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Exam2 S08 Key.Cwk (WP) Exam #2 MOLB / MICR 2021 March 11th, 2008 Name:______________________________ TA’s name:______________________________ Answer the first 20 questions on the computer-graded answer sheet by filling in the proper bubble with a No. 2 pencil. If you change an answer, erase the undesired mark thoroughly. Mark only the best answer to each question. Each question is worth 2 points. Be sure to fill in the boxes for your name, then fill in the corresponding bubbles beneath them correctly. Please also write your TAs name somewhere on the scantron! Questions 21 through 29 are each worth 10 points. Please choose to answer 6 of these 9 questions. Circle the questions that you choose. This exam has 20 pages. Please check to make sure that you have them all. *On page 19 are the skeleton outlines of glycolysis and the TCA cycle. On page 20 is a codon usage table. The exam is worth 100 points. Useful equations and constants: ΔG = ΔH - TΔS *If you feel that you really need to explain one of your answers to a multiple choice question, please do so on the lines below. I will award credit or partial credit for good justifications of missed questions. __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ 1 1. In the following cartoon, two enzymes are shown binding to their substrates. Based on your prerequisite knowledge as well as the picture, which statement is TRUE? a. Enzyme 2 binds to its substrate via the lock-and-key model. b. After converting the substrate to products, enzyme 1 will be unable to bind to another substrate. c. Enzymes 1 and 2 both lower reaction activation energy in part by stabilizing a high-energy complex that has a structure somewhere between that of the substrate and its products. d. all of the above e. b and c 2 2. Following is a cartoon depiction of the glycolytic enzyme phosphofructokinase (PFK). Labeled on the drawing are the enzyme active sites as well as additional sites to which the molecule phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) binds. When PEP binds to the enzyme, the enzyme undergoes conformational changes at the active site that preclude the substrate from binding. Which statement is FALSE? a. Phosphofructokinase is regulated by allosteric inhibition. b. Phosphoenolpyruvate is an effector molecule. c. Phosphofructokinase is regulated by feedback inhibition. d. Phosphofructokinase requires phosphoenolpyruvate as a cofactor. 3. As we remember from our study of the TCA cycle, the enzyme succinate dehydrogenase catalyzes step 6 during which succinate is converted to fumarate. Based on your knowledge of the events that occur during this step, which statement is TRUE? a. Succinate dehydrogenase requires a cosubstrate. b. Succinate dehydrogenase requires an essential ion.. c. Succinate dehydrogenase requires a prosthetic group. d. Active succinate dehydrogenase is an apoenzyme. e. all of the above 3 Use the following table to help in answering questions 4 and 5: 4. The following reaction occurs during the first step of glycolysis: Glucose + ATP Glucose 6-phosphate + ADP Which statement is FALSE? a. This reaction is catalyzed by a kinase. b. The overall ΔGº’hydrolysis for this reaction is -16 kJ/mol. c. This reaction is overall exergonic. d. The overall ΔGº’hydrolysis for this reaction makes it more favorable (exergonic) than the following reaction: Phosphoenolpyruvate + ADP ATP + pyruvate 5. Which statement is TRUE? a. Glucose 6-phosphate could transfer a phosphoryl group to glucose to form glucose 1-phosphate. b. When phosphoenolpyruvate transfers a phosphoryl group to ADP to form ATP, this is called oxidative phosphorylation. c. The transfer of a phosphoryl group from 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate to ADP is an exergonic process. d. The hydrolysis of ATP to form ADP and inorganic phosphate requires 30 kJ/mol. 4 6. During the sixth step of glycolysis, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate is converted to 1,3 -bisphosphoglycerate. At this point in the pathway a. two ATP molecules have been consumed and two have been generated for a net yield of zero ATP. b. a net of two NADH have been generated. c. ATP has been generated via substrate-level phosphorylation on two separate occasions. d. all reactions that have occurred havr occurred in the six-carbon stage of glycolysis. 7. In both steps 7 and 10 of glycolysis a. ATP is generated via substrate-level phosphorylation. b. ATP is consumed. c. a six-carbon sugar is cleaved to form two three-carbon sugars. d. a molecule with high phosphoryl group transfer potential is generated. 