Exam Block 3 Flashcards
Essential dietary requirements
Amino acids, fats, vitamins, minerals
Excess fuel stored as
Carbohydrate (glycogen) and fat (triglycerides)
Process of anabolism
Animals don’t store protein for use in fasted state
Waste
Compounds generated by metabolism, foreign compounds taken in as food and drink that aren’t useful as fuel
Body has a echo sim to dispose of them
ATP
Chemical unit of energy used by cells for fuel
Dietary and stored fuel is oxidized to produce energy in the form of heat and ATP
2 mechanism to produce ATP
Substrate level phosphorylation
Oxidative phosphorylation
3 fuels oxidized to produce ATP
Carbohydrates fats and proteins
Process of catabolism
Branched metabolic pathways common
Different fuels from many sources enter similar metabolic pathways
Fates of metabolites are determined by an organisms energy status
Common substrate produced
Acetyl coA
Can be metabolized (completely when oxidized to CO2 and H2O
can be stored as fatty acids and triglycerides
Common substrates may produce different storage fuels such as
Glucose converted to glycogen and fat
Other metabolites can only become fat
Major dietary carbs
Starch (polysaccharide)
Simple sugars : glucose and fructose
Disaccharides lactose and sucrose
Dietary proteins
Polymeric chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds
Digestion breaks them into amino acids and dipeptides for absorption
Dietary lipids (fat)
Triglyceride fats oils
Dietary alcohol
Ethanol
Energy content of food
1 kcal = 4.128 kj
Carbs and proteins 4 kcal/g
Fat 9 kcal/g
Alcohol 7kcal/g
Body stores fuel how
Fat - triglycerides stored in droplets in adipose tissue(85% of stored fuel, very efficient)
Carbohydrate - glycogen stored in cytosolic granules in liver and muscle cells (limited)
Protein - function as structural component of enzymes, can be used as fuel but may result in loss of function
ATP transfers phosphate to what in muscle
Creatine
Creatine phosphate generated by Creatine kinase from atp and Creatine to store atp equivalent
Daily energy expenditure
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) + physical activity + set induced thermogenesis + wound repair and growth
Measurements of body composition
Body fat %
BMI 704x(weight/height^2)
Effective weight loss
Calorie intake less than calorie expenditure
Change eating habits increase fiber and grains decrease fat
Increase exercise specifically low impact aerobic
Essential fatty acids
Linolenic acid - seeds, green leafy vegetables
Linoleic acid - vegetable oils
Eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) - cold water fatty fish, milk, yogurt
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) - cold water fatty fish, full fat milk, yogurt
Essential amino acids
PVT TIM HALL
phenylalanine, valine, threonine tryptophan, isoleucine, methionine, histidine, arginine lysine, leucine
Nitrogen balance - amino acids required for protein synthesis, excess proteins ingested not stored they’re removed as waste and carbon skeleton stored as fat or glycogen
Nitrogen balance
Positive - growing child, pregnant woman, body builders
Balanced - adult
Negative - illness, injury, stress
Kwashiorkor : protein deficit but not calorie deficit
Marasmus : protein and calorie deficit
Anorexia nervosa : eating disorder
Long term starvation leads to what illness
Kwashimiorkor and marasmus
Anabolic pathways
Synthesize molecules for fuel (glycogen, triglyceride, glucose)
Synthesize molecules for function (dna/rna, proteins, amino acids acids, membranes and extra cellular matrix)
Catabolic pathways
Breakdown of fuel molecules (digestion, glycolysis, amino acid metabolism)
Breakdown of functional molecules (nitrogen disposal, detoxification, endocytosis, apoptosis)
Physiological status controls metabolism how
Fed - body can use excess dietary intake to add to metabolic food stores
Fasted - body utilizes stored fuels during time of need, during starvation other fuels are produced or spare glucose is used
Glucose homeostatic levels
80-100 mg/dl
Hormone signals
Insulin = fed
Glucagon = fasting
Cortisol = fasting, trauma, infection, chronic stress
Epinephrine= fight or flight
Biomolecules regulating metabolism
Pancreatic hormones = insulin and glucagon
Glucocorticoids = cortisol
Catecholamines = epinephrine and norepinephrine
ATP aerobic vs anaerobic
Oxidative phosphorylation requires oxygen
Substrate level phosphorylation doesn’t require oxygen
Carb digestion
