This document summarizes Lecture 1 of the Wet-Lab course which covers prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells using bacteria and yeast as examples. It introduces the central dogma of biology and compares the structures and gene expression of prokaryotic cells like bacteria and eukaryotic cells like yeast. Specific topics covered include the structures of E. coli and B. subtilis, bacterial operons, the lac operon, and how yeast undergo fermentation.
11. Prokaryotic genes
Downstream (3’)
Prokaryotes (intronless protein coding genes)
promoter Gene region
Upstream (5’)
Transcription (gene is encoded on minus strand .. And the reverse
complement is read into mRNA)
DNA
mRNA
5´ UTR 3´ UTRCoDing Sequence (CDS)
ATG
ATG
TAC
Translation: tRNA read off each codons, 3 bases at a time,
starting at start codon until it reaches a STOP codon.
protein
12. Prokaryotic genes (operons)
downstream
Prokaryotes (operon structure)
promoterupstream
Gene 1 Gene 2 Gene 3
In prokaryotes, sometimes genes that are part of the same operational
pathway are grouped together under a single promoter. They then produce
a pre-mRNA which eventually produces 3 separates mRNA´s.
13. Bacterial genomes have simple gene structure.
- Operator
- Promoters
-35 sequence (T82T84G78A65C54A45) 15-20 bases
-10 sequence (T80A95T45A60A50T96) 5-9 bases
- Start of transcription : initiation start: Purine90 (sometimes it’s the
“A” in CAT)
- translation binding site (shine-dalgarno) 10 bp upstream of AUG
(AGGAGG)
- One or more Open Reading Frame
•start-codon (unless sequence is partial)
•until next in-frame stop codon on that strand .
- Termination
Bacterial Gene Structure of signals
1-10-35
14. Promoter
• 40-60 bp
• AT rich
• Initiates transcription
• Binding site for RNA polymerase
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