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Topic 4 - Prokaryotic Cell Morphology Part 2 Flashcards

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Functions of external structures in bacteria and archaea

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  • Protection
  • Attachment to surfaces
  • Horizontal gene transfer
  • Cell movement
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Some structures that extend beyond the cell envelope in bacteria and archaea

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  • Fimbriae
  • Pili
  • Flagella
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Short, thin, hairlike, proteinaceous appendages (up to 1,000/cell)

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Fimbriae (s. fimbria)

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What is the job of fimbriae?

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  • Mediate attachment to surfaces

- Some (type IV fimbriae) required for motility or DNA uptake)

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  • Longer, thicker, and less numerous then fimbriae
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Sex pili (pl, pilus)

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Functions of sex pili

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  • Genes for formation found on plasmids

- Required for conjugation

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Threadlike, locomotor appendages extending outward from plasma membrane and cell wall

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Flagella

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Functions of flagella

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  • Motility and swarming behavior
  • Attachment to surfaces
  • May be virulence factors
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  • Thin, rigid protein structures that cannot be observed with bright-field microscope unless specially stained
  • Pattern of flagellation varies
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Domain Bacteria flagella

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One flagellum

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Monotrichous

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Flagellum at end of cell

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Polar flagellum

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One flagellum at each end of cell

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Amphitrichous

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Cluster of flagella at one or both ends

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Lopchotrichous

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Flagella spread over entire surface of cell

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Peritrichous

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Three parts of a flagellum

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  1. Filament
  2. Hook
  3. Basal body
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  • Extends from surface to the tip of flagellum
  • Hollow, rigid cylinder
  • Composed of the protein flagellin
  • Some bacteria have a sheath around filament
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Filament

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The protein that composes the flagellum filament

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Flagellin

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  • In the flagellum

- Links filament to basal body; made of protein

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Hook

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  • Series of rings that drive flagellar motor
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Basal body

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Explain flagellar synthesis

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  1. Complex process involving many genes and proteins
  2. New flagellin molecules transported through the hollow filament to tip
  3. Filament subunits self-assemble with help of filament cap at tip, not base
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Motility in domain Bacteria and Archaea

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  1. Flagellar movement
  2. Spirochete motility
  3. Twitching motility
  4. Gliding motility
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Directed cell movement in response to some stimulus

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Taxis

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Move toward chemical attractants such as nutrients, away from harmful substances

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Chemotaxis

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Bacteria and Archaea can also move in response to what?

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Temperature, light, oxygen, osmotic pressure, and gravity

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Changing concentrations of chemical attractants and chemical repellents does what?

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Binds chemoreceptors of chemosensing system

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  • Flagellum rotates like a propeller

- Very rapid rotation up to 1100 revolutions/sec

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Bacterial flagellar movement

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The two parts of a flagellum

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  1. Rotor

2. Stator

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How does the rotor in the flagellum work?

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C (FliG protein) ring and MS ring turn and interact with stator

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Mechanic machine made of Mot A or Mot B proteins

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Stator

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How do stators work?

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  1. Form channel through plasma membrane
  2. Protons move through Mot A and Mot B channels using energy of proton motive force
  3. Torque powers rotation of the basal body and filament
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Have corkscrew shape which allows them to move in viscous media

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Spriochete Motility

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How does spirochete motility work?

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  1. Multiple flagella form axial fibril which winds around the cell
  2. Flagella remain in periplasmic space inside outer sheath
  3. Corkscrew shape exhibits flexing and spinning movements
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  • Involves contact with surface

- May involve Type IV pili and slime

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Twitching and gliding motility

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  • Pili at ends of cell
  • Short, intermittent, jerky motions
  • Cells are in contact with each other and surface
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Twitching

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  • Smooth movements
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Gliding

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Prokaryotic cytoplasmic structures

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  • Cytoskeleton
  • Intracytoplasmic membranes
  • Inclusions
  • Ribosomes
  • Nucleoid and plasmids
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Material bounded by the plasmid membrane

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Cytoplasm

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What is the cytoplasm composed of?

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  • 90-94% water
  • Dissolved solutes (ions, sugars, amino acids)
  • Somewhat viscous
  • Many enzymes and ribosomes
  • Cytoskeleton? Cyclosis?
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Network of fibrous proteins within cytoplasm

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The cytoskeleton

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What is special about the cytoskelton in regards to the different domains?

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Homologs of all 3 eukaryotic cytoskeletal elements have been identified in bacteria and 2 in archaea

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Function of cytoskeleton in things besides eukaryotes

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Role in cell division, protein localization, and determination of cell shape

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Homologs of all 3 eukaryotic cytoskeletal elements have been identified in ____

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Bacteria

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Membrane bound storage structures containing granules of organic or inorganic material that are stockpiled by the cell for future use

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Inclusions

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Some inclusions are enclosed by a ________, but not a _____

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  • single layer membrane

- Unit membrane

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Three facts about inclusions

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  1. Membranes vary in composition
  2. Some made of proteins; others contain lipids
  3. May be referred to as microcompartments
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Storage of nutrients, metabolic end products, energy, building blocks

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Storage Inclusions

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Not bound by membranes but compartmentalized for a specific function

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Microcompartments

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Contain the enzyme ribulose - 1,5,- bisphosphate carboxylase, enzyme used for CO2 fixation

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Carboxysomes - CO2 fixing bacteria

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  • Found in aquatic, photosynthetic bacteria and archaea

- Provide buoyancy in gas vesicles

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Gas vacuoles

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  • Found in aquatic bacteria

- Magnetite particles for orientation in Earth’s magnetic field

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Magnetosomes

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What is in the cytoskeleton of magnetosomes and what does it do?

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Protein MamK

- Helps form magnetosome chain

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Why are ribsomomes complex structures?

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  • Consist of protein and rRna

- Site of protein synthesis

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Complex, dormant structure formed by some bacteria in various locations within the cell

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The bacterial endospore

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What is the function of the bacterial endospore

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To survive extreme environments for the organism

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What environmental conditions are the bacterial endospore resistant to?

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  • Heat
  • Radiation
  • Chemicals
  • Dessication
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What does the endospore structure contain?

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  1. Spore surrounding by thin covering called exosporium
  2. Thick layers of protein form the spore coat
  3. Cortex, beneath the coat, thick peptidoglycan
  4. Core has nucleoid and ribosomes
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What makes an endospore so resistant?

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  • Calcium (complexed with dipicolinic acid)
  • Small, acid-soluble, DNA-binding proteins (SAPSs)
  • Dehydrated core
  • Spore coat and exsporium protect
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  • Process of endospore formation

- Occurs in a few hours (up to 10)

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Sporulation

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When does sporulation commence?

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Normally commences when growth ceases because of lack of nutrients, or presence of toxic substances

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Transformation of endospore into vegetative cell complex, multistage process

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Germination

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Three steps to formation of vegetative cell

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  1. Activation
  2. Germination
  3. Outgrowth
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  • Prepares spores for germination

- Often results from treatments like heating

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Activation

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  • Environmental nutrients are detected
  • Spore swelling and rupture of absorption of spore coat
  • Loss of resistance
  • Increased metabolic activity
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Germination

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Emergence of vegetative cell

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Outgrowth

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  • May exist in many copies in cell
  • Inherited stably during cell division
  • Curing is the loss of a plasmid
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Plasmids

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What is classification of plasmids based on?

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Mode of existence, spread, and function

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