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Lecture 3 - Bacterial Morphology Flashcards

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Bacillus shape is _____

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rod shaped

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coccus is

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spherical

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Spiral forms? (2)

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spirilla & spirochete (spirochete more tightly coiled)

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How is structure of bacteria determined?

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The osmotic pressure affects the way cell wall is synthesized bc cell wall responsible for prevent lysis (concentrated cytoplasm)

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What would allow a bacterial species to not have a peptidoