Protein Purification MCQs

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Amino acids have a positive and negative charge. Molecules with this characteristic are known as?
Zwitterionic
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What character of the peptide bond provides stability to peptide chains?
Partial double bond character
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B-pleated sheets in a protein structure are stabilised by?
Inter chain H-bonds
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The shape a protein finally assumes is driven by?
Accommodating internal hydrophobic amino acid side chains
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Discrete areas in a protein structure which convey functionality are known as
Motifs and Domains
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The isoelectric point of an amino acid or protein is given by the symbol?
pl
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Electrophoresis is incomplete electrolysis. What determines the overall movement velocity of a particle subjected to an electrical field?
All of the answers
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Non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (native PAGE) separates protein according to their ...
Charge and mass
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Electrophoresis in the presence of a detergent (SDS-PAGE) separates polypeptides by ...
their size
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Samples for electrophoresis in the presence of a detergent (SDS-PAGE) are boiled with 2-mercaptoethanol to break?
Covalent disulphide bonds
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In a proteins' secondary structure, an alpha helix is...
a right-handed helix
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There are? amino acids in each turn of the alpha helix
3.6
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Beta strands in a proteins structure are stabilised by
inter chain H-bonds
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What is the approximate time for a haemoglobin alpha subunit (Mr 16,000) to be synthesised?
90 sec
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Polypeptides are
more than 10 amino acids linked together
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What is the minimum pH that needs to be used to make a protein with a pI of 6.5 move to the anode in non-denaturing PAGE
6.75-7.0
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The movement of proteins in SDS-PAGE is related to...
The log10 of their molecular weight
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In isoelectric focusing proteins will
Move depending on their charge
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In a protein's secondary structure an alpha helix is...
a right-handed helix
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Proteins that share the same domain have
identical function
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After electrophoresis proteins can be stained with ...
All answers
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In 2D electrophoresis what electrophoretic techniques are used and in what order?
IEF followed by SDS-PAGE
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What technique can be used to determine the molecular weight of a protein sample?
SDS-PAGE, Size-exclusion chromatography and Mass spectroscopy
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The area of Bioinformatics combines
computing and biology
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What techniques can be used to sequence a protein?
Mass spectrometry and Edman degradation
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What types of detectors are used in mass spectroscopy?
Time of flight
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What enzyme is used to degrade a protein sample prior to mass spec analysis?
Trypsin
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