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  • 1. Which technique is used to disrupt the cell membrane and release internal contents?
A) Electrophoresis
B) Salting out
C) Ultracentrifugation
D) Cell lysis
  • 2. What is the name of the solution containing the released internal contents of a cell?
A) Buffer
B) Supernatant
C) Matrix
D) Crude lysate
  • 3. Which method is commonly used to concentrate proteins from a lysate?
A) GFP fusion
B) His-tagging
C) Site-directed mutagenesis
D) Salting out
  • 4. What property of a protein can be used to isolate it during chromatography?
A) Density
B) Fluorescence
C) Luminescence
D) Binding affinity
  • 5. Which of these is NOT mentioned as a way to monitor protein purification?
A) Enzyme assays
B) Spectroscopy
C) Gel electrophoresis
D) Mass spectrometry
  • 6. What does a His-tag primarily consist of?
A) Modified tRNAs
B) Green fluorescent protein
C) Histidine residues
D) Nickel ions
  • 7. In His-tag purification, what is the chromatography column filled with?
A) Gold
B) Sucrose
C) Nickel
D) Antibodies
  • 8. Where are many membrane-bound proteins synthesized?
A) Mitochondria
B) Cytoplasm
C) Nucleus
D) Endoplasmic reticulum
  • 9. What is a fusion protein or chimera often linked to for localization studies?
A) Nickel
B) Green fluorescent protein
C) Gold
D) Histidine residues
  • 10. Which technique is considered the gold-standard for cellular localization?
A) Immunoelectron microscopy
B) Immunohistochemistry
C) Isopycnic centrifugation
D) Fluorescent microscopy
  • 11. What material is typically used to make antibodies electro-dense in immunoelectron microscopy?
A) Copper
B) Gold
C) Nickel
D) Sucrose
  • 12. What technique allows researchers to alter a protein sequence to study localization?
A) Electrophoresis
B) Ultracentrifugation
C) Cofractionation
D) Site-directed mutagenesis
  • 13. What can be incorporated into proteins using modified tRNAs during site-directed mutagenesis?
A) Green fluorescent protein
B) Nickel ions
C) Unnatural amino acids
D) Gold particles
  • 14. Which method separates components based on their density using gradients?
A) Electrophoresis
B) Immunohistochemistry
C) Isopycnic centrifugation
D) Salting out
  • 15. What do immunohistochemistry signals represent when localizing proteins?
A) Luminescent or chromogenic signals
B) Enzymatic inhibition
C) Atomic mass
D) Density measurements
  • 16. What is the term for the shape into which a protein naturally folds?
A) Native conformation
B) Quinary structure
C) Denatured state
D) Primary sequence
  • 17. What molecules sometimes assist proteins in folding into their native states?
A) Dehydrons
B) Molecular chaperones
C) Enzymes
D) Substrates
  • 18. A protein is chemically categorized as which of the following?
A) A polysaccharide
B) A nucleic acid
C) A polyamide
D) A lipid
  • 19. What force stabilizes secondary structures?
A) Hydrogen bonds
B) Covalent bonds
C) Ionic interactions
D) Hydrophobic repulsion
  • 20. Which of the following is a common example of secondary structure?
A) Protein subunit
B) Hydrophobic core
C) Alpha-helix
D) Disulfide bridge
  • 21. What is the overall shape of a single protein molecule called?
A) Quinary structure
B) Secondary structure
C) Tertiary structure
D) Primary structure
  • 22. What is another term often used synonymously with 'tertiary structure'?
A) Conformation
B) Subunit
C) Sequence
D) Fold
  • 23. What structure is formed by several protein molecules acting as a complex?
A) Quaternary structure
B) Tertiary structure
C) Secondary structure
D) Quinary structure
  • 24. What is the name for the protein molecules that form a quaternary structure?
A) Dehydrons
B) Chaperones
C) Catalysts
D) Subunits
  • 25. What does quinary structure organize?
A) The internal hydrophobic core
B) The amino acid sequence
C) The crowded cellular interior
D) The membrane channels
  • 26. Transitions between related protein structures during function are called what?
