Lesson 8: BACTERIAL METABOLISM Flashcards

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harness the suns light to make food and generate energy without using oxygen.

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Cyanobacteria

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The formation or breakdown of chemical bonds is made possible by collision of atoms, ions or molecules that are continuously moving and colliding with one another called

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Collision Theory

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the sum of all chemical reactions within a living organism. It is divided into two types of chemical reactions: the catabolic reaction and the anabolic reaction

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Metabolism

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an enzyme-regulated chemical process that releases energy whereby complex organic compounds are breakdown into simpler ones. This reaction mainly uses water (hydrolytic reaction) to break chemical bonds, and produce more energy that they consume (exergonic).

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Catabolism

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an enzyme-regulated chemical process that requires energy to build complex organic molecules from simpler ones. This reaction mainly releases water (dehydration synthesis reaction), and consume more energy that they produce

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Anabolism

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provide the building blocks for anabolic reactions and also supply the energy needed for it in the form ATP.

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Catabolic reactions

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The energy required for a chemical reaction is called

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Activation Theory

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They are substances which serve as biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions without them being permanently altered.

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Enzymes

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Each enzyme has a unique surface configuration that enables it to bind to its corresponding substance called

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Substrate

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The bind of Enzymes unique surface configuration to substrate

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The lock and key model

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results to a more effective collision of molecules and thus reduces the activation energy required for a reaction

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Effective Enzyme-substrate complex

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The mechanism of enzymatic actions are

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  1. The surface of the substrate contacts a specific region of the surface of the enzyme molecule called the active site.
  2. A temporary intermediate compounds forms, called an enzyme-substrate complex. 3. The substrate molecule is transformed either by rearrangement, breakdown or in combination with other molecule.
  3. The transformed substrate molecules are released from the enzyme molecule.
  4. The unchanged enzyme is now free to react with other substrate molecules.
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Some of the factors that influence enzymatic activity are

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Temperature
pH
substrate
inhibitors

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as it increases the rate of chemical reactions also increases. However, once the optimal is reached, chemical reaction is reduced following the denaturation (change in structure) of enzyme.

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Temperature

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the reaction also decline once optimal is reached.

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pH

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Inhibits enzymatic
action; can either be competitive or non-competitive

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Inhibitor

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compete with normal substrate for the active site

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Competitive Inhibitor

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interact with another part of the enzyme

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non-competitive inhibitor

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inhibitors bind to parts of the enzyme other than substrate binding site. This binding will change the shape of the enzyme making it inactive thus stops the cell to produce more substance than it

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allosteric or feedback inhibition

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The process by which non-competitive inhibitors carry out its function is called

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allosteric or feedback inhibition

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are a type of RNA that serving as catalyst acting specifically on strands of RNA

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Ribozymes

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two general aspects of energy production

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The concept of oxidation-reduction and the mechanisms of ATP generation.

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Oxidation is the removal of electron from an atom or molecule in a reaction
that produces energy. Reduction is gaining one or more electron. These
two reactions are always coupled, each time a molecule is oxidized
another is simultaneously reduced.

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Oxidation Reduction (Redox) Reactions

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Three mechanisms Phosphorylation

