Introduction of Biomolecule

A biomolecule or biological molecule is molecule that is present in

living organisms, including large macromolecules such
as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids, as well as small
molecules such as primary metabolites, secondary metabolites, and natural
products. A more general name for this class of material is biological materials.
Biomolecules are usually endogenous but may also be exogenous. For
example, pharmaceutical drugs may be natural
products or semisynthetic (biopharmaceuticals) or they may be totally synthetic.

Biology and its subsets of biochemistry and molecular biology study biomolecules
and their reactions. Most biomolecules are organic compounds, and just
four elements—oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen—make up 96% of
the human body's mass. But many other elements, such as the various biometals,
are present in small amounts.

Contents
1. Types of biomolecules
2. Nucleosides and nucleotides
2.1DNA and RNA structure
3. Saccharides
4. Lipids
5. Amino acids
6.1Protein structure
6. Furanose ring of glucose
7. Pyranose ring of glucose
Types of biomolecules
A diverse range of biomolecules exist, including:

 Small molecules:
 Lipids, fatty acids, glycolipids, sterols, gs
 Vitamins
 Hormones, neurotransmitters
 Metabolites
 Monomers, oligomers and polymers:
Covalent
Polymerization p bond name
Biomonomers Bio-oligo ! Biopolymers
rocess between
monomers

Polypeptides, proteins
Amino acids Oligopeptides Polycondensation Peptide bond
(hemoglobin...)

Polysaccharides Glycosidic
Monosaccharides Oligosaccharides Polycondensation
(cellulose...) bond

Polyterpenes: cis-1,4-
polyisoprene natural
Isoprene Terpenes Polyaddition
rubber and trans-1,4-
polyisoprene gutta-percha

Polynucleotides, nucleic Phosphodiester

Nucleotides Oligonucleotides
acids (DNA, RNA) bond
Nucleosides and nucleotides
Nucleosides are molecules formed by attaching a nucleobase to a ribose or
deoxyribose ring.

Examples of these
include cytidine (C), uridine (U), adenosine (A), guanosine (G), thymidine (T)
and inosine (I).

Nucleosides can be phosphorylated by specific kinases in the cell,

producing nucleotides. Both DNA and RNA are polymers, consisting of long,
linear molecules assembled by polymerase enzymes from repeating structural
units, or monomers, of mononucleotides. DNA uses the deoxynucleotides C, G, A,
and T, while RNA uses the ribonucleotides (which have an extra hydroxyl(OH)
group on the pentose ring) C, G, A, and U. Modified bases are fairly common
(such as with methyl groups on the base ring), as found in ribosomal RNA
or transfer RNAs or for discriminating the new from old strands of DNA after
replication.

Each nucleotide is made of an acyclic nitrogenous base, a pentose and one to

three phosphate groups. They contain carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and
phosphorus. They serve as sources of chemical energy (adenosine
triphosphate and guanosine triphosphate), participate in cellular signaling (cyclic
guanosine monophosphate and cyclic adenosine monophosphate), and are
incorporated into important cofactors of enzymatic reactions (coenzyme A, flavin
adenine dinucleotide, flavin mononucleotide, and nicotinamide adenine
dinucleotide phosphate).
DNA and RNA structure
DNA structure is dominated by the well-known double helix formed by Watson-
Crick base-pairing of C with G and A with T. This is known as B-form DNA, and
is overwhelmingly the most favorable and common state of DNA; its highly
specific and stable base-pairing is the basis of reliable genetic information storage.
DNA can sometimes occur as single strands (often needing to be stabilized by
single-strand binding proteins) or as A-form or Z-form helices, and occasionally in
more complex 3D structures such as the crossover at Holliday junctions during
DNA replication.

Stereo 3D image of a group I intron ribozyme (PDB file 1Y0Q); gray lines show
base pairs; ribbon arrows show double-helix regions, blue to red from 5' to 3' end;
white ribbon is an RNA product.

RNA, in contrast, forms large and complex 3D tertiary structures reminiscent of

proteins, as well as the loose single strands with locally folded regions that
constitute messenger RNA molecules. Those RNA structures contain many
stretches of A-form double helix, connected into definite 3D arrangements by
single-stranded loops, bulges, and junctions. Examples are tRNA,
ribosomes, ribozymes, and riboswitches. These complex structures are facilitated
by the fact that RNA backbone has less local flexibility than DNA but a large set
of distinct conformations, apparently because of both positive and negative
interactions of the extra OH on the ribose. Structured RNA molecules can do
highly specific binding of other molecules and can themselves be recognized
specifically; in addition, they can perform enzymatic catalysis (when they are
known as "ribozymes", as initially discovered by Tom Cech and colleagues.

