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1 Chapter 3 The Molecules of Life

2 Biology and Society: Got Lactose? Lactose is the main sugar found in milk. Lactose intolerance is the inability to properly digest lactose. Instead of lactose being broken down and absorbed in the small intestine, lactose is broken down by bacteria in the large intestine, producing gas and discomfort.

3 ORGANIC COMPOUNDS A cell is mostly water. The rest of the cell consists mainly of carbon-based molecules. Carbon forms large, complex, and diverse molecules necessary for life s functions. Organic compounds are carbon-based molecules.

4 Carbon Chemistry Carbon is a versatile atom. It has four electrons in an outer shell that holds eight electrons. Carbon can share its electrons with other atoms to form up to four covalent bonds.

5 Carbon Chemistry The simplest organic compounds are hydrocarbons, which contain only carbon and hydrogen atoms. The simplest hydrocarbon is methane, a single carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms.

6 Carbon Chemistry Larger hydrocarbons form fuels for engines. Hydrocarbons of fat molecules are important fuels for our bodies. C8H18 CH 3 (CH 2 ) 16 CO 2 H

7 Carbon Chemistry Each type of organic molecule has a unique three-dimensional shape. The shapes of organic molecules relate to their functions. The groups of atoms that usually participate in chemical reactions are called functional groups. Two common examples are hydroxyl groups (-OH) and carboxyl groups (-COOH).

8 Giant Molecules from Smaller Building Blocks On a molecular scale, many of life s molecules are gigantic, earning the name macromolecules. Three categories of macromolecules are carbohydrates proteins nucleic acids Lipids are technically not macromolecules

9 Giant Molecules from Smaller Building Blocks Most macromolecules are polymers. Polymers are made by stringing together many smaller molecules called monomers.

10 A dehydration reaction links two monomers together OH and removes a molecule of water H H 2 O

11 Giant Molecules from Smaller Building Blocks Organisms also have to break down macromolecules. Digestion breaks down macromolecules to make monomers available to your cells.

12 Giant Molecules from Smaller Building Blocks Hydrolysis breaks bonds between monomers, adds a molecule of water, and reverses the dehydration reaction.

13 LARGE BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES There are four categories of large biological molecules: carbohydrates lipids proteins nucleic acids

14 Carbohydrates Carbohydrates include sugars and polymers of sugar. small sugar molecules in energy drinks long starch molecules in spaghetti and French fries. molecules made up of C, H, and O in a 1:2:1 ratio

15 Carbohydrates In animals a primary source of dietary energy raw material for manufacturing other kinds of organic compounds. used for structural purposes In plants, carbohydrates serve as a building material for much of the plant body.

16 Carbohydrates 3 kinds of carbohydrates Monosaccharides Disaccharides Polysaccharides

17 Monosaccharides Monosaccharides simple sugars that cannot be broken down by hydrolysis into smaller sugars the monomers of carbohydrates. Common examples glucose in sports drinks fructose found in fruit.

18 Monosaccharides Monosaccharides are the main fuels for cellular work. In water, many monosaccharides form rings.

19 Monosaccharides Both glucose and fructose are found in honey. Glucose and fructose are isomers, molecules that have the same molecular formula but different structures. Isomers are like anagrams heart and earth

20 Disaccharides Disaccharide a double sugar constructed from two monosaccharides formed by a dehydration reaction. (C 12 H 22 O 11 ) 3

21 Figure 3.7a OH H Glucose Galactose H 2 O Lactose

22 Disaccharides Disaccharides include lactose in milk maltose in beer, malted milk shakes, and malted milk ball candy sucrose in table sugar

23 Disaccharides Sucrose the main carbohydrate in plant sap rarely used as a sweetener in processed foods in the United States. High-fructose corn syrup made by a commercial process that converts natural glucose in corn syrup to much sweeter fructose.

24 Disaccharides The United States is one of the world s leading markets for sweeteners. The average American consumes about 45 kg of sugar (about 100 lb) per year, mainly as sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup.

25 Polysaccharides Polysaccharides complex carbohydrates made of long chains of sugar units polymers of monosaccharides.

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27 Polysaccharides Starch is a familiar example of a polysaccharide is used by plant cells to store energy consists of long strings of glucose monomers. Potatoes and grains are major sources of starch in our diet.

