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How are hydrolytic exo-enzymes used?

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  • secreted extracellularly
  • breaking down large substrates into components via addition of H2O
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What are the 4 major classes of proteases

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-Metalloproteases
- Serine proteases
- Cysteine proteases
- Aspartate proteases

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What proteases serve as virulence factors?

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  • Elastaste
  • Hyaluronidase
  • Collagenase
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How can proteases be a drug target

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  • HIV is normally treated with protease inhibitors
  • proteolytic cleavage of polypeptide precursors into mature enzymes and structural proteins is essential
  • protease inhibitors mimic the viral protease’s actual substrates
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Is energy needed for amino acid uptake?

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Yes, ATP
- amino acids can be assimilates or catabolized

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What are the 2 families of ABC systems amino acid uptake

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  • Polar amino acid transport family (Histidine premeases)
  • Hydrophobic amino acid transport family
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How does amino acid deamination work?

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  • Yields a- keto acids
    * can feed into central metabolism where they are oxidized for energy (ATP) by NADH producing dehydrogenases
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What are the 3 phases of anaerobic digestion?

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  1. Hydrolysis and Fermentation: Organic waste is broken into VFAs, H2, and CO2
  2. Acetogenesis: Fermentation products consumed and Acetic Acid+ COs, H2
  3. Methanogenesis: Methanogens use H2 as energy source with CO2 as TEA to form methane
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What are the 3 principle microbial groups?

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  1. Fermentative microbes (acidogens)
  2. Hydrogen- producing, acetate- forming microbes (acetogens)
  3. Methanogenic archaea (methanogens = archea)
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What happens during hydrolysis and fermentative acidogenesis?

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Hydrolytic enzymes of microbial heterotrophs hydrolyze polymer substrates into smaller products, primarily monomeric units then consumed

Key enzymes: Lipases, proteases, cellulases, amylases, pectinases

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What happens during acetogenesis?

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Reverse acetyl co A pathway

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What happens during methanogenesis?

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2 main routes:
1. Hydrogenotrophic
hydrogen: CO2+ 4H2 –> CH4+ 2H2O
2. Acetoclastic (majority of biomethane 66%)
acetate: Ch3Cooh –> CH4+CO2

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What are the enzymes that allow aerobes to survive in o2 rich environments

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Super oxide dismutase (SOD) + catalase

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What is the saccharification process?

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Amylase endohydrolase hydrolyzes the alpha glycosidic bonds of starch while glucoamylases break dextrin oligomers into glucose and maltose

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What does cellulase do?

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Catalyze hydrolysis of beta 1,4 glycosidic linkages of cellulose polymer

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Microbes can grow in aerobic and anaerobic conditions using what process?

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substrate level phosphorylation

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What is fermentation?

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Catabolic process where organic molecules serve as electron donors and acceptors
- regeneration NAD electron carrier

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What is the purpose of pyruvate in fermentation?

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Starting point of many fermentations

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What is the simplest fermentation?

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homolactic fermentation using lactate dehydrogenase

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What is alcoholic/ ethanol fermentation?

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  • Characteristic of yeast
  • CO2 produced is the gas involved in the rising of yeast bread
  • Carbon lost from pyruvate as its converted to ethanol
  • Enzymes: pyruvate decarboxylase and alcohol dehydrogenase
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What are the 2 fermentations that allow for renewable biofuel energy (ABE fermentation)?

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  1. acidogenesis: acetate and butyrate are formed
  2. solventogenesis: ethanol, butanol and acetone formed
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22
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How are biogeochemical elements cycled?

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depends on size, reservoir location, chemical recalcitrance, and chemical reactivity (N2 vs. O2)
- smaller reservoir size= faster cycling and disruption

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What theory did Joseph Fourier propose?

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The Greenhouse Effect theory

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What are the repercussions of carbon cycle destabilization?

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  • fossil fuel consumption increased the amount of CO2 in the environment
  • resulting in ocean acidification
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Advantages of butanol

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  • powering existing motor vehicle engines directly
  • produced by existing microbes without genetic modification or reliance on H2
  • production relies on ABE fermentation
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What is the name of the acterium isolated by Chaim Weizmann?

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Clostridium acetobutylicum

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What happens during acidogenesis?

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-Clostridium uptakes and catabloizes glucose to pyruvate via EMP then decarboxylates to Acetyl-CoA
- Acetyl-CoA reduced to acetate (C2) or butyrate (C4)
- Acetic acid and butyric acid drop pH

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What happens during solventogenesis?

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Clostridium converts acetate and butyrate acid to butanol and acetone

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What happens when pH drops due to acidogenesis?

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expression of solventogenic genes

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30
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How are amino acids fermented?