A) Dehydration
B) Conformational changes
C) Subunit folding
D) Catalytic sequences
  • 27. What is the region of an enzyme that participates in chemical catalysis?
A) Molecular chaperone
B) Quinary surface
C) Hydrophobic core
D) Active site
  • 28. Which class of proteins is typically soluble and often functions as enzymes?
A) Globular proteins
B) Fibrous proteins
C) Membrane proteins
D) Structural proteins
  • 29. What is a primary example of a fibrous protein?
A) Collagen
B) Lipase
C) Receptor
D) Hemoglobin
  • 30. What is the main function of membrane proteins?
A) Cellular interior organization
B) Hair and nail structure
C) Catalytic enzymes
D) Receptors and channels
  • 31. What are dehydrons?
A) A class of fibrous proteins
B) Types of quaternary subunits
C) Molecular chaperones that assist folding
D) Intramolecular hydrogen bonds poorly shielded from water
  • 32. Why do protein structures vary in solution?
A) Presence of molecular chaperones
B) Constant synthesis of new amino acids
C) Lack of primary structure
D) Thermal vibration and collisions
  • 33. What is a common force stabilizing the tertiary structure?
A) Peptide bonds
B) Thermal energy
C) Hydrophobic core
D) Polyamide bonding
  • 34. Which scientist recognized three distinct varieties of animal proteins in 1789?
A) Gerardus Johannes Mulder
B) Carl von Voit
C) Jöns Jacob Berzelius
D) Antoine Fourcroy
  • 35. In what year was gluten first separated from wheat in published research?
A) 1838
B) 1862
C) 1789
D) 1747
  • 36. Who named the term 'protein' in 1838?
A) Jöns Jacob Berzelius
B) Gerardus Johannes Mulder
C) Antoine Fourcroy
D) Karl Heinrich Ritthausen
  • 37. The Greek word 'proteios', which is the origin of the word protein, means what?
A) Structural
B) Biological
C) Essential
D) Primary
  • 38. Which amino acid did Mulder study when he found a molecular weight of 131 Da?
A) Glutamic acid
B) Threonine
C) Glycine
D) Leucine
  • 39. What belief did early nutritional scientists like Carl von Voit hold regarding protein?
A) Proteins are toxic
B) Proteins are unimportant for growth
C) Flesh makes flesh
D) Proteins only exist in plants
  • 40. Who isolated the amino acid glutamic acid around 1862?
A) Thomas Burr Osborne
B) William Cumming Rose
C) Karl Heinrich Ritthausen
D) Lafayette Mendel
  • 41. What is the final essential amino acid discovered?
A) Glutamic acid
B) Threonine
C) Leucine
D) Albumin
  • 42. Who identified the final essential amino acid?
A) Thomas Burr Osborne
B) Gerardus Johannes Mulder
C) Lafayette Mendel
D) William Cumming Rose
  • 43. Which company purified 1 kg of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A in the 1950s?
A) Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
B) German Nutritional Research Center
C) Swedish Chemistry Institute
D) Armour Hot Dog Company
  • 44. What term did researchers in the 1700s often use to collectively call proteins?
A) Peptides
B) Enzymes
C) Amino acids
D) Albumins
  • 45. What is a linear chain of amino acid residues called?
A) A polypeptide
B) A nucleotide
C) A polysaccharide
D) A proteasome
  • 46. How many amino acid residues are typically required for a polypeptide to be considered a protein?
A) Exactly 2
B) More than 20–30
C) Less than 10
D) Exactly 5
  • 47. How many standard amino acids does the genetic code generally specify?
A) 10
B) 50
C) 20
D) 100
  • 48. What is the process called that chemically modifies residues during or after synthesis?
A) Protein turnover
B) Genetic replication
C) Peptide folding
D) Post-translational modification
  • 49. What are non-protein compounds or ions required for biological activity called?
A) Polypeptides
B) Ligases
C) Substrates
D) Cofactors
  • 50. What is the average lifespan of proteins in mammalian cells?