Hydrolyzed to 2 monoacylglycerols and free fatty acids in small intestine
Absorbed and resynthesized into standard triacylglycerols for secretion
Liver in fed state
Glucagon freely enters and leaves, excess glucose stored as glycogen and converted to fat, amino acids absorbed from proteins or converted to glucose and fat
Brain
Always use glucose and metabolize it completely to CO2 and water
Red blood cells
Use glucose only, metabolize it only to lactose or pyruvate
Insulin dependent absorption of glucose happens where
Muscle
Adipose tissue
No insulin effect on glucose transport happens where
Brain, red blood cells, liver
Muscle in fed state
Glucose absorbed when insulin permits its entry
Active aerobic = glucose to CO2
Active anaerobic = glucose to lactate
Inactive = glucose to glycogen
Adipose in fed state
Dietary fat delivered to chylomicra, fatty acids and glucose absorbed, insulin stimulates glucose uptake and triglyceride assembly
Adipose in fasted state
Hydrolyze triglycerides for fuel to free fatty acids and glycerol
Liver in early fasted state
Generate glucose by breaking down glycogen
Produces ketone bodies
Muscle in fasted state
Uses fatty acids and ketone bodies as fuel
As starvation progresses what happens
Body becomes more dependent on fat as fuel,produce more ketone bodies, brain uses ketones for fuel
Liver in starvation
Some gluconeogenesis
Adipose in starvation
Hydrolyze triacylglycerols to free fatty acids and glycerol
Muscle in starvation
Use fatty acids and ketones as fuel
Brain in starvation
Uses ketones for fuel
Metabolism of toxic waste
Nitrogenous waste disposed as water soluble metabolites
Liver plays important role in metabolism of waste
What happens to urea in starvation
Production decreases as starvation proceeds
Bacteria classifications
Eukaryotes - animals, plants, parasites, fungi, archaebacteria
Prokaryotes - eubacteria, cyanobacteria
Eubacteria classification
Family, genus, species
Classification scheme
Numerical taxonomy, nuclei acid homology
Traditional - gram and acid fast stains, cell morphology and arrangement, growth conditions biochemical reactions
General properties of bacteria
No nucleus, rigid cell wall, cell envelope, 70s ribosome, polycistronic mRNA (no introns)
Virulence
Relative capacity of a pathogen to overcome body defenses
Increases ability to cause infection
May be spread via mobile genetic elements
May be structural component, enzymes, or toxins released from the cell
Capsule or slime layer
Widespread occurrence, dispensable for growth, hydrated gel
Function - to protect from external environment, protect cell from uptake by phagocytosis, attachment
Biofilms
Important sources of infection
Form on or within indwelling devices
Bacteria and yeast have been identified as components of biofilms
Once bacteria reach a suitable surface they colonize, reach a significant level then cell detachment and emboli occur
Antimicrobial resistance effectively spreads
Duration of indwelling devices correlates with infection risk
Pili or fimbrae
Short thin
Only on gram negative
2 types somatic and sex
Flagella
Long thin wave appendage, H antigen, basal body, hook, filament ( rotates using 256 H per turn)
Chemotaxis - counter clockwise is swimming, clockwise is twiddle
Prokaryotic cell wall
Responsible for cell shape and structural rigidity
Composition - peptidoglycan polysaccharide backbone, repeating disaccharides, cross linked by tetrapeptide bridge composition and linkages vary among organisms
Gram positive cell wall
Thick peptidoglyan, lipoteichoic acids, teichoic acids
Gram negative cell structure
Surface protein layer, outer membrane, periplasmic space, peptioglycan thinner and less cross linked, cytoplasmic inner membrane
Outer membrane composition of gram negative bacteria
Lipopolysachrides (LPS), phospholipids, proteins
LPS structure of gram negative bacteria
Lipid A endotoxin, core region, polysaccharide side chains (O antigen)
Function is to protect the cell
Periplasmic space of gram negative bacteria
Gel like solution of proteins and binding proteins, degradative enzymes, detoxifying enzymes, peptidoglycan cell wall
Cytoplasmic membrane of gram negative bacteria
Similar in gram negative and positive, 30% phospholipids 70% proteins, small amount of carbs, no sterols, osmotically fragile, enzymatically active, osmotic barrier
Endospores
Resistant to killing, cryptobiotic, means of survival