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  1. Substrate-level phosphorylation
  2. Oxidative phosphorylation
  3. Photophosphorylation
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used by cells in catabolism to extract energy from nutrient molecules. For example: oxidation of glucose (C6H12O6) to CO2 and H2O will release energy that will be trapped by ATP which can then serve as energy source.
Oxidation – Reduction (Redox) Reaction
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The generation of ATP
The energy released during redox reaction is trapped by ATP within the cell as energy reserve by addition of a phosphate group to ADP in a process called phosphorylation
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ATP is generated when a high energy P is directly transferred from phosphorylated compound to ADP
Substrate-level phosphorylation
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electrons are transferred from organic compound to a series of electron carriers in a system called electron transport chain. During transfer of electron from one carrier to another releases energy which then binds to ADP to generate ATP
Oxidative phosphorylation
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most common carbohydrate energy source used by cells.
Glucose
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occurs only in photosynthetic cells which contain chlorophyll (light energy trapping pigments) that can be converted into ATP in a process involving electron transport chain system
Photophosphorylation
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the primary source of cellular energy in most microorganisms.
Oxidation of carbohydrates
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splitting of sugar
Glycolysis
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Energy production from glucose use two processes
cellular respiration and fermentation, both process starts
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oxidation of glucose into pyruvic acid that occurs during the first stage of carbohydrate catabolism.
Glycolysis
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Glycolysis can also be called
Embden- Meyerhof pathway
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Other bacteria have alternative pathways of oxidizing glucose like
Pentose phosphate pathway or Entner-Doudoroff pathway
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Bacteria that uses Pentose Phosphate Pathway
B. subtilis E. coli Enterococcus faecalis
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Bacteria that uses Entner-Doudoroff pathway
Pseudomonas Agrobacterium
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Two processes of energy production from glucose
Cellular respiration and fermentation
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an ATP-generating process wherein the final electron acceptor is an inorganic molecule.
Cellular respiration
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done in a process called Krebs cycle also called as tricarboxylic cycle or citric acid cycle. Krebs cycle releases ATP from acetyl coA in its every step. Acetyl coA is the resulting complex of acetyl group (derived from pyruvic acid) and coenzyme A.
Aerobic respiration
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two kinds of cellular respiration
Aerobic respiration and anaerobic respiration
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Kreb Cycle can also be called as
tricarboxylic cycle or citric acid cycle
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the final electron acceptor is an inorganic molecule other than oxygen
Anaerobic respiration
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Examples od Anaerobic respiration
Pseudomonas and Bacillus using nitrate ion Desulfovibrio using sulfate.
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enerate energy from sugars and other organic molecules such as amino acids, organic acids, purines and pyrimidines by not requiring oxygen, Krebs cycle or electron transport chain system. Uses an organic molecule as the final electron acceptor but produces only small amounts of ATP.
Fermentation
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Examples of fermentaions
lactic acid fermentation and Alcohol Fermentation
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end-product is lactic acid
Lactic acid fermentation
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end-product is ethanol
Alcohol fermentation
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Bacteria that uses alcohol fermentation
Saccharomyces
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Bacteria that use lactic acid fermentation
Lactobacillus Streptococcus
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Aside from glucose, microbes also oxidize
lipids and proteins
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Enzymes that breaks down lipids
Lipases
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broken down by extracellular enzymes called lipases before it undergoes oxidation in Kreb’s cycle.
The fatty acids and glycerol in lipids
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broken into amino acids by enzymes proteases and peptidases before they can pass thru the plasma membranes. The amino acids then undergo deamination (removal of amino group) before it enters the Krebs cycle.
Proteins
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Enzymes that breaks down proteins
proteases and peptidases
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Removal of amino acids
deamination
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a process from which microorganisms can obtain energy from inorganic substance by converting sunlight energy into chemical energy. The chemical energy produced will then convert carbon dioxide in atmosphere to sugars in a process called carbon fixation
Photosynthesis
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a life mechanism on earth to recycle carbon dioxide excreted by other organisms (ex: human) to be used by plants and other microorganisms.
Carbon Fixation
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Two stages of photosynthesis
Light-dependent (light) reactions and; light independent (dark) reactions
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uses light energy to generate energy (photophosphorylation)
Light-dependent (light) reactions
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breakdown of carbon dioxide into sugar using energy generated in the first stage (Calvin-Benson cycle)
light independent (dark) reactions
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Metabolic pathways that uses the energy generated
1. Polysaccharide biosynthesis 2. Lipid biosynthesis 3. Amino acid and protein biosynthesis 4. Purine and pyrimidine biosynthesis