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Control of Prokaryotic Growth Flashcards

1
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Most bacterial cells divide via

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binary fission

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2
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Describe binary fission

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  • cell elongation
  • central septum formation
  • cell wall formation occurs intercalatorially
  • cells separate
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Describe the products of binary fission

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one bacterial cell has equal products under binary fission: 2 genetically identical daughter clones

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4
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Describe budding

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  • simple budding
  • budding from hyphae
  • unequal products in division
  • cell wall formation is not intercalatory, but polar
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Give examples of cells exhibiting simple budding

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  • Pirellula
  • Blastobacter
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Give examples of cells exhibiting budding from hyphae

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  • Hyphomicrobium
  • Rhodomicrobium
  • Pedomicrobedium
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Describe Caulobacter formation

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  • relies on unequal products post-division
  • stalks produce differentiated swimmer cells while the stalk itself holds fast
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What is Caulobacter

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a stalked organism

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Give an example of unequal products formation

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  • when a cell undergoes polar growth without differentiation of cell size (without elongating first)
  • occurs in the Rhodopseudomonas, the Nitrobacter and the Methylosinus
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What is the adaptation of efficient cell division in bacteria?

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exponential growth

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11
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One bacterial cell can divide into … after 10 hours

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1,048,576

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12
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How is bacterial growth rate calculated?

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  • measure logarithmic cell abundance per ml against time
  • plotting this graphically to allow slope calculation (the rate of division)
  • can also calculate g
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What is g, in terms of bacterial cell division?

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the mean generation time (time taken for cell abundance to double)

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14
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Why does bacterial culture growth occur in stages?

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Because exponential growth is not sustainable in vitro

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15
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Describe the experimental set up for investigating bacterial culture growth

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  • culture inside of a culture vessel with room for a gaseous headspace
  • overflow collected
  • effluent microbial cells analysed
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16
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Describe the classification of stages of bacterial cell culture growth

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  • lag
  • exponential
  • stationary
  • death phases
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17
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Describe the lag phase

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  • post-incodulation
  • due to the change of growth conditions in minerals and nutrients
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18
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Describe the exponential phase

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  • relatively short
  • where g is calculated
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19
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Describe exponential growth

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  • requires very rich media
  • not always feasible
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20
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Describe the death phase

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  • often protracted
  • can be replaced by a quiescent phase if resistance is horizontally acquired
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21
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How is bacterial abundance calculated?

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  • the viable organism count
  • turbidity (via optical density)
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22
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Explain the inability of expontential growth to persist

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  • nutrients are limiting
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23
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Describe bacterial culture growth on sugar

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  • usually produce an acid
  • toxifies the product, limiting growth by mutation induction
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24
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Describe bacterial culture growth on organic acid

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tends to alkalise the media, resulting in slowed or arrested growth

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25
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How to set up experimentally to maximise the likelihood of prolonged exponential growth

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  • allow for fresh medium from a resevoir via a flow-rate regulatory mechanism
  • sterile air or other necessary metabolic gases
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26
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When measuring g

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dilution rate is directly proportional to growth rate

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27
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Describe the minimum for bacterial temperature

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  • undergo membrane gelling
  • transport processes are so slow as to not facilitate growth
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28
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Describe bacteria at their optimum temperature

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metabolism is at the maximum possible rate

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29
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Describe the maximum for bacterial temperature

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  • protein denaturation occurs
  • cytoplasmic membrane collapse
  • thermal lysis
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30
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Psychrophile Polaromonas vascuolata

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optimum is 4 degrees Celsius

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31
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Mesophile Escherichia Coli

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optimum is 39 degrees Celsius

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32
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Thermophile Geobacillus stearothermophilus

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optimum is 60 degrees Celsius

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33
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Hyperthermophilic archaea Pyrolobus fumerii

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optimum is 106 degrees Celsius

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34
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Describe Alkaliphiles

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  • prefer alkaline pHs (of greater than or equal to 8
  • Chloroflexus aurantiacus
  • Bacillus firmus
  • archaea: Natronobacterium gregoryi
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35
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Describe Acidophiles

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  • prefer acidic pHs (lesser than 5.5)
  • Rhodopila globiformis
  • Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
  • archaea: Picrophilus oshimae
36
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Describe Neutrophiles

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  • prefer central pHs (greater than 5.5, but lesser than 8)
  • E. Coli
37
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Describe the acidic environments in which bacteria might dwell

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  • volcanic soils and waters
  • gastric fluids
  • citric fruits
  • mine drainage efflux
38
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Alkaline examples are found in

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  • seawater
  • some lakes
  • limey environments
39
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Why are buffers necessary?

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to ensure the efficient and adequate growth of media cultures

40
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What is osmolarity?