Triggered by exhaustion of C/N source, accumulates a large amount of calcium and dipicolinic acid, very stable
Endospores structure
Core, spore wall, cortex, spore coat, exosporium
Endospores activation
Spontaneous
Endospores germination
(Water, amino acid, or simple sugars)
Cortex swells, hydrolysis begins, water uptake, loss of heat resistance, excretion of calcium and dipicolinic acid
Spore germination
Core enlarges, mRNA synthesis, protein synthesis, energy by simple glycolysis, spore wall thickens, spore coat ruptures, cell emerges
Bacterial growth
Binary fusion, 4 stages (lag, exponential and logarithmic growth, stationary, death)
Analog to infectious disease
During incubation what happens
Increase nucleosides, amino acids, trnas
Bacterial growth requirements
Energy source, carbon source, nitrogen source, essential minerals, other metabolites
Types of bacterial energy and carbon sources
Photoautotrophs (requires light and carbon dioxide)
Photoheterotrophs (light and organic compounds)
Chemoautotrophs (inorganic chemicals and carbon dioxide)
Chemoheterotrophs (organic compounds and carbon)
Types of bacterial growth required minerals
Nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, trace elements (magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, cobalt, molybdenum, selenium)
Bacterial growth factors
Any ,metabolite bacteria can’t make for themselves
Environmental factors for bacterial growth
Temperature, salt concentration, pH, water, osmotic conditions, oxygen requirements
Obligate anaerobes
Oxygen is toxic
Aerotolerant anaerobes
Only grow in anaerobic conditions but not killed by oxygen
Facultative
Grow in aerobic and anaerobic conditions
Obligate aerobes
Require oxygen
Microaerophiles
Grow best under low oxygen tension
Capnophile
Grow best in the presence of increased carbon dioxide
What happens to toxic oxygen (superoxide) during metabolism
Detoxified by superoxide dismutase, catalase, and peroxidase
Bacteria cell division
Cell division and dna replication tightly coordinated, cell mass determines initiation of replication, rapidly growing bacteria have multiple replication forks
Energy yielding degradative catabolic pathways
Fermentation (partial oxidation of organic compounds)
Respiration (complete oxidation of organic compounds)
ATP and glucose (central to fermentation, respiration, and bio synthetic processes)
Anabolic pathways
Energy consuming, biosynthetic
Amphibolic processes
Involves both degradative and biosynthetic processes
Fermentation
Partial oxidation of organic compounds
2 phases : oxidation of glucose (2 ATP) and reductive (reoxidation of NADH2 and NADPH2)
Phases of fermentation
Embden meyerhof - 2 ATP from substrate level phosphorylation (NAD reduced, PEP to pyruvate)
Reductive phase - maintain oxidation reduction balance
End products - lactic acid, alcohol, mixed acid, butanediol, butyric acid, propionic acid
Propagation methods
Solid media
Liquid media (defined or complex)
Hemolysis on blood ager
Differential media, identification based on phenotype, color difference most common
Selective media
Selects for growth of 1 type of bacteria and inhibits another
MacConkeys agar
Promotes gram negative growth
Bile salts inhibit gram positive growth
Used for wounds, cervix, sputum, urine, stool
CNA agar
Promotes gram positive growth
Colistn and nalidixic acid inhibit gram negative growth
Used for blood, genital, urine
3 main bacterial tests
Microbial identification by isolation and culture
Identification by specific microbial genes or products
Detection of pathogen specific antibodies or pathogen specific antigens
Common lab test
Catalase, coagulase, oxidase, quelling reaction, antibiotics (optochin, novobiocin, bacitracin)
Bacteria identified by
Simple characteristics, biochemical properties
Bacterial antibiotic susceptibility test
Qualitative, quantitative, with images
Common stains
Gram, giemsa, periodical acid schiff, Ziehl neelsen, India ink, silver
Agglutination
Specific antibodies coated onto latex beads, useful when patient has received antibiotics
Immunofluorescence
Specific antibodies bind to immunifluorescent tag and will react with organisms to allow visualization
ELISA
Enzymes linked immunosorbent assay
Detects pathogens, antigens, or host antibodies against pathogens
Direct - presence of antigen analyzed
Indirect - antigen bound by primary antibody which is detected and labeled with a second antibody
PCR
detects a single gene target
normal flora is associated with what
skin and mucous membranes
most normal flora are what
commensals
what happens at birth in regards to normal flora
born sterile then will colonize
benefits of normal flora
antagonism - prevent colonization of pathogens
immunologic imprinting - primes host to response quickly to pathogens
maintin GI peristalsis and intestinal integrity
convert dietary carcinogens and precarcinogens to noncarcinogens
synthesis of vitamin k and b complexes
detrimental effects of normal flora
opportunistic infections - all normal flora has the potential to cause disease
ecological disruption leading to overgrowht by indogenous bacteria
convert noncarcinogens to carcinogens
general maladies caused by normal flora
dental caries, periodontal disease, abcesses, endocarditis
true resident flora
relatively fixed, in particular anatomical sites, if removed come back
transient flora
nonindoginous, do not establish as permanent members of normal flora, may colonize skin and mucous membranes for hours days or months
skin normal flora has more organisms where
sites with partial occlusion (axilla, perineum, toe webs)
what is the most common infectious agent
viruses
what are the severity rankings of viruses
subclinical, mild disease, moderately sever, life threatening, chronic disease, cancer
virus properties
small, obligate intracellular parasite, highly organized, uses host biosynthetic machinery, key enzymes for genome replication virally encoded
virus classification
RNA or DNA then family genus species
virus structure
genome - ssRNA, dsRNA, ssDNA, dsDNA
capsid
nucleocapsid (capside and genome together)
envelope (around nucleocapsid of some)
virion (infectious particles)
virus DNA genomes
linear, circular, size varies, all genomes single molecule
virus RNA genomes
70% viruses, high mutation rate, minimal RNA viruses linear, can be several RNA fragments, ssRNA classified based on polarity (act as mRNA = +, must be transcribed = -)
capsid structure
protein shell, infectious particle in viruses that dont have envelope, protomers are viral structural protein that form the capsid (bind w noncovalent bonds)
types of capsid structure
helical - cylindrical, protomer is single protein
icosahedran - crystalline, an icosahedron
complex - symmetry hasnt been resolved
envelope structure
surrounds capsid of some viruses, derived from modified portion of cellular membrane, viruses with and envelope sensitive to lipid solvents
viral pathogensis
process that produces disease (entry, replication, cytopathology, spread, interaction with host system, overall outcome of infection)
virus entry
direct inocculation, respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, genitourinary tract, conjunctiva
primar infrection
location of initial virus infection prior to systemic spread, some visuses only produce primary infection
prodrome
early symptoms before main disease presentation
cell and organ tropism
influenced by host and viral factors
virus spread
local - only replicates at site of inocculation
subepithelium invasion and lymphatic spread
viremia - most efficient, primary = low virion in blood, secondary = high virion in blood
cell injury
oucome of virus infection stems from fate of infected cell
macromolecular synthesis inhibited, damage to organelles, general cell necrosis
host immune response
positive effects
increase pathogenesis of virus
overall outcome of virus
subclinical, acute infection, persistent infection, slow viral diseases, transformation (tumors)
virus lifecycle
attachment, penetration, uncoating, biochemical replication, assembly, release
mykoses
disease caused by fungus
fungus
eukaryotic, most aerobes, derive nutrients via absorption
saprobes
live on dead or decaying material
commensals
live with another deriving benefits from its host, host may or may not benefit but not harmed
parasites
benefits from host without contributing to relationship, pathogenic if it harms the host
fungal structure
membrane bound organelles and cytoskeleton, plasmalemma (phospholipids and sterols), cell wall, capsule
imidiazole
antidungal, inhibit synthesis of ergosterol
polyene antifungals
bing more tightly to ergosterols than cholesterol
fungal cell wall
antigenic, multilayered (polysacharrides and proteins), polysacharrides = chitin, glucan, mannan
fungal capsule
polysacharide, only in some fungi, antiphagocytic and a virulence factor
yeast
unicellular, reproduce with nuclear fission and budding