Review Flashcards
cell wall in gram pos
peptidglycan layer outside cell membrane
what add’l feature present in gram pos and neg
capsule
what does capsule do
makes bacteria difficult to phagocytes to deal with unless it can be opsonized
compare and contrast gram neg and gram pos bac
ppt
what Ig do we need to opsinize capsule
IgG
difference b/w cell wall of gram pos and gram neg
thickness
what do we use to do use to differentiate if its gram pos or gram neg
gram stain
gram pos vs gram neg cell wall
gram pos 10x thicker
gram stain does what with gram pos
it’s trapped - crystal violet die is trapped so stained purple “violet”
gram pos will stain
blue (purple)
gram pos associated with the cell wall
teichoic acid & lipoteichoic acid
what two things are unique to gram pos
teichoic acid
lipoteichoic acid
describe gram stain and list the steps
to see if bacteria is pos or neg. fixation crystal violet iodine treatment decolorization counter stain safranin
LPS is part of gram pos or neg
gram neg
what TLR to detect LPS
TLR4
what is the toxic component of LPS
Lipid A component
four main mechanisms stuff can be transffered b/w bac
transposition
transformation
conjugation
transduction
transposition
transposons
the movement of small pieces of DNA called transposons to different locations in the genome and between plasmids. These are sometimes called “jumping genes.”
transformation
ability of bacterium to take up DNA from enviornment and stabilize by recombination into own chrom
“uptake of naked DNA”
conjugation
transfer of plasma DNA following contact or transfer of bacterial chromosomal genes if it recombines, then can transfer bacterial chromosomal genes that lie closest to the insertion point of the plasmid
the transfer of DNA through cell-to-cell contact
transduction
exchange of genetic info mediated by viruses that infect bac
the transfer of genetic information via bacterial viruses (phages).
two main mechanisms of transduction
generalized
specialized
generalized transduction what cycle
lytic cycle
specialized transdicution mediated by
lysogenic or temperate phages