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oxidative deamination of one amino acid is coupled to the reduction of a second amino acid as the electron acceptor
- hydrogen gas formation possible

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What is a stickland reaction?

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  • coupled oxidation of amino acids to organic acids
  • NAD+ formed
  • amino acids can be stickland acceptors or donors or both
  • only histidine cannot be fermented by stickland reactions
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32
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What is a chemolithoautotroph?

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an organism that oxidizes inorganic chemicals for electrons needed to autotrophically fix CO2

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What are the 4 carbon fixation pathways autotrophs use to fix CO2 and support ecosystems?

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  1. reverse TCA cycle- Chlorobium
  2. Reductive Acetyl-CoA pathway- clostridium
  3. 3 hydroxy- propionate- chloroflexus
  4. Calvin cycle- algae
34
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Autotroph definition

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organism that anabolically builds complex organic chemicals from inorganic carbon

35
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Mixotroph definition

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organism that can grow using autotrophy and heterotrophy

36
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heterotroph definition

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organism that catabolizes complex organic chemicals for energy as well as carbon skeletons

37
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What do methanotrophic bacteria use for energy?

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CH4

38
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What compound does carboxydotrophic bacteria use?

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carbon monoxide
- use calvin cycle
- hallmark is aerobic CODH-ACS synthase enzyme

39
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What are the 2 different CODH/ACS?

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Mo-Fe-Flavin containing enzymes found in aerobic bacteria
Fe-Ni containing enzymes found in anaerobic bacteria

40
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What is used in the reverse TCA cycle as an electron donor?

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  • inorganic reduced compounds like H2 or sulfide
  • providing energy to fix CO2 when organics absent
41
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What happens during the reverse TCA cycle?

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  • incorporation of 2 CO2 and the input of 8 H and 2 ATP
  • uses ATP citrate lyase to cleave citrate (KEY BRANCH POINT) into oxaloacetate and acetyl CoA
42
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What happens during the reductive acetyl CoA pathways

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CO2 used to form acetyl CoA
- most efficient of all carbon assimilation pathways

43
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What happens during the 3-hyrdoxypropionate cycle?

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Co2 used to produce ATP and NADPH

44
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What is the difference between photosynthesis and chemosynthesis?

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Photosynthesis uses CO2 and H2O to make carbs and oxygen
Chemosynthesis uses CO2+H2O+ hydrogen sulfide+ O2 to make carbs and sulphuric acid

45
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What happens during tube worm sybiosis?

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-Thioautotrophic sulfur bacteria reside symbiotically inside the various species of tubeworms
- worms absorb hydrogen sulfide which helps produce organic molecules for the tubeworm

46
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What is a thioautotrophic bacteria

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obtain energy for biosynthesis through sulfide oxidation
requiring sulfur and oxygen

47
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What are bioelectrochemical systems?

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  • use microbes to convert chemical energy to electrical energy or vice versa
  • use whole cells as biocatalysts to drive oxidation and reduction reactions at electrodes
48
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What are the 2 types of bioelectrochemical systems?

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  1. Microbial fuel cells- using exo-electrogenic bacteria to breakdown chemicals and donate useful electrons through a circuit
    - for electricity
  2. Microbial electrosynthesis cells- electrotrophic bacteria on the cathode accept electrons to store input electrical energy as chemical fuel bonds
    - for biofuel
49
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What are the 2 electron transfer mechanisms?

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  1. direct electron transfer- geobacter
  2. soluble mediators- shewanella
50
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What is the point of a photopigment- absorbed light

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  • used to build PMF while NADP+ is the interim electron acceptor
51
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What happens during non- cyclic photophosphorylation?

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  • electrons travel in a unidirectional path from the initial e- donor (H2O) to the e- acceptor
52
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What happens during cyclic phosphorylation?

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  • production of ATP during light dependent stage of photosynthesis
  • no photolysis of water and no NADP+ is reduced
  • photosystem 1 is involved in 2 e- are released which are accepted by the ETC
  • as electrons are transferred along the chain energy released pumps protons across the thylakoid membrane
53
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What is the energetic link between light and dark reactions in photosynthesis?

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ATP and NADPH

54
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What happens during the calvin benson cycle?

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  • 3 CO2 molecules are consumed to form 1 3-carbon sugar
  • 3 phases: carbon fixation, reduction, and regeneration of RuBP
  • relies on light reactions to provide the AP and NADPH
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What are the 2 main enzymes of the calvin benson cycle?

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  • phospho-rublokinase
    makes ADP and ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate
  • rubisco
    carboxylates RuBP then rearranges and lyses to yield 2 3- carbon molecules
56
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What are the substrates produced from the calvin benson cycle?

