Unit 4 Flashcards
5 phyla in Bacteria
- Proteobacteria
- Firmicutes, Tenericutes, Actinobacteria
- Bacteroidetes
- Chlamydiae, Planctomycetes, Verrucomicrobia
- Hyperthermophilic bacteria
- other
Proteobacteria
- largest metabolic diversity
- highest significance in medicine, agriculture, industry
- metabolic: aerobic, anaerobic, microaerophilic, chemolithotrophs, chemoorganotrophs, phototrophs
- based on 16S r RNA
5 classes of Proteobacteria
- alphaproteobacteria
- betaproteobacteria
- gammaproteobacteria
- deltaproteobacteria
- epsilonproteobacteria
- zetaproteobacteria
alphaproteobacteria
- rhizobia- plants symbionts
- Rhizobium
- Rickettsia
- Caulobacter
rhodopseudomonas
nitrobacter - genes enable them to form nodules acquired through HGT
- Agrobacterium tumefaciens associated with plants (cannot form root nodules)
- genes involved in gall disease nonrelated to nodule formation genes
Rickettsia rickettsii
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- obligate, intracellular parasite
- metabolically specialized to use glutamate or glutamine as energy source
Wolbachia pipientis
colonize insect eggs
- obligate, intracellular parasite
- metabolically specialized to use glutamate or glutamine as energy source
betaproteobacteria
Burkholderia
Neisseria
Nitrosomonas
- Burkholderia cepacia
- soil organism
- opportunistic pathogen
- disease protection (promote plant growth)
- form biofilms (problem in hospitals)
Neisseriales
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Neisseria meningitidis
fatal inflammation of membranes of lining the brain
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
causative agent of gonorrhea
Methylophilales
Methylophilus methylotrophus
Nitrosomonadales
Nitrosomonase europea
Nitrosopira sp.
gammaproteobacteria
largest and most diverse
well-known pathogens
Enterobacteriales
“enteric bacteria”
fermentation - SLP
E. coli
gammaproteobacteria
- nutritional role in intestinal tract (K)
- helps O2 consumption in gut (anoxic)
- pathogenic strains (uti, diarrhea)
- enterohemorrhagic E coli strain (enterotoxin- foodborne disease)
Enterobacter aerogenes
gammaproteobacteria
- water and sewage
- intestional tract
- urinary tract
Klebsiella pneumoniae
gammaproteobacteria
- soils and water
- humans
- fixes N2 - unique in enteric bacteria
Salmonella
gammaproteobacteria
- always pathogenic
- typhoid fever and gastroenteristis
Proteus
gammaproteobacteria
- highly motile
- urease
- causes UTI
Shigella dysenteriae
gammaproteobacteria
- endotoxin
- invades epithelial cells
- excretes neurotoxin
- acute GIT distress
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
gammaproteobacteria
- burn victims, cystic fibrosis
- resistant to antibiotics bc of R plasmid
Vibrio cholerae
- gammaproteobacteria
causes cholera in humans
deltaproteobacteria
- sulfate reducers
- sulfur-reducers
- iron-reducers
- predator bacteria
famous deltaproteobacteria
bdellovibrio
myxococcus
desulfovibrio
geobacter
epsilonproteobacteria
helicobacter
campylobacter
- gram neg
- motile
- pathogenic
campylobacter
acute gastroenteritis
helicobacter pylori
pH adaptation in gut
- pathogen causes chronic/acute gastritis leading to peptic ulcers
- low pH triggers bacterial adaptation- urease enzyme (expressed)
- urease degrades urea to ammonia and CO2
- ammonia consumes H+ in cytoplasm- protect from acidification
zetaproteobacteria
Mariprofundus ferrooxydans
- microaerophilic
- Fe2+ = energy source
- O2 acceptor
- CO2 fixation
Firmicutes
lactic acid bacteria (LAB)
- gram pos known as main safe industrial-scale producers of lactic acid
Lactobacillus
lactobacillus delbrueckii
- prepare yogurt
streptococcus thermophilus
firmicutes
- acidification in cheese
- symbiotically grows in actobacillus delbrueckii
streptococcus pyogenes
strep
streptococcus viridans
mutants causing dental caries