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Lecture 4: Microbial Physiology Flashcards

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What are the three basic shapes of prokaryotic cells?

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  • rod
  • coccus
  • spirillum
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What size are prokaryotic cells?

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1-5 micrometers

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Additional morphologies of prokaryotic cells

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  • Star shaped: stella
  • rectangular Haloarcula (Archaea)
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Pleomorphic Bacteria Shapes

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Rhizobium and Corynebacterium

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Largest bacteria ever

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Thiomargarita Magnifica

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Cell wall

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  • peptidoglycan
  • Sugar chains cross linked by peptides
  • Cell wall building/turnover during growth and division can influence cell shape
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Turgor Pressure

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  • Cells contain lots of stuff-DNA, proteins, sugars,
    salts
  • If cells are in an aqueous (watery) environment,
    the surrounding medium has less stuff in it
  • Because of this disparity, water tends to flow into
    the cells, results in turgor pressure
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Rod Shaped

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  • bacilli (bacillus is a genus name)
  • G+ and G- rods
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What axis do bacilli divide?

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divide along narrow axis

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Streotiobacilli

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long chains of rods

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diplobacilli

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pairs of rods attached end to end

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coccobacilli

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very short rods, almost cocci

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vibrios “curved rods”

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  • Vibrio cholerae the agent of cholera
  • In the book described as spiral bacteria, but phylogenetically aligned with G- rods
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cocci

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sphere
- gram negative and positive

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different cocci have ___ division planes

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different

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What possible advantage is there to being rod or spirillum shaped vs. cocci?

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The way they associate with surfaces is different. Rod shaped has more contact with the surface than spheres. The way they stack/pack is also more beneficial.

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Streptococci

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divide along a single plane, form chains

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Staphylococci

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divide along all planes, form clumps

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how do other cocci divide?

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form tetrads and sarcinae, as well as pairs (diplococci)

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Spirillum

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  • one or two turns around helical axis
  • external flagella
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Spirochete

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  • flagella sheathed, run along length of cell
  • “corkscrew motility”
  • Borrellia Burgdorferi (Lyme disease) , treponema pallidum (syphilis)
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Prokaryote Physiology

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  • Cell Membrane
  • Outer membrane
  • Cell wall (peptidoglycan)
  • Exopolysaccharide matrix
  • Flagella
  • Pili and Fimbriae
  • Genome Structure
  • Ribosomes
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Overall Bacterial Structure

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  • External structures
    (pili, flagella, fimbriae)
     Outer Membrane G-
    only
     Cell wall
    (peptidoglycan sacculus or wall)
     Cell membrane
     Cytosol
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3 parts of Flagella

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3 parts
- filament (made of the protein flagellin)
- hook (different protein)
- Basal body

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Flagellar Assembly

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  • flagellin subunits travel up through the middle of the flagellum, to the growing tip
  • similar, evolutionarily related to Type III secretion important in pathogenesis.
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_____ flagella-distributed over cell body

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Peritrichous

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On cell surface, flagella can also be at….

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the poles

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monotrichous

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single at one end

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lophotrichous

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clump of flagella at one end

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Amphitrichous

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flagella at both ends

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Spirochete Flagella

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  • Very cool structure
     Doesn’t emerge from the cells
     Cool propulsion mechanism
     Cryoelectron tomography
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Are all bacteria motile?

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No

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Types of motility

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  • Tumble and swim
    chemotaxis
  • “gliding motility”
  • Spirochete corkscrew motility
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Fimbriae

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  • generally smaller and spread throughout a cell
  • Fimbriae-protein filaments on cell outer surface
  • Either at poles or evenly distributed
  • Important in cell attachment to surfaces
  • Well studied in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  • Fimbriae are a virulence factor for enteric, urogenital pathogens
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What do bacteria secrete/their pathways?

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  • make proteins to be exported to periplasm and
    surroundings
  • Sec pathway (general secretion)
  • Sec independent (type II)
  • Type III (virulence)
  • there are 10 known secretion pathways
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pilus/pili

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  • generally larger/longer and more sparse on the cell
  • involved in cell-cell attachment
    phenomena, in preparation for DNA
    transfer (conjugation)
  • Pili are sometimes the site of attachment for bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria
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Exopolysaccharide (EPS) Matrix (glycocalyx)

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  • Environmental bacteria often live on surfaces covered in EPS
  • Called a biofilm
  • In pathogenic microbes, this is often called the slime capsule
  • An important defense against the immune
    system
  • A virulence factor, esp. for G+ cocci pathogens
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S. Pneumoniae Capsule

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  • Streptococci are known for the production of capsule
  • Primary component
    hyaluronic acid
  • Mutants that don’t make capsule are avirulent
  • This was used to prove that DNA is the genetic material
    (1941)
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