28 Polysaccharides Glycogen used by animals cells to store energy converted to glucose when it is needed.

29 Polysaccharides Cellulose is the most abundant organic compound on Earth forms cable-like fibrils in the walls that enclose plant cells cannot be broken apart by most animals.

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31 Polysaccharides Monosaccharides and disaccharides dissolve readily in water. Cellulose does not dissolve in water, but water does stick to it!!! Almost all carbohydrates are hydrophilic, or water-loving, adhering water to their surface.

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33 Lipids Lipids consists of two categories; fats and steroids made up of mostly C and H atoms, some O atoms neither macromolecules nor polymers Hydrophobic = unable to mix with water.

34 Fats A typical fat, or triglyceride, consists of a glycerol molecule, joined with three fatty acid molecules, via a dehydration reaction.

35 Figure 3.11a H HO Fatty acid H 2 O Glycerol (a) A dehydration reaction linking a fatty acid to glycerol

36 Figure 3.11 H HO H 2 O Fatty acid Glycerol (a) A dehydration reaction linking a fatty acid to glycerol (b) A fat molecule with a glycerol head and three energy-rich hydrocarbon fatty acid tails

37 Figure 3.11b (b) A fat molecule with a glycerol head and three energy-rich hydrocarbon fatty acid tails

38 Fats Fats perform essential functions in the human body including energy storage more energy in fat than in carbs cushioning insulation plasma membrane of cells phospholipid bilayer

39 Fats If the carbon skeleton of a fatty acid has fewer than the maximum number of hydrogens, it is unsaturated; if it has the maximum number of hydrogens, it is saturated. A saturated fat has no double bonds all three of its fatty acids saturated.

40 Fats

41 Figure 3.12a Saturated Fats

42 Figure 3.12b Unsaturated Fats Margarine Plant oils Trans fats Omega-3 fats

43 Fats Most animal fats are saturated have a high proportion of saturated fatty acids can easily stack, tending to be solid at room temperature contribute to atherosclerosis, in which lipid-containing plaques build up along the inside walls of blood vessels.

44 Fats Most plant and fish oils tend to be high in unsaturated fatty acids liquid at room temperature.

45 Fats Hydrogenation adds hydrogen atoms to fatty acid tails converts unsaturated fats to saturated fats makes liquid fats solid at room temperature creates trans fat, a type of unsaturated fat that is particularly bad for your health trans fat levels of less than 0.5 grams per serving can be listed as 0 grams trans fat on the food label.

46 Steroids are very different from fats in structure and function. The carbon skeleton is bent to form four fused rings. Steroids vary in the functional groups attached to this set of rings, and these chemical variations affect their function. Steroids

47 Cholesterol is a key component of cell membranes the base steroid from which your body produces other steroids, such as estrogen and testosterone, which are chemical messengers. Steroids

48 Figure 3.13 Cholesterol can be converted by the body to Testosterone A type of estrogen

49 Proteins Proteins composed of C, H, N, O and S. are polymers constructed from amino acid monomers account for more than 50% of the dry weight of most cells perform most of the tasks required for life form enzymes, chemicals that change the rate of a chemical reaction without being changed in the process.

50 Keratin Structural Proteins (provide support)

51 Storage Proteins (provide amino acids for growth)

52 Contractile Proteins (help movement)

53 Transport Proteins (help transport substances)

54 Figure 3.15e Enzymes (help chemical reactions)

55 The Monomers of Proteins: Amino Acids All proteins are macromolecules constructed from a common set of 20 kinds of amino acids. Each amino acid consists of a central carbon atom bonded to four covalent partners. Three of those attachment groups are common to all amino acids: a carboxyl group (-COOH) an amino group (-NH 2 ) a hydrogen atom.

56 Figure 3.16a Amino group Carboxyl group Side group The general structure of an amino acid

57 Figure 3.16b Hydrophobic side group Hydrophilic side group Leucine Serine

58 Proteins as Polymers Cells link amino acids together by dehydration reactions forming peptide bonds creating long chains of amino acids called polypeptides.

