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Chapter 3 Multiple choice Questions
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Phosphorylation is which of the following?
Production of phosphate.
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Addition of a phosphate group.
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Destruction of phosphate.
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Removal of a phosphate.
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The three amino acids most commonly phosphorylated in proteins are:
serine, cysteine and lysine.
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serine, threonine and lysine.
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serine, threonine and tyrosine.
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serine, threonine and cysteine.
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The enzyme which removes phosphate groups from proteins is called:
phosphodiesterase.
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dehydrogenase.
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kinase.
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phosphatase.
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In the reaction in which a kinase adds a phosphate group to an amino acid on a protein, the phosphate group is donated by which of the following?
NADH.
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GTP.
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ATP.
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ADP.
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cAMP has many of its downstream effects through which of the following enzymes?
PKA.
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PKB.
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PKC.
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PKG.
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Hydrogen peroxide is likely to cause the oxidation of which of the following amino acids in a protein?
Lysine.
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Serine.
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Tyrosine.
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Cysteine.
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Nitric oxide may cause which of the following direct modifications of proteins?
Serine phosphorylation.
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Dephosphorylation.
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Oxidation.
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S
-nitrosation.
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Which of the following is most likely to cause the direct activation of the enzyme PKC?
DAG.
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cGMP.
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cAMP.
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InsP
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The active form of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) is most likely to have which of the following structures?
Monomer.
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Dimer.
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Heterotrimer.
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Heterodimer.
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The protein RAF is which of the following?
MAP kinase.
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MAP kinase kinase kinase.
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Cyclase.
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G protein.
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