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Bacterial Structure, Function, and Growth Flashcards

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Bacterial Cell Wall Types

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Gram Negative and Gram Postive

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Outer Membrane

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Bilayer membrane

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Nucleoid

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Where the bacterial DNA resides, specialized area that isn’t surroudned by a membrane

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Gram Negative Bacteria

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Smaller peptidoglycan wall, space between outer and inner membrane, fewer crosslinking between peptidoglycan strands, has LPS (lipopolysaccharide)

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5
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Flagellum

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Structure used for motility

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Gram Positive

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Extensive peptidoglycan network, lysine crosslinking (oligosaccharide bridges), larger cell wall, has teichoic acid (lipoteichoic acid is lipid modified teichoic acid)

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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)

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LPS, three portions, lipid A (endotoxin, fatty acids and hydrophobic), core polysaccharide (highly conserved in gram - bacteria), O antigen/somatic antigen (repeating unit, 4-20 repeats)

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Teichoic Acids

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Part of gram + bacterialRibitol teichoic acids- ribitol is the repeating unit

Glycerol teichoic acids- glyerol is the repeating subunit

The repeating chain is linked by phosphate

Can be modified on their side chains and can be antigenic

Recognized as molecular patterns for TLRs

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Capsules

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Made by polysaccharides, gelatenous, resistant to phagocytosis

Rarely, can be repeating amino acids, or d-glutinanic acids (anthrax bacterium)

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Flagellae

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Organs of motility,

single/multiple

Unipolar/bipolar

Can tumble

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Pili/Fimbriae

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Small portrusions on the surface of bacteria, can interact to form biofilms

Can also have sexual pili, initiated by a receptor protein which helps form a conjugation bridge

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Cell Membrane

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generates electormotive force for ATP, has a plasma membrane ATP-ase, selective permeability, involved cell division, lipid biosynthesis

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13
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Bacterial DNA

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ciruclar, single stranded, not surrounded by a membrane

Polysome- multiple bound ribosomes

Translation and transcription coupled

Polycistronic- DNA can code multiple genes

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Plasmid

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Small circular units of DNA that can confer survival benefits to bacteria (drug resistance, fitness advantages)

Can be transferred with conjugation

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15
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Phage Conversion

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When a given bacteria is infected with a bacteriophage and get incorporated DNA that confers a new phenotype

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16
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Bacterial Growth Curve

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Lag Phase- The bacterium are still trying to establish growth, adapting to their environment

Growth phase- linear on a log graph, exponentlal growth

Stationary phase- resources are starting to become limited, and toxic metabolites accumulate, growth starts to slow

Death phase- number of viable bacteria decrease over time

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Aerobic Baceria

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need oxygen

They make catalases that can break down toxic oxygen free radicals

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Anaerobe

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Grow by fermentative metabolism, (if obligate, oxygen can kill)

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Indifference

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Ferments regardless of presence of oxygen

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20
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Facultative

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Can do either, aerobic or anaerobic

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21
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Microaerophilic

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Grow best at low oxygen, can grow without oxygen

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22
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Energy currency

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ATP- made by membrane ATPase

Proton Motive Force

Bacterial also have reducing power with NADH and NADPH

23
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Fermentation

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Catabolic process in which a bacteria uses organic compound as both electon donor and receptor

24
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Respiration

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Oxygen is terminal electron receptor, but sometimes other molecuels can be the final receptor (nitrate, some amino acids like arginine, but that’s anaerobic respiration)

25
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Sporulation

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The formation of spores is the bacterial response to adverse conditionsCell divsion occurs but is assymetric, leaving a mother cell and a sporeDense outer coat, very dehydrated and metabolically inactive, vegtative stateReenters growth cycle via “germination”

26
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Explain why unique bacterial components are important as potential targets for antimicrobial therapy.

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There are several structures that are unique to prokaryotes and not eukaryotes, so targeted drug therapies agaisnt this structures will hopefully not have a lot of side effects

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29
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Coccobacillus

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Fusiform Bacillus

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33
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Spirochete

34
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Heterotrophic

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The Bacteria require an enternal organic carbon source

35
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Autotrophic

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Bacteria that can generate carbon from CO2

36
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Cell Wall Inhibition

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B-lactams

Vancomycin

Cycloserine

37
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Outer and cytoplasmic membrane active antimicrobials

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Polymyxins

38
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Inhibitors of protein synthesis at the ribosomal leve

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Tetracyclines

Aminoglyosides

Macrolides

Chloramphenicols

39
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Inhibitors of nucleic acid synthesis

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Quinolones

Rifampicin

40
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Metabolic inhibitory antimicrobials

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Sulfonamides

Trimethoprim

Isoniazid

Metronidazole

41
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β-lactams

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penicillins, cepalosporins, etc) inhibit the final transpeptidation reaction in cross-linking of peptidoglycan.

42
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Vancomycin

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Inhibits elongation of the peptidoglycan chain

43
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Cycloserine

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Prevents formation of muramyl pentapeptide, an earlyt intermediate in peptidoglycan synthesis

44
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Polymyxins

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Cationic

Disrupts bacterial outer membrane and cytoplasmic membrane

45
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Aminoglycosdies

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Binds to 30S r subunit, inhibiting it

46
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Tetracyclins

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Reversibly binds to 30S subunite, and inhibits tRNA binding

47
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Chloramphenicol

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Reversibly binds 50S, inhibiting peptidyl transferase and bond formation

48
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Macrolides (like erythromycin) and lincomycins

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bind to 23S rRNA of 50S and inhibits peptidyle transferase

49
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Quinolones

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Inhibit DNA gyrase and topoisomerase

50
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Rifampicin

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Inhibits RNA polymerase

51
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Sulfonamides

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Inhibit formation of folic acid via competitive inhibition

52
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Trimethoprim

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Inhibits dihydrofoalte reductase in folate metabolism

53
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Isoniazid

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Inhibits lipid synthesis

54
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Metronidazole

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Intereferes with anaerobic metabolism

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