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| Angelina Total Posts: 130 | Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 05:03 am Essential amino acids Quote: PVT. TIM HALL: Phe Val Thr Trp Ile Met His Arg Leu Lys · Pvt. is short for Private in the military. · Arg and His are considered semiessential. · Alternatively: "MATT VIL PHLy". Dicarboxylic acids (alpha, omega) C2 through C10: common names Quote: "Oh My, Such Good Apple Pie, Sweet As Sugar!": Oxalic Malonic Succinic Glutaric Adipic Pimelic Suberic Azelaic Sebacic Vitamins: which are fat soluble Quote: KADE: Vitamin K Vitamin A Vitamin D Vitamin E Na/K pump: concentrations of Na vs. K on inside/outside of cell, pump action, number of molecules moved Quote: HIKIN': There is a HIgh K concentration INside the cell. From this can deduce that the Na/K pump pumps K into cell and Na out of cell. Alternatively: When I was learning this pump (circa 1992), a band that was "in" was Kris Kross, and a band that was "out" was "Sha Na Na Na": So pump moves K K (2 K) in and Na Na Na (3 Na) out. · Sadly, as infectious as their debut album was, Kris Kross can really no longer be classed as "in". Glycolysis steps Quote: "Goodness Gracious, Father Franklin Did Go By Picking Pumpkins (to) Prepare Pies": Glucose Glucose-6-P Fructose-6-P Fructose-1,6-diP Dihydroxyacetone-P Glyceraldehyde-P 1,3-Biphosphoglycerate 3-Phosphoglycerate 2-Phosphoglycerate (to) Phosphoenolpyruvate [PEP] Pyruvate · 'Did', 'By' and 'Pies' tell you the first part of those three: di-, bi-, and py-. · 'PrEPare' tells location of PEP in the process. Citric acid cycle compounds Quote: "Oh Citric Acid Is Of (course) A SiLly STupid Funny Molecule": Oxaloacetate Citrate Aconitate Isocitrate Oxalosuccinate Alpha-ketoglutarate SuccinyL-CoA SuccinaTe Fumarate Malate · SilLy and sTupid used to differentiate succinyL and succinaTe B vitamin names Quote: "The Rhythm Nearly Proved Contagious": · In increasing order: Thiamine (B1) Riboflavin (B2) Niacin (B3) Pyridoxine (B6) Cobalamin (B12) AcetylCoA and acetacetylCoA: amino acids forming them Quote: "A Lighter Lease" (A LyTr LeIs): A=AcetylCoA or Acetoacetyl CoA Ly=Lysine Tr=Tryptophan Le=Leucine Is=Isoleucine Fabry's disease Quote: FABRY'S: Foam cells found in glomeruli and tubules/ Febrile episodes Alpha galactosidase A deficiency/ Angiokeratomas Burning pain in extremities/ BUN increased in serum/ Boys Renal failure YX genotype (male, X linked recessive) Sphingolipidoses Citric acid cycle compounds Quote: "Can I Keep Selling Sex For Money, Officer?": Citrate Isocitrate alpha Ketogluterate Succinyl CoA Succinate Fumerate Malate Oxaloacetate Hypervitaminosis A: signs and symptoms Quote: "Increased Vitamin A makes you HARD": Headache/ Hepatomegaly Anorexia/ Alopecia Really painful bones Dry skin/ Drowsiness Golgi complex: functions Quote: "Golgi Distributes A SPAM": Distributes proteins and lipids from ER Add mannose onto specific lysosome proteins Sulfation of sugars and slected tyrosine Proteoglycan assembly Add O-oligosugars to serine and threnonine Modify N-ologosugars on aspara Citric acid cycle compounds Quote: "Oh! Can I Keep Some Succinate For Myself?": Oxaloacetate Citrate Isocitrate Ketoglutarate Succinyl coA Succinate Fumarate Malate G protein type for respective receptors Quote: "KISS and KICK till you're SICK of SEX" (QISS and QIQ till you're SIQ of SQS): · This gives the G-protein type (Gq, Gi, or Gs) for all the receptors. Receptors are in alphabetical order: alpha1=Q alpha2=I beta1=S beta3=S M1=Q M2=I M3=Q D1=S D2=I H1=Q H2=S V1=Q V2=S Folate deficiency: causes Quote: A FOLIC DROP: Alcoholism Folic acid antagonists Oral contraceptives Low dietary intake Infection with Giardia Celiac sprue Dilatin Relative folate deficiency Old Pregnant Metabolic acidosis (normal anion-gap): causes Quote: · With hyperkalemia: RAISE K+: RTA type 4 Aldosterone or mineralocorticord deficiency Iatrogenic: NH4Cl, HCl "Stenosis": obstructive uropathy Early uremia · With hypokalemia: ReDUCE K+: Renal TA type 1 and 2 Diarrhoea Urine diversion into gut Carbonate anhydrase inhibitor Ex-hyperventilation this song is awesome Amino acids: properties · Sung to the Beverly Hillbillies melody: Quote: Come an' listen to my story about the a-mi-nos Five Al-i-phats kick off our show Glycine, Alanine, Valine and then Leucine and Iso make up half of ten Well the next thing you know are three aromats phenylalanine(F) is right off the bat tYrosine has alcohol next to its ring And tryptophan(W) has indole double ring thing. Sulfur in Cysteine; it loves to bond Sulfur Methionine is much more a snob Alcoholic Serine, well wouldn't you know, And Threonine's OH gives a warm glow. Acid-aspartic(D) and glutamic(E) are ionized With pK of 4, their protons are lysed, asparagine(N) and glutamine(Q) play a different role With amides they're neutral but they both have poles lysine(K) and aRginine are the basic kind, But Histidine's imidazole can't make up its mind, Proline, the last one, coming at the end It's imine, an oddball, proteins use to bend |
| ridear Total Posts: 3 | Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 09:33 pm Fluoroacetate inhibits the citrate->cis-aconitate, and isocitrate->cis-aconitate reactions. Mnemonic: brushing a citrus fruit with a cleanisng fluoride toothpaste prevents the deterioration of such this citrus fruit (citrate) to a toxic conium plant (conitate). This is from webpage dedicated to visual and narrative mnemonics for biochemistry, particularly to the Krebs cycle and urea cycle among others. Extracted with permission from https://www.wikinem.org/index.phpThe_Krebs_cycle |
| ridear Total Posts: 3 | Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 09:35 pm Fluoroacetate inhibits the citrate->cis-aconitate, and isocitrate->cis-aconitate reactions. Mnemonic: brushing a citrus fruit with a cleanisng fluoride toothpaste prevents the deterioration/transformation of such this citrus fruit (citrate) into a toxic conium plant (conitate). This is from a webpage dedicated to visual and narrative mnemonics for biochemistry, particularly to the Krebs cycle and urea cycle among others. Extracted with permission from https://www.wikinem.org/index.phpThe_Krebs_cycle |