Saccharides
Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates with only one simple
sugar. They essentially contain an aldehyde or ketone group in their structure. The
presence of an aldehyde group in a monosaccharide is indicated by the prefix aldo-
. Similarly, a ketone group is denoted by the prefix keto-. Examples of
monosaccharides are the hexoses glucose, fructose, and galactose and pentoses,
ribose, and deoxyribose Consumed fructose and glucose have different rates of
gastric emptying, are differentially absorbed and have different metabolic fates,
providing multiple opportunities for 2 different saccharides to differentially affect
food intake. Most saccharides eventually provide fuel for cellular respiration.

Disaccharides are formed when two monosaccharides, or two single simple

sugars, form a bond with removal of water. They can be hydrolyzed to yield their
saccharin building blocks by boiling with dilute acid or reacting them with
appropriate enzymes.[1] Examples of disaccharides include sucrose, maltose,
and lactose.

Polysaccharides are polymerized monosaccharides, or complex carbohydrates.

They have multiple simple sugars. Examples are starch, cellulose, and glycogen.
They are generally large and often have a complex branched connectivity. Because
of their size, polysaccharides are not water-soluble, but their many hydroxy groups
become hydrated individually when exposed to water and some polysaccharides
form thick colloidal dispersions when heated in water. Shorter polysaccharides,
with 3 - 10 monomers, are called oligosaccharides. A fluorescent indicator-
displacement molecular imprinting sensor was developed for discriminating
saccharides. It successfully discriminated three brands of orange juice beverage.
The change in fluorescence intensity of the sensing films resulting is directly
related to the saccharide concentration.

Lipids
Lipids (oleaginous) are chiefly fatty acid esters, and are the basic building blocks
of biological membranes. Another biological role is energy storage
(e.g., triglycerides). Most lipids consist of a polar or hydrophilic head (typically
glycerol) and one to three nonpolar or hydrophobic fatty acid tails, and therefore
they are amphiphilic. Fatty acids consist of unbranched chains of carbon atoms that
are connected by single bonds alone (saturated fatty acids) or by both single
and double bonds (unsaturated fatty acids). The chains are usually 14-24 carbon
groups long, but it is always an even number.

For lipids present in biological membranes, the hydrophilic head is from one of
three classes:

 Glycolipids, whose heads contain an oligosaccharide with 1-15 saccharide

residues.
 Phospholipids, whose heads contain a positively charged group that is linked to
the tail by a negatively charged phosphate group.
 Sterols, whose heads contain a planar steroid ring, for example, cholesterol.

Other lipids include prostaglandins and leukotrienes which are both 20-carbon
fatty acyl units synthesized from arachidonic acid. They are also known as fatty
acids
Amino acids
Amino acids contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups.
(In biochemistry, the term amino acid is used when referring to those amino acids
in which the amino and carboxylate functionalities are attached to the same carbon,
plus proline which is not actually an amino acid).

Modified amino acids are sometimes observed in proteins; this is usually the result
of enzymatic modification after translation (protein synthesis). For example,
phosphorylation of serine by kinases and dephosphorylation by phosphatases is an
important control mechanism in the cell cycle. Only two amino acids other than the
standard twenty are known to be incorporated into proteins during translation, in
certain organisms:

 Selenocysteine is incorporated into some proteins at a UGA codon, which is

normally a stop codon.
 Pyrrolysine is incorporated into some proteins at a UAG codon. For instance, in
some methanogens in enzymes that are used to produce methane.

Besides those used in protein synthesis, other biologically important amino acids
include carnitine (used in lipid transport within a
cell), ornithine, GABA and taurine.

Protein structure
The particular series of amino acids that form a protein is known as that
protein's primary structure. This sequence is determined by the genetic makeup of
the individual. It specifies the order of side-chain groups along the linear
polypeptide "backbone".
Proteins have two types of well-classified, frequently occurring elements of local
structure defined by a particular pattern of hydrogen bonds along the
backbone: alpha helix and beta sheet. Their number and arrangement is called
the secondary structure of the protein. Alpha helices are regular spirals stabilized
by hydrogen bonds between the backbone CO group (carbonyl) of one amino acid
residue and the backbone NH group (amide) of the i+4 residue. The spiral has
about 3.6 amino acids per turn, and the amino acid side chains stick out from the
cylinder of the helix. Beta pleated sheets are formed by backbone hydrogen bonds
between individual beta strands each of which is in an "extended", or fully
stretched-out, conformation. The strands may lie parallel or antiparallel to each
other, and the side-chain direction alternates above and below the sheet.
Hemoglobin contains only helices, natural silk is formed of beta pleated sheets,
and many enzymes have a pattern of alternating helices and beta-strands. The
secondary-structure elements are connected by "loop" or "coil" regions of non-
repetitive conformation, which are sometimes quite mobile or disordered but
usually adopt a well-defined, stable arrangement.

