of
a Russian tsar.
• Quantitative PCR methods allow the estimation of the
amount of a given sequence present in a sample—a
technique often applied to quantitatively determine levels
of gene expression. Real-time PCR is an established tool for
DNA quantification that measures the accumulation of DNA
13. PCR principles and procedure
• Figure 1a: A thermal cycler for PCR
• Figure 1b: An older model three-temperature thermal cycler for PCR
• PCR is used to amplify a specific region of a DNA strand (the DNA
target). Most PCR methods typically amplify DNA fragments of up to
~10 kilo base pairs (kb), although some techniques allow for
amplification of fragments up to 40 kb in size.[5]
• A basic PCR set up requires several components and reagents.[6] These
components include:
• DNA template that contains the DNA region (target) to be amplified.
• Two primers that are complementary to the 3' (three prime) ends of
each of the sense and anti-sense strand of the DNA target.
• Taq polymerase or another DNA polymerase with a temperature
optimum at around 70 °C.
• Deoxynucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs; nucleotides containing
triphosphate groups), the building-blocks from which the DNA
polymerase synthesizes a new DNA strand.
• Buffer solution, providing a suitable chemical environment for optimum
activity and stability of the DNA polymerase.
14. • Divalent cations, magnesium or manganese ions; generally
Mg2+ is used, but Mn2+ can be utilized for PCR-mediated
DNA mutagenesis, as higher Mn2+ concentration increases
the error rate during DNA synthesis[7]
• Monovalent cation potassium ions.
• The PCR is commonly carried out in a reaction volume of
10–200 μl in small reaction tubes (0.2–0.5 ml volumes) in
a thermal cycler. The thermal cycler heats and cools the
reaction tubes to achieve the temperatures required at each
step of the reaction (see below). Many modern thermal
cyclers make use of the Peltier effect, which permits both
heating and cooling of the block holding the PCR tubes
simply by reversing the electric current. Thin-walled reaction
tubes permit favorable thermal conductivity to allow for rapid
thermal equilibration. Most thermal cyclers have heated lids
to prevent condensation at the top of the reaction tube.
Older thermocyclers lacking a heated lid require a layer of
oil on top of the reaction mixture or a ball of wax inside the
tube.