Midterm Flashcards
Robert Hooke
Micrographia (first book to show observations under a microscope)
Van Leeuwenhoek
See microscopic life through microscope for the first time
Louis Pasteur (4 things)
Fermentation
Vaccines can be created by weakening microbes
Disproved spontaneous generation (swan neck flask)
Pasteurization
Germ Theory
Pasteur,Koch,others
Many diseases caused by microorganisms, can be passed from person to person
Edward Jenner
Vaccinated a boy with cow pox to render immunity to smallpox
Robert Koch
Germ theory
4 postulates
Causes of anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera
Bacillus anthracis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Vibrio cholera
Koch’s postulates
Microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms with the disease, and not in healthy ones
Microorganism must be isolated from organism and grown in pure culture
Cultured microorganism should cause disaese when put in healthy microorganism
Microorganism must be isolated from new host, and should be identical to orgininal causitive agent
Joseph Lister
Antiseptics in surgery
Fanny Hesse
Agar as culturing medium
Alexander Fleming
Penicillin
Which microorganisms can synthesize vitamin B12
Archaea and bacteria only
Microorganism responsible for the plague
Yersinia pestis
Characteristics of life
Metabolism Growth Reproduction Homeostasis Evolution Adaptation
Cell membrane function
Homeostasis
Controls flow of molecules into and out of cell
Proteins
50-55% dry cell weight
Composed of amino acids
Catalyze most cell reactions
Structural components
Nucleic acids
RNA 15-20% dry weight
DNA 2-5% dry weight
Lipids
10% dry weight
Polysaccharides
6-7% dry weight
When did the earliest microbes appear (origin of life)
3.5-4 billion ya
First oxygen producing bacteria
3 billion ya
Atmospheric oxygen
2 billion ya
When did complex eukarya originate
1.5 billion ya
Experiment which showed how microbial life arised
Miller
Showed organic molecules found in living cells could be synthesized from a mimicked primordial atmosphere
Boiling flask = ocean
Electrical sparks = lightning
Organic molecules including amino acids in collected sample
Yeast bacteria
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Vibrio
Curved rod shaped bacteria
Spirilla
Spiral shaped bacteria
Pleiomorphic
Irreular shaped bacteria
FtsZ
Helps in cell division
Monomers form a Z ring which directs cell wall synthesis and contracts as cells divide by releasing subunits
MreB
Provides structure during cell wall formation
Leads to elongated cylinder
Non-spherical bacteria
ParM
Dircts plamid movement during cell division
Ensures each daughter cell gets a copy
Hypotonic
Greater solute concentration in cell
Cell swells
Hypertonic
Greater solute concentration outside cell
Cell shrivels
Symport
Both substances moving in the same direction through cell membrane
Antiport
Substances moving in opposite directions through cell membrane
Facilitated diffusion
Using a protein channel to move particles with the concentration gradient
No energy
Sec pathway
Pathway which proteins are exported through
SecB signal sequence
Delivery to SecA and then Sec YEG channel
Peptidoglycan composition
N-acetylglucosamine (NAG)
N-acetylmuramic acid (NAM) with a small peptide chain
How is peptidoglycan made
NAM is made in the cytoplasm then linked to UDP then to bactoprenol
NAG is added
Bacteoprenol flips them to the periplasm
Polymeriztion and crosslinking
Bacitracin
Interferes with dephosphorylation of bactoprenol therefore interfering with peptidogylcan and cell wall synthesis
Lysozyme
Hydrolyzes beta1,4 linkages between NAG and NAM in bacteria
Degrades cell wall
Lysostaphin
Acts on peptidogylcan crossbridge
Beta lactam antibiotics
Bind to penicillin binding proteins preventing them from crosslinking peptidoglycan
Make cells prone to cell bursting
Acts on growing cells
Beta lactamase
Can hydrolyze C-N bond in beta lactam ring rendering antibiotic ineffective
Gram positive
Purple stain Thick peptidpglycan layer Narrow periplasmic space teichoic and lipoteichoic acids in peptidoglycan Large pores in peptidoglycan
Gram negative
Pink stain
Thin peptidoglycan
Varying periplasmic space
Outer membrane with lipopolysaccharides (LPS)
anchored peptidogylcan by lipoproteins
Porins or TonB proteins transfer molecules to periplasmic space
Type________secretion system similar to flagella transports proteins directly from __________ through _________
III
Cytoplasm
Inner and outer membrane
Other motility strategies
Gliding motility
Actin based motility (pushed by polymers of actin)
Other adhesion strategies
Stalks (tubular extensions of cell envelope)
Polysaccharides (ex. Capsule)
Model fungi
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Cell walls of chitin
Used to make bread,beer, etc.
Penicillin is made by __________
Penicillium chrysogenum
Mould that appears in most homes
____________ species are of biomedical and industrial significance
Aspergillus
Model protozoa
Giardia lamblia
Old
Lacks mitochandria
Causes human disease (bever fever)
Model slime mold
Dictyostelium discoideum
Protozoan