59 Figure Carboxyl Amino OH H

60 Figure Carboxyl Amino OH H H 2 O Dehydration reaction Peptide bond

61 Proteins as Polymers Your body has tens of thousands of different kinds of protein each with a different function!!!! Proteins differ in their arrangement of amino acids. The specific sequence of amino acids in a protein is its primary structure.

62 Primary Structure Amino acid

63 Proteins as Polymers A slight change in the primary structure of a protein affects its ability to function. The substitution of one amino acid for another in hemoglobin causes sickle-cell disease, an inherited blood disorder.

64 SEM SEM Leu Normal red blood cell Normal hemoglobin Leu Sickled red blood cell Sickle-cell hemoglobin The sickle-cell disease occurs when the sixth amino acid, glutamic acid, is replaced by valine to change its structure and function; as such, sickle cell anemia is also known as E6V. Valine is hydrophobic, causing the haemoglobin to collapse in on itself occasionally. The structure is not changed otherwise. When enough haemoglobin collapses in on itself the red blood cells become sickle-shaped.

65 Protein Shape A functional protein consists of one or more polypeptide chains precisely twisted, folded, and coiled into a molecule of unique shape.

66 Protein Shape Proteins consisting of one polypeptide have three levels of structure. Proteins consisting of more than one polypeptide chain have a fourth level, quaternary structure.

67 Figure (a) Primary structure

68 Figure Amino acids (b) Secondary structure (a) Primary structure Pleated sheet Hydrogen bond Alpha helix

69 Figure Amino acids (b) Secondary structure (c) Tertiary structure (a) Primary structure Pleated sheet Hydrogen bond Polypeptide Alpha helix

70 Figure Amino acids (b) Secondary structure (c) Tertiary structure (d) Quaternary structure (a) Primary structure Pleated sheet Hydrogen bond Polypeptide A protein with four polypeptide subunits Alpha helix

71 Protein Shape A protein s three-dimensional shape typically recognizes and binds to another molecule enables the protein to carry out its specific function in a cell.

72 What Determines Protein Shape? A protein s shape is sensitive to the surrounding environment. An unfavorable change in temperature and/or ph can cause denaturation of a protein, in which it unravels and loses its shape. High fevers (above 104 F) in humans can cause some proteins to denature.

73 What Determines Protein Shape? Misfolded proteins are associated with Alzheimer s disease mad cow disease Parkinson s disease Sickle Cell Anemia

74 Nucleic Acids Nucleic acids are macromolecules that store information, provide the directions for building proteins, include DNA and RNA Deoxyribonucleic acid Ribonucleic acid

75 Nucleic Acids DNA resides in cells in long fibers called chromosomes. A gene is a specific stretch of DNA that programs the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide. The chemical code of DNA must be translated from nucleic acid language to protein language.

76 Gene DNA Nucleic acids RNA Amino acid Protein

77 Nucleic Acids Nucleic acids are polymers made from monomers called nucleotides. Each nucleotide has three parts: 1. a five-carbon sugar, 2. a phosphate group, and 3. a nitrogen-containing base. Nitrogen base Phosphate group 5-carbon sugar

78 Figure 3.23a Nitrogenous base (A, G, C, or T) Thymine (T) Phosphate group (a) Atomic structure Sugar (deoxyribose)

79 Figure 3.24 Adenine (A) Guanine (G) Thymine (T) Cytosine (C) Adenine (A) Guanine (G) Thymine (T) Cytosine (C) Space-filling model of DNA

80 Dehydration reactions link nucleotide monomers into long chains called polynucleotides, form covalent bonds between the sugar of one nucleotide and the phosphate of the next form a sugarphosphate backbone. Nitrogenous bases hang off the sugarphosphate backbone. Nucleic Acids

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82 Figure 3.25 Sugar-phosphate backbone C T G A Nucleotide Base pair A T T Hydrogen bond G A A T C A G T A T Bases C G A T (a) DNA strand (polynucleotide) (b) Double helix (two polynucleotide strands)

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84 Nucleic Acids Two strands of DNA join together to form a double helix. Bases along one DNA strand hydrogen-bond to bases along the other strand. The functional groups hanging off the base determine which bases pair up: A only pairs with T and G can only pair with C.

85 Nucleic Acids RNA, ribonucleic acid, is different from DNA. RNA uses the sugar ribose instead of deoxyribose RNA uses the base uracil (U) instead of thymine (T). RNA is usually single-stranded, but DNA usually exists as a double helix.

