glutamine - 2024 ARCADIA - Buzzpoints App

Question

Notch’s opa domains include large tracts of this amino acid, whose instability can cause bristling if they are overextended. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this amino acid, which comprises extensive tracts that aggregate and cause neurodegeneration in diseases such as Huntington’s. Most ammonia is transported to the liver in the form of this amino acid.

ANSWER: glutamine [or Q or Gln; accept polyglutamine or polyQ]

[10h] This organism is used to study polyglutamine diseases because its SRCP1 protein solubilizes polyglutamine tracts. When starved, this slime mold secretes cyclic AMP (“A-M-P”) to aggregate its cells into a pseudoplasmodium.

ANSWER: Dictyostelium [or Dictyostelium discoideum or D. discoideum; accept Dicty]

[10e] Expanding the Huntingtin polyglutamine tract can abnormally orient cristae and reduce levels of Complex IV in the inner membrane of these ATP-generating organelles.

ANSWER: mitochondria [or mitochondrion]

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	5	12.00	100%	0%	20%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

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Amherst	Boston University	0	0	10	10
Boston College A	Bowdoin C	0	0	10	10
Missouri	WashU	10	0	10	20
UF A	USF	0	0	10	10
Berkeley A	Berkeley Past	0	0	10	10
Waterloo Aspidistra	Carleton A	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Illinois Blue	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Bristol	0	0	10	10
U[C]SD	Jason et al.	0	0	10	10
Madmen and Specialists	In the Mood for Buzz	10	0	10	20
Old and Young	Social credit go vroom	0	0	10	10
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	Paddington in Peru (2024)	0	0	10	10
Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	0	0	10	10
bingy academy	The cult of SGA	0	0	10	10
Pitt	Maryland	0	0	10	10
Berkeley B	Stanford	0	0	10	10
Toronto Metropolitan A	Toronto A	0	0	10	10
McGill A	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	0	0	10	10
Waterloo Basic	Waterloo Cloze	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	Clark House	0	0	10	10
Harvard	Clark Wilson	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Bowdoin A	0	0	10	10
Brandeis A	Yale	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Lambert	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	SIUE	0	0	10	10
LSE B	Warwick C	0	0	10	10
Anderson et al.	SGV Ventures	10	0	10	20
Claremont	ALCU	0	0	10	10