A) 1–2 minutes
B) 1–2 days
C) 1–2 hours
D) 1–2 years
  • 51. Which cellular assembly is often responsible for degrading abnormal or misfolded proteins?
A) Mitochondria
B) Nucleus
C) Ribosome
D) Proteasome
  • 52. Which molecule can mark a protein for destruction?
A) Ubiquitin ligases
B) Pyrrolysine
C) Selenocysteine
D) Polysaccharide
  • 53. Who, along with Franz Hofmeister, is credited with understanding proteins as polypeptides in 1902?
A) Linus Pauling
B) Frederick Sanger
C) Hermann Emil Fischer
D) Christian Anfinsen
  • 54. Which enzyme did James B. Sumner use in 1926 to show that enzymes are proteins?
A) Ribonuclease A
B) RNA polymerase
C) Hemoglobin
D) Urease
  • 55. Walter Kauzmann's work on protein folding was heavily influenced by studies from whom?
A) Max Perutz
B) Frederick Sanger
C) Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang
D) Roger Kornberg
  • 56. What is the first protein that had its amino acid chain sequenced?
A) Insulin
B) Ribonuclease A
C) Hemoglobin
D) Myoglobin
  • 57. In what year did Frederick Sanger win the Nobel Prize for his work on insulin?
A) 1958
B) 1999
C) 1972
D) 1949
  • 58. Christian Anfinsen's Nobel Prize-winning work in 1972 focused on which protein?
A) Hemoglobin
B) Urease
C) Insulin
D) Ribonuclease A
  • 59. According to the thermodynamic hypothesis, the folded form of a protein represents what?
A) Maximum entropy
B) Free energy minimum
C) Highest potential energy
D) A random coil state
  • 60. Roger Kornberg sequenced the structure of which complex protein in 1999?
A) Urease
B) RNA polymerase
C) Ribonuclease A
D) Insulin
  • 61. Which classification system is typically used for the functional classification of enzymes?
A) Gene ontology
B) EC number system
C) X-ray crystallography
D) Protein Data Bank
  • 62. Gene ontology classifies proteins based on their biological function and what else?
A) Amino acid sequence length
B) Number of disulfide bonds
C) Molecular weight
D) Intracellular location
  • 63. Which amino acid has a cyclical side chain that limits flexibility?
A) Glycine
B) Alanine
C) Leucine
D) Proline
  • 64. What is an individual amino acid within a polypeptide chain called?
A) Ligand
B) Subunit
C) Monomer
D) Residue
  • 65. What gives the peptide bond its partial double-bond character?
A) Hydrogen bonding
B) Hydrophobic interactions
C) Resonance forms
D) Van der Waals forces
  • 66. What is the free amino group at the end of a polypeptide chain called?
A) Beta terminus
B) N-terminus
C) Alpha terminus
D) C-terminus
  • 67. How are peptide sequences conventionally written?
A) Smallest residue to largest residue
B) C-terminus to N-terminus
C) Alphabetical order
D) N-terminus to C-terminus
  • 68. What is the free carboxyl group at the end of a polypeptide chain called?
A) Base terminus
B) Alpha terminus
C) N-terminus
D) C-terminus
  • 69. What determines the local shape of the protein backbone?
A) Ribosome synthesis speed
B) Peptide resonance
C) The number of peptide bonds
D) Dihedral angles
  • 70. Which enzyme is considered the most abundant protein in nature?
A) RNA polymerase
B) Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase
C) RuBisCO
D) Titin
  • 71. What is the primary function of RuBisCO?
A) Incorporating carbon dioxide into organic matter
B) DNA replication
C) Synthesizing amino acids
D) Ribosome assembly
  • 72. How many proteins are detected in human lymphoblastoid cells out of the 20,000 encoded by the genome?
A) 6,000
B) 2 million
C) 50 million
D) 20,000
  • 73. What are the three-nucleotide sets in the genetic code called?
A) Anticodons
B) Codons
C) Nucleosides
D) Amino acids
  • 74. What amino acid does the codon AUG code for?
