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MCB C100A/Chem C130, Spring 2024 Problem Set 3 (Due at beginning of class Weds 2/14) Question 1. (2 pts ea) Try to answer these True/False questions without looking up the answer first: (i) Choose the amino acid substitution that results in the greatest change of hydrophobicity: (a) F -> Y (b) D -> Q (c) V -> L (d) Y -> K (e) E -> H (ii) Ion pairs buried in the hydrophobic core of a protein have much more favorable interactions than ion pairs on the protein surface. Choose the best explanation: (a) Water competes with the protein backbone for hydrogen bonds (b) The dipoles of water molecules screen ions, reducing their effective charge (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) The statement is false. Water has no effect on ion pairs. (iii) The simplest form of a Ramachandran plot that works fairly well uses a hard-sphere model instead of a van der Waals energy function. (TRUE/ FALSE) (iv) Which statement is NOT true about peptide bonds in proteins? (a) Peptide bonds are similar in chemistry to the side chains of Asn and Gln. (b) Peptides adopt only one preferred dihedral angle due to pi-conjugation. (c) Peptides can be modeled with a partial negative charge on the carbonyl O. (d) Rotation about the C-N bond in peptides is slow relative to rotation around the adjacent sp 3 -hybridized backbone bonds. (v) The probability of finding a particular 6 amino sequence in a protein, assuming all amino acids are used in equal abundance in proteins, is: (a) 1 in 20 6 (b) 1 in 6 20 (c) 6ln(20) (d) 20ln(6) (e) None of the above (vi) Hydropathy plots use a running average of 19 amino acids on the assumption that a transmembrane spanning peptide chain will adopt an alpha helix structure (TRUE / FALSE)
MCB C100A/Chem C130, Spring 2024 Question 2. (11 pts) Consider the BLOSUM62 matrix below. You have the amino acid sequences of 4 loop regions from a transmembrane protein of a recently discovered, but long extinct, species. You want to know where to place it on a phylogenic tree. A) (6 pts) Which one of the loop regions do you expect to be most highly conserved? Use the BLOSUM-62 matrix above and give numerical evidence to justify your choice. (i) SEQLF (ii) WHERG (iii) RLKNF (iv) SAHMT
MCB C100A/Chem C130, Spring 2024 Question 2 (cont’d) B) (5 pts) Consider a fictitious amino acid with the following BLOSUM entries. Circle and name the AA below you think is most likely to substitute for the fictitious AA. Briefly explain your reasoning.
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