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CHAPTER FIVE. The Structure and Function of Macro Molecules. What are the structure and function of the major macromolecules?. Proteins Fats Carbohydrates Nucleic acids Condensation reaction Hydrolysis. Four Main Classes of Macro Molecules!. Carbohydrates Proteins Lipids Nucleic Acids.
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CHAPTER FIVE The Structure and Function of Macro Molecules
What are the structure and function of the major macromolecules? • Proteins • Fats • Carbohydrates • Nucleic acids • Condensation reaction • Hydrolysis
Four Main Classes of Macro Molecules! • Carbohydrates • Proteins • Lipids • Nucleic Acids
Building Blocks • Carbs Simple Sugars, monomers (monosaccharides) • Proteins Amino Acids • Nucleic Acids Nucleotides (A-T C-G) • Lipids: NOT considered polymer • Glycerol head and 3 hydrocarbon tails
Reactions • Condensation or dehydration • 2 Monomers Polymers • Lose a molecule of water: H from 1, OH from another. • Requires Energy (Enzyme) • In Protein specifically this is a peptide bond. • In carbohydrates this is a glycosidic
More Reactions.. • Hydrolysis Reaction .. • Hydrolysis (Water …… To Break) • Polymer 2 monomers • H2O Added, Energy Released
Carbohydrates • Monosaccharide to monosaccharide = glycosidic linkage, dehydration reaction. • Empirical Formula C6H12O6 • Carbonyl: • Aldehyde: dbl bond at end of chain: glucose • Ketone: dble bond in middle: fructose
Carbohydrates • Rings: form of most sugars • Glycosidic linkages: between monomers • Polysaccharides: 100’s – 1,000’s of mono’s
disaccharides • Disaccharides: • Glucose + glucose = maltose • Glucose + fructose = sucrose Sucrose: table sugar, the form plants use to move sugar from leaf to root.
Polysaccharides • Starch: polymer of glucose (1-4 alpha) linkage • Amylose: simplest starch(no branches) • Amylopectin: more complex (branches) • Glycogen: storage in animals (liver and muscle)
Starch • Plastids in plant leaf (chloroplasts) • Alpha configuration
Cellulose • Cellulose: insoluble fiber due to configuration of glucose monomers • Microfibrils: cellulose fibers HYDROGEN bond to each other. Make cables • Wood: rich in cellulose
Cellulose • Cellulose: Straight beta configuration of glucose • Cellulose: most abundant organic material 100billion tons/year.
Cellulose digestion • Who can digest cellulose? • Microbes: bacteria in cow’s rumen (1st stomach) • Microbes: bacteria in gut of termites • Some fungi
Chitin • Similar to cellulose • Contains nitrogen • Used to make exoskeleton of • Arthropods • Spider • Crustaceans • Fungi: build with chitin
Lipids • Fats: • Triglyceride: glycerol + 3 fatty acids (ester linkage) • Glycerol: 3 OH • Fatty acid: • Non polar • hydrophobic • Phospholipid • steroids
Phospholipids • Phospholipid: • 2 hydrocarbon tails (no charge) • 1 phosphate group (negative charge) • The non-polar tails and polar phosphate cause phospholipids to form bilayer when placed in water: hydrophilic phos. Out, tails in.
Steroids • Steroids: • Function at nucleus of cell • Carbon skeleton of 4 fused rings
Protein synthesis • Monmers: amino acids – polypeptides • Site: Ribosomes in cytosol or attached to endoplasmic reticulum. • DNA in nucleus. mRNA carries information out into cytosol. • 1 gene = 1 polypeptide
Protein • 1. peptide bonds between amino acids • 2ndhydrogen bonds btwn R-groups cause alpha helix and beta pleating • 3rdhydrogen, van der waals, disulfide bonds create globular shape • 4thhydrogen, van der waals, disulfide bonds put multiple polypeptides together.
Proteins: form and function Enzyme - substrate Tata box binding protein
Protein: form and function collagen aquaporin
Nucleic acids • Nucleic acid made up of • nucleotides • nitrogenous base • pentose sugar (5 carbon sugar) • phosphate • Nitrogenous base: • pyrimidine: 1 ring (cytosine, thymine, uracil) • purines: 2 rings (adenine, guanine)
Nucleic Acids • Polymer of nucleotides joined by phosphodiester bonds (phos. Of 1 to sugar of the next) • The order of the nitrogenous bases in a gene specify the amino acid sequence of a protein • 3 nitro bases = 1 amino acid
RNA/DNA • RNA single strand • Backbone of phosphate and ribose sugar • DNA double strand backbone on outside bases: hydrogen bonds in middle • Always adenine-thymine guanine- cytosine