A) Alanine
B) Valine
C) Titin
D) Methionine
  • 75. What is the total number of possible codons?
A) 100
B) 20
C) 64
D) 4
  • 76. Where does protein synthesis occur in eukaryotic cells?
A) In the nucleoid
B) In the cell nucleus
C) On the nuclear membrane
D) In the cytoplasm
  • 77. What is the process of synthesizing a protein from an mRNA template called?
A) Replication
B) Transcription
C) Post-transcriptional modification
D) Translation
  • 78. Which enzyme charges tRNA molecules with amino acids?
A) Ribosome
B) Titin
C) RNA polymerase
D) Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase
  • 79. What is the unit used to measure the molecular mass of a protein?
A) Nucleotide
B) Gram
C) Liter
D) Dalton
  • 80. What are the largest known proteins?
A) Mycoplasma proteins
B) Ribosomes
C) RNA polymerases
D) Titins
  • 81. What is the approximate mass of the largest known proteins?
A) 53 kDa
B) 31 kDa
C) 49 kDa
D) 3000 kDa
  • 82. Where are titins found?
A) In the bacterial cell wall
B) In the nucleus
C) In the cytoplasm
D) In the muscle sarcomere
  • 83. What is a specific technique mentioned for producing peptides in high yield?
A) Protein folding
B) Chemical ligation
C) Gel electrophoresis
D) Mass spectrometry
  • 84. Besides chemical synthesis, what other method can attach fluorescent probes to amino acids?
A) Oxidative phosphorylation
B) Genetic engineering
C) Thermal denaturation
D) Chromatographic separation
  • 85. Why is chemical synthesis generally avoided for commercial applications?
A) It produces toxic byproducts
B) It requires radioactive materials
C) It is not suitable for such purposes
D) It is too fast for assembly lines
  • 86. How does chemical synthesis compare to biological protein synthesis regarding direction?
A) It is opposite
B) It is the same
C) It occurs simultaneously
D) It is unrelated
  • 87. What is an example of a specific function of a protein domain?
A) Kinase activity
B) Cell wall reinforcement
C) DNA replication
D) Lipid storage
  • 88. What do SH3 domains typically bind to?
A) PxxP motifs
B) Lipid membranes
C) DNA sequences
D) Ribosomal RNA
  • 89. Where are many protein motifs collected?
A) The Protein Data Bank
B) Eukaryotic Linear Motif (ELM) database
C) The Human Genome Project
D) The Ribosome database
  • 90. What percentage of the dry weight of an Escherichia coli cell consists of protein?
A) 75%
B) 3%
C) 50%
D) 20%
  • 91. What is the term for the set of proteins expressed in a particular cell or cell type?
A) Proteome
B) Genome
C) Metabolome
D) Transcriptome
  • 92. Are interactions between proteins generally reversible?
A) Only during protein synthesis
B) Only in plant cells
C) No, they are permanent
D) Yes
  • 93. What term describes the molecules bound and acted upon by enzymes?
A) Receptors
B) Substrates
C) Antigens
D) Ligands
  • 94. What is the canonical example of a ligand-binding transport protein?
A) Insulin
B) Haemoglobin
C) A dirigent protein
D) A plasma cell
  • 95. What do lectins specifically bind to?
A) Sugar moieties
B) Oxygen
C) Potassium ions
D) DNA
  • 96. Which specialized B cells produce antibodies?
A) Lung cells
B) Stem cells
C) Plasma cells
D) Liver cells
  • 97. What is the primary role of motor proteins?
A) Generating mechanical forces
B) Synthesizing DNA
C) Providing rigid structural support
D) Regulating gene expression
  • 98. Which of the following is an example of a motor protein?
A) Elastin
B) Collagen
C) Dynein
D) Keratin
  • 99. What cellular structure do actin and tubulin help maintain?
A) The cell membrane
B) The nuclear envelope
C) The endoplasmic reticulum
D) The cytoskeleton
  • 100. Which method is commonly used to study protein structure and function?
A) X-ray crystallography
B) DNA sequencing
C) Polymerase chain reaction
D) Gel electrophoresis
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