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an organism’s sensitivity to sodium chloride

41
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Describe Nonhalophiles

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  • those who do not tolerate any salt
  • E. Coli
42
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Describe Halotolerance

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  • grow at lesser than 5 percentage NaCl - Staphylococcus aureus.
43
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Describe Halophiles

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  • grow between 5 and 10 percent NaCl
  • Aliivibrio fischeri
44
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Describe Extreme halophiles

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  • grow at greater than 15% NaCl
  • Halobacterium salinarum.
45
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Describe the different categories of aerobicity

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  • obligate
  • facultative
  • microaerophilic
46
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Describe obligate aerobes

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  • oxygen is required to complete aerobic respiration
  • Micrococcus luteus
47
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List some frequent habitats for obligate anaerobes

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  • skin
  • dust particles
48
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Describe facultative aerobes

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  • do not require oxygen
  • more efficient growth in its presence
  • undergo aerobic respiration, as well as anaerobic respiration and fermentation
  • E. Coli
49
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Give a frequent habitat for facultative anaerobes

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mammalian large intestine

50
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Describe microaerophilic aerobes

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  • require oxygen at lower levels that atmospheric oxygen, so that they can complete aerobic respiration
  • Spirillum volutans
51
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Give a frequent habitat for microaerophilic aerobes

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lake water

52
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Describe the classification of anaerobes

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  • aerotolerant
  • obligate
53
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Describe aerotolerant anaerobes

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  • do not require a totally anoxic environment
  • do not require oxygen to complete fermentation pathways
  • Streptococcus pyrogenes
54
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A frequent habitat for aerotolerant anaerobes is

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the upper respiratory tract

55
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Describe obligate anaerobes

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  • metabolise via anaerobic respiration or fermentation
  • find oxygenic presence either harmful or lethal
  • Methanobacterium formicicum
56
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Frequent habitats for obligate anaerobes are

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  • sewage sludge
  • anoxic lake sediments
57
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How are compatible solutes acquired?

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intake or synthesis

58
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Describe nonphototrophic bacteria

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  • associated with glutamate and proline, sucrose and tehalose
  • Escherichia
59
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Describe freshwater cyanobacteria

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  • associated with glutamate and proline, sucrose and tehalose.
  • Anabaena
60
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Describe the Halotolerants with respect to their compatible solutes

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sucrose and tehalose

61
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Marine cyanobacteria

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  • Synechococcus
  • associated with alpha-Glucosylglycerol
62
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Marine algae

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  • Phaeocystis
  • associated with Mannitol, various glycosides and dimethylsulphoniopropionate
63
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Describe Halophilic photorophic purple bacteria

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  • Halorhodospira
  • associated with Glycine betaine, ectoine and trehalose
64
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Describe the Alphanothece

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  • salt lake cyanobacteria
  • associated with Glycine betaine
65
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Describe extremely halophilic archaea

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  • Halobacterium
  • associated with potassium chloride
66
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Describe Salinibacter

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associated with potassium chloride

67
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Describe Haloalkaliphilic archaea

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  • Natrinema
  • associated with potassium chloride
68
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Describe Halophilic green algae

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  • Dunaliella
  • associated with glycerol
69
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Describe the the Xerophilic and omsophilic yeasts

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  • Zygosachharomyces
  • associated with glycerol
70
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Describe the Xerophilic filamentous fungi

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  • Xeromyces
  • associated with glycerol.
71
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How do bacteria control growth?

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recognising cell density

72
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How do Gram negative bacteria recognise cell density?

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  • quorum sensing
  • activator protein activated by an AHL
  • interacts with the chromosomes to produce quorum-specific proteins
  • interacts with AHL synthase, producing further AHL
  • creates a self-amplifying feedforward loop
73
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Describe AHLs

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the group of intracellular esters acyl homoserine lactones

74
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Describe a quorum

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a level of high enough cell density

75
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Describe quorum sensing

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  • synthesising AHLs of varying alkyl side chain length
  • activate gene expression once a quorum is reache
  • can be important for pathogenicity
76
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Describe cell density recognition in the bioluminescent bacteira Aliivibrio fischeri

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  • AHLs control expression of the luxCDABE operon
  • AHL-binding to the lux regulator LuxR activates transcription of the lux inducer LuxI
  • once a quorum is reached, bioluminescence is switched on.
77
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What is LuxI?

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AHL synthase

78
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How do Gram positive bacteria control growth?

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using peptides

79
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Describe the stringent response

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  • arises from cessation or downshift of prokaryotic growth
  • (p)ppGpp synthesis reduces tRNA and rRNA synthesis
  • activation of amino acid biosynthetic operons (if this is the factor behind growth halt)
  • cell division arrest
  • increases cellular stress responses
80
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What generally causes cessation or downshift in prokaryotic growth

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transfer from rich to a poor medium, oxygen mutation or carbon limitation

81
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(p)ppGpp

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guanine penta- or tetraphosphate

82
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Describe the heat shock response

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  • several HSPs tasked with refolding denatured proteins
  • HSP70 preoccupied with refolding denatured proteins
  • leaving RpoH sigma factor to accumulate and complete its function of heat shock gene transcription
83
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HSPs

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  • Heat Shock Proteins
  • e.g. HSP60, HSP10
84
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HSP60

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also known as GroEL

85
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HSP10

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also termed GroES

86
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HSP70

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  • also known as DnaK
  • degrades RpoH sigma factor
87
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Describe the amino acid starvation pathway

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under amino acid starvation, injured tRNAs bind to the ribosome and stall their tRNA and RRNA synthesis

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