The overall, compact, 3D structure of a protein is termed its tertiary structure or its
"fold". It is formed as result of various attractive forces like hydrogen
bonding, disulfide bridges, hydrophobic interactions, hydrophilic interactions, van
der Waals force etc.

When two or more polypeptide chains (either of identical or of different sequence)

cluster to form a protein, quaternary structure of protein is formed. Quaternary
structure is an attribute of polymeric (same-sequence chains)
or heteromeric (different-sequence chains) proteins like hemoglobin, which
consists of two "alpha" and two "beta" polypeptide chains.

Pyranose and Furanose Forms

Carbohydrates are an important class of biological molecules. Although their best-
known role is in energy storage in the form of glucose and starch, carbohydrates
play a number of other roles. For example, they lend structural support in the
backbone of DNA. They aid in homebody security and defense operations by
forming molecular codes on the surfaces of cells that identify whether the cell is
one of our own or an intruder. They carry specialized chemical reagents into
enzymes where reactions essential to life are carried out. Some of them are sweet.

The term "sugar" is often applied to any simple carbohydrate. One strict definition
of a carbohydrate is a polyhydroxylated aldehyde or ketone. In general, a sugar is a
molecule that contains an aldehyde or a ketone, and every carbon other than the
carbonyl carbon has a hydroxyl group attached to it.

This sort of structure presents lots of possibilities for reactions. In just one
molecule, we have both an electrophile (the carbonyl) and a number of
nucleophiles (the hydroxyls). Can sugars react with each other? Yes. Can a sugar
react with itself? Of course.

In fact, if you have seen drawings of sugars before, you might not have noticed the
carbonyl. That's because the carbonyl is usually "masked" as a hemiacetal. The
hemiacetal forms when a hydroxyl group along the carbon chain reaches back and
bonds to the electrophilic carbonyl carbon. As a result, five- and six-membered
rings are very common in sugars. Five-membered rings are called "furanoses" and
six-membered rings are called "pyranoses".

The most common way of drawing these rings are in "Haworth projections."
Haworth projections don't reflect the real shape of the ring. For example, in a six-
membered ring, the atoms in the ring adopt a zig-zag, up-and-down pattern in order
to optimize bond angles. The chair drawing shows that relationship, but in a
Haworth projection, the ring is drawn as though it were flat. Also, substituents on
the atoms in the ring can be found above the ring, below the ring, or sticking out
around the edge of the ring. The chair drawing or "diamond lattice projection"
shows these relationships pretty well. A Haworth projection doesn't try to do that.
Instead, it tries to depict stereochemical relationships: whether two substituents are
on the same face of the ring or opposite faces of the ring. In a diamond lattice
projection, we have to keep track of whether a given substituent is in the upper or
lower position at its particular site on the ring, and that requires careful attention.
In a Haworth projection, substituents are simply drawn straight up or straight
down. Because there are many chiral canters in sugars, and becuase two sugars can
differ by just one chiral center, Haworth projections make it easier to tell different
sugars apart.

When an open-chain sugar cyclizes by forming a hemiacetal, it forms a new

stereocenter. Because the carbonyl carbon is trigonal planar, the hydroxyl group
can approach it from either face. There is nothing to distinguish one face from the
other, and so approach from either face is equally likely. That means that two
different stereochemical configurations can form at the hemiacetal carbon: R and
S.

In sugar chemistry, these two isomers are named a different way: alpha and beta.
To distinguish these two designations, you need to look at the Haworth projection.
In a Haworth projection, the lower edge of the ring is read as being nearer to you.
The upper edge is read as being farther away. Remember, that's how we usually
read a chair structure, too. However, in a Haworth projection, we have to orient
the ring in a specific way. The hemiacetal carbon is always placed at the right edge
of the drawing. In addition, we always keep the oxygen atom on the back edge of
the ring (i.e. the upper edge of the drawing). That means the ring oxygen in a
Haworth projection is always found in the upper or upper right part of the drawing,
with the hemiacetal carbon directly beside it to the right.

If we have the Haworth projection, we can designate whether we have the alpha or
beta from by seeing whether the hydroxy part of the hemiacetal points up or down.
If it is down like the ants, we have an alpha isomer. If it is up like the butterflies,
we have a beta isomer.

Because the hemiacetal carbon can adopt either of two configurations in a ring, it is
given a special name. It is called the anomeric position.
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