8. Based on your experience in enzyme names, as well as the type of reaction occurring, what is the name of the enzyme that catalyzes the transition step? a. pyruvate dehydrogenase b. pyruvate kinase c. acetyl-CoA synthetase d. thiolase 9. Which reduced cosubstrate is generated in the TCA cycle? a. NADH b. FADH2 c. NADPH d. QH2 10. ATP is produced by substrate-level phosphorylation in which (one) of the following? a. the TCA cycle b. the electron transport chain c. the transition step d. all of the above e. a and c 5 11. Which statement/s about the TCA cycle is/are TRUE? a. The TCA cycle generates more ATP via substrate-level phosphorylation than does glycolysis (per glucose molecule). b. After step 5 of the TCA cycle, four molecules of NADH have been generated per acetyl group. c. The TCA cycle generates more reducing power per glucose molecule than glycolysis and the transition step combined. d. If 2 molecules of glucose are completely catabolized, 6 molecules of NADH are generated during the TCA cycle. e. all of the above 12. As two electrons from NADH are transferred through the mitochondrial electron transport chain, many events occur. Which one of the following correctly orders the sequence of events 1) cytochrome c is oxidized by cytochrome c oxidase 2) NADH dehydrogenase transfers electrons to ubiquinone (Q) converting it to Ubiquinol (QH2). 3) Complex III pumps protons from the cytosol to the mitochondrial intermembrane space. 4) O2 is reduced. a. 2, 1, 3, 4 b. 2, 3, 1, 4 c. 1, 3, 2, 4 d. 4, 3, 2, 1 e. 2, 3, 4, 1 13. The Chemiosmotic Hypothesis a. states that NADH may be oxidized only at Complex II of the mitochondrial electron transport chain. b. states that the proton motive force can serve as an energy source for the oxidative phosphorylation of ADP to form ATP. c. is valid only for strictly fermentative bacteria. d. none of the above 14. Organisms using anaerobic respiration to generate ATP a. lack the components of the electron transport chain. b. can use a molecule other than oxygen as their terminal electron acceptor. c. generate less energy than those organisms using aerobic respiration. d. all of the above e. b and c 6 15. Sulfur bacteria such as Thiobacillus produce sulfuric acid as a metabolic byproduct and are thus commonly used in biomining. These resourceful bacteria a. are anaerobically respiring chemoheterotrophs. b. are chemolithotrophs. c. are phototrophs. d. utilize hydrogen gas as an energy source. 16. All of the following events occur when oxygenic phototrophs utilize non- cyclic photophosphorylation EXCEPT a. NADPH is produced. b. electrons are stripped from water to replenish the electrons at the reaction center chlorophyll of photosystem II. c. ATP is synthesized. d. Electrons from the reaction center chlorophyll of Photosystem I are transferred back to this reaction center chlorophyll after traveling through the photosynthetic electron transport chain. 17. Which statement/s regarding DNA polymerase is/are TRUE? a. DNA polymerase synthesizes DNA in the 3’ to 5’ direction adding new nucleotides to the open 5’ phosphate. b. The next nucleotide that DNA polymerase would add to the elongating chain would be dTTP. c. Unlike RNA polymerase, DNA polymerase requires a primer in order to begin synthesis of a strand of DNA. d. all of the above e. b and c 7 18. During replication of the E. coli chromosome, Okazaki fragments a. are formed during the synthesis of the leading strand. b. are formed during the synthesis of the lagging strand. c. are synthesized from the amino to the carboxyl terminus by a special DNA polymerase called topoisomerase. d. seal the nicks between newly transcribed RNA primers. 19. Which events occur during the initiation phase of transcription a. The sigma factor of RNA polymerase recognizes the promoter. b. The rho enzyme wraps ssRNA around itself. c. The 30S subunit of the ribosome binds to a sequence on the mRNA called the Shine-Dalgarno sequence. d. all of the above 20. With regards to procaryotic translation, the term wobble refers to a. the tentative association between the 30S and 50S subunit. b. the fact that tRNAs can recognize more than one codon. c. the translocation of the ribosome. d. the fact that RNA can be translated by several ribosomes at once. 8 This part of the exam is worth 60 points. Every question (21-29) is worth 10 points so you must choose to answer six questions. Please circle the six questions that you choose. These are the only questions that will be graded. 21. Metabolism The TCA intermediate, oxaloacetate, is the building block for the synthesis of amino acids such as lysine, methionine and threonine (shown below): a. (3 points) Is this pathway (by which Met and Thr are synthesized) anabolic or catabolic? Is it endergonic or exergonic? Is it oxidative or reductive? This is an anabolic, endergonic, and reductive process. It is a synthesis in which NADPH and ATP are consumed. b. (3 points) Which enzyme on the figure above would you expect to be most likely regulated by feedback inhibition? Which molecule might you expect to act as the effector? Enzyme 1 or enzyme 2 would likely be regulated because they catalyze steps early in the pathway and, for enzyme 2, a step during which ATP is consumed.
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