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The Race to Discover DNA By Kristie Akl

Central Dogma of Molecular Biology! Scientists call this the: DNA DNA Central Dogma of Molecular Biology! RNA RNA Protein Protein

How do we know that all of our genetic information comes from DNA? What type of experiment would you design to determine that DNA is the source of all genetic information?

The smooth colonies must carry the disease! Griffith’s Experiment with Pneumonia and the accidental discovery of Transformation Frederick Griffiths was a bacteriologist studying pneumonia He discovered two types of bacteria: Smooth colonies Rough colonies CONCLUSION: The smooth colonies must carry the disease!

Griffith’s Experiment with Pneumonia and the accidental discovery of Transformation When heat was applied to the deadly smooth type… And injected into a mouse… The mouse lived!

Griffith’s Experiment with Pneumonia and the accidental discovery of Transformation Griffith injected the heat-killed type and the non-deadly rough type of bacteria. The bacteria “transformed” itself from the heated non-deadly type to the deadly type.

Griffith’s Experiment did not prove that DNA was responsible for transformation How would you design an experiment to prove that DNA was responsible for transformation?

Avery, McCarty, and MacLeod Repeated Griffith’s Experiment Oswald Avery Maclyn McCarty Colin MacLeod

To the Heat-Killed Smooth Type, added enzymes that destroyed… Avery, McCarty, and MacLeod Added the non-deadly Rough Type of Bacteria to the Heat-Killed Smooth Type To the Heat-Killed Smooth Type, added enzymes that destroyed… Carbohydrates Lipids Proteins RNA DNA

DNA was the transforming factor! S-Type Carbohydrates Destroyed S-Type Lipids Destroyed S-Type Proteins Destroyed S-Type RNA Destroyed S-Type DNA Destroyed Conclusion: DNA was the transforming factor!

The Hershey-Chase Experiment Protein coat Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase worked with a bacteriophage: A virus that invades bacteria. It consists of a DNA core and a protein coat DNA

Protein coats of bacteriophages labeled with Sulfur-35 Hershey and Chase mixed the radioactively-labeled viruses with the bacteria Bacterium Phage The viruses infect the bacterial cells. Bacterium DNA of bacteriophages labeled with Phosphorus-32

Protein coats of bacteriophages labeled with Sulfur-35 Separated the viruses from the bacteria by agitating the virus-bacteria mixture in a blender DNA of bacteriophages labeled with Phosphorus-32

Protein coats of bacteriophages labeled with Sulfur-35 Centrifuged the mixture so that the bacteria would form a pellet at the bottom of the test tube Measured the radioactivity in the pellet and in the liquid DNA of bacteriophages labeled with Phosphorus-32

DNA carries the genetic code! The Hershey-Chase results reinforced the Avery, McCarty, and MacLeod conclusion: DNA carries the genetic code! However, there were still important details to uncover…

How did DNA: 1. Store information? 2. Duplicate itself easily? These questions would be answered by discovering DNA’s structure

The Race to Discover DNA’s Structure

The Race to Discover DNA’s Structure Linus Pauling 1940s Discovered the alpha-helical structure of proteins.

The Race to Discover DNA’s Structure Why do you think the bases match up this way? 1950 Chargaff’s Rule: Equal amounts of Adenine and Thymine, and equal amounts of Guanine and Cytosine Purine + Purine = Too wide Pyrimidine + Pyrimidine = Too Narrow Erwin Chargaff Purine + Pyrimidine = Perfect Fit from X-ray data

The Race to Discover DNA’s Structure X-Ray diffraction image of DNA taken by Franklin in 1951 Maurice Wilkins Rosalind Franklin

The Race to Discover DNA’s Structure 1953 Compiled data from previous scientists to build a double-helical model of DNA James Watson Francis Crick

The Race to Discover DNA’s Structure was Over DNA is made up of: Four nucleotides: Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine These follow the rules of base-pairing: Adenine bonds with Thymine Guanine bonds with Cytosine A sugar-phosphate backbone DNA is arranged in an double-helix

DNA Replication The double helix did explain how DNA copies itself We will study this process, DNA replication, in more detail

How does DNA replicate? Hypotheses: Conservative Semi-Conservative Have students stand in one of three corners in the lab: Conservative; Semi-Conservative and Dispersive. Have them design an experiment that would prove their point. Conservative Semi-Conservative Dispersive

Meselson-Stahl Experiment Bacteria cultured in medium containing a heavy isotope of Nitrogen (15N)

Meselson-Stahl Experiment Bacteria transferred to a medium containing elemental Nitrogen (14N)

Meselson-Stahl Experiment DNA sample centrifuged after First replication

Meselson-Stahl Experiment DNA sample centrifuged after Second replication

DNA Replication The “parent” molecule has two complementary strands of DNA. Each is base paired by hydrogen bonding with its specific partner: A with T G with C

DNA Replication The first step in replication is the separation of the two strands.

DNA Replication Each parental strand now serves as a template that determines the order of the bases along a new complementary strand.

DNA Replication The nucleotides are connected to form the sugar-phosphate backbones of the new strands. Each “daughter” DNA molecule consists of one parental strand and one new strand.

The Race to Replicate DNA Two teams: A and B Individually, each team member will run to the board to add a nucleotide to the “unzipped” strand of DNA. The first team to finish base-pairing their DNA correctly will win the game. Run to the board game