86 Figure 3.26 Nitrogenous base (A, G, C, or U) Uracil (U) Phosphate group Sugar (ribose)

87 ENZYMES are PROTEINS!! Metabolism is the total of all chemical reactions in an organism. Most metabolic reactions require the assistance of enzymes, proteins that speed up chemical reactions. All living cells contain thousands of different enzymes, each promoting a different chemical reaction.

88 Activation Energy Activation energy is the energy needed to get a reaction started. It works by activating the reactants triggering a chemical reaction. Enzymes reduce the amount of activation energy required to break bonds of reactant molecules. Small input needed to trigger a large output.

89 Figure 5.7a Energy Activation energy barrier Reactant Products (a) Without enzyme

90 Figure 5.7b Energy Enzyme Activation energy barrier reduced by enzyme Reactant Products (b) With enzyme

91 Induced Fit An enzyme is very selective in the reaction it catalyzes (a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of reaction) Each enzyme recognizes a substrate, a specific reactant molecule. The active site fits to the substrate, and the enzyme changes shape slightly. This interaction is called induced fit because the entry of the substrate induces the enzyme to change shape slightly.

92 Induced Fit Enzymes can function over and over again, a key characteristic of enzymes. Many enzymes are named for their substrates, but with an ase ending. Example = lactase.

93 Figure Active site 1 Ready for substrate Enzyme (sucrase)

94 Figure Substrate (sucrose) Active site 1 Ready for substrate 2 Substrate binding Enzyme (sucrase)

95 Figure Substrate (sucrose) Active site 1 Ready for substrate 2 Substrate binding Enzyme (sucrase) H 2 O 3 Catalysis

96 Figure Substrate (sucrose) Active site 1 Ready for substrate 2 Substrate binding Enzyme (sucrase) Fructose Glucose H 2 O 4 Product released 3 Catalysis

97 Enzyme Inhibitors Enzyme inhibitors can prevent metabolic reactions by binding to the active site near the active site, resulting in changes to the enzyme s shape so that the active site no longer accepts the substrate.

98 Figure 5.10a Substrate Active site Enzyme (a) Enzyme and substrate binding normally

99 Figure 5.10b Inhibitor Active site Substrate Enzyme (b) Enzyme inhibition by a substrate imposter

100 Figure 5.10c Active site Substrate Inhibitor Enzyme (c) Inhibition of an enzyme by a molecule that causes the active site to change shape

101 Enzyme Inhibitors Some products of a reaction may inhibit the enzyme required for its production. This is called feedback regulation. It prevents the cell from wasting resources. Many beneficial drugs work by inhibiting enzymes. Penicillin blocks the active site of an enzyme that bacteria use in making cell walls. Ibuprofen inhibits an enzyme involved in sending pain signals. Many cancer drugs inhibit enzymes that promote cell division.

102 The Process of Science: Does Lactose Intolerance Have a Genetic Basis? Observation: Most lactose-intolerant people have a normal version of the lactase gene. Question: What is the genetic basis for lactose intolerance? Hypothesis: Lactose-intolerant people have a mutation but not within the lactase gene Pearson Education, Inc.

103 The Process of Science: Does Lactose Intolerance Have a Genetic Basis? Prediction: A mutation would be found near the lactase gene. Experiment: Genes of 196 lactose-intolerant people were examined. Results: Researchers found a 100% correlation between lactose intolerance and a nucleotide at a site approximately 14,000 nucleotides away from the lactase gene Pearson Education, Inc.

104 Figure 3.27 DNA Lactase gene C or T Human cell Chromosome 2 Section of chromosome 2

105 Evolution Connection: The Evolution of Lactose Intolerance in Humans Most people are lactose-intolerant as adults. Lactose intolerance is found in 80% of African Americans and Native Americans, 90% of Asian Americans, but only 10% of Americans of northern European descent Pearson Education, Inc.

106 Evolution Connection: The Evolution of Lactose Intolerance in Humans Lactose tolerance appears to have evolved in northern European cultures that relied upon dairy products. Ethnic groups in East Africa that rely upon dairy products are also lactose tolerant but due to different mutations Pearson Education, Inc.

107 Figure 3.28

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