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  • for each glucose formed the calvin cycle uses 6 CO2 molecules and 9 ATP and 6 NADPH
  • ATP and NADPH are regenerated during the light reactions
57
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What happens during the first phase of the calvin benson cycle?

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(CO2 fixation by rubisco)
- rubisco depends on the active site magnesium
- magnesium is essential in facilitating the conversion of the RuBP substrate to an enediolate that acts as a nucleophile toward a substrate CO2 molecule

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What happens during the reduction phase of the calvin benson cycle?

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  • ATP donates a phosphate group to BPG via phophoglycerate kinase (phosphorylation)
  • NADPH donates electron via glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (reduction)
  • each step is completes 6 times in order to create 6 molecules of GAP
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What happens during the regeneration phase of the calvin benson cycle?

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  • consuming 3 ATP and yielding new RuBP substrate
60
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What is the rate-limiting step of the calvin benson cycle?

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the formation of the enediolate
- first step in the mechanism of the completing oxygenase reaction

61
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What is the challenge between rubisco and oxygen

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  • oxygen can bind easily to the site designed to bind to the CO2
  • rubisco then attaches the oxygen to the sugar chain, forming a faulty oxygenated product
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What are solutions to rubisco’s inefficiency?

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  • protein overexpression
  • multiple functional active sites
  • transporters import bicarbonate and CO2 substrate into the cell
  • carboxysome
  • carbonic anhydrase
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What does the carboxysome do?

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  • bicarbonate enters through pores in the proteinaceous shell
  • mediates the conversation to CO2 for use by rubisco
  • substrates enter the carboxysome as glyceraldehyde exits
64
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What are the 2 classes of autoinducers?

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  1. acyl homoserine lactone based (gram-negative)
  2. Oligopeptide-based (gram-positive)
65
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Characteristics of gram-negative autoinducers

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  • linked to variable, species-specific R groups
  • R group variability is a language that enables intra specific communication
  • autoinducers exit the cell via diffusion or active trransport
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Characteristics of gram positive autoinducers

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  • oligopeptides
  • actively transported from the cell
  • activate 2 component regulatory elements of neighbors via membrane receptor kinases and intracellular phosphorylation cascade to response regulator
67
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What method was discovered by Tomasz and Nealson?

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Quorom sensing

68
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GO OVER LUX R STEPS IN QUOROM SENSING LECTURE

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69
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What are the 4 steps V. fischerii uses to perform quorum sensing?

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  1. basal level of constitutive AHL signal expression
  2. local AHL signal accumulation due to increased cell density
  3. intracellular signal recognition
  4. autoinduction plus positive feedback activation of gene targets
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What occurs during quorum sensing in gram-positive bacteria?

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  • constitutively expressed autoinducer peptides cannot diffuse across cell membranes
  • export occurs through exporters involved in signal processing from larger precursors translated inside the cell
  • export processing often integrates thiolactone rings or isoprenyl groups into the autoinducer peptides`
71
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What is the purpose of apoptosis in bacteria?

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  • benefit members of their own species
  • nutrients and essential growth factors are released during times of starvation
72
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What is exogenous metabolism?

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  • starved cells catabolize to reserve intracellular components to ensure survival
  • occurs during extreme nutrient limitation conditions
73
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What components help reserve storage materials?

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  • glycogen
  • lipids: PHa, wax esters, TAGS
  • proteins
  • polyphosphate
74
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What compound is used to reserve carbohydrates in prokaryotes?

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  • glycogen (alpha 1,4 and 1,6 linked glucose)
  • accumulated during the high-fed state
  • glucose is produced through gluconeogenesis is accumulated in starch
75
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How is glycogen used in catabolism?

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  • used early during starvation
76
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What does glycogen phosphorylase do?

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  • cleaves glucose-1- phosphate from the terminal alpha-1,4-glycosidic bond
  • de-branching enzyme targets alpha 1,6 branches
77
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Tetrahalose

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  • alpha 1,1 linked glucose dimer
  • normally not synthesized in bacteria but many can catabolize it via trehalase
  • tetrahalose can also enable cells to survive severe deiccation
78
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What lipids are used for energy storage?

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PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates)
TAG (triacylglycerides)
Wax esters

79
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What bacteria are TAGs used by?

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used mainly by high GC gram positive actinomycetes

80
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What is the purpose of phosphates?

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polyphosphate-accumulating organisms
- transferring p from the excess ATP
- useful for enhancing biological phosphorus removal

81
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What is the purpose of peptides?

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  • cyanobacteria also use proteins
  • microbes using proteins
82
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How does cyanophycin use polypeptides?

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  • pigment in antenna complex
  • non ribosomal synthesis
  • CO2 and NH3 released, blue green cells turn yellow
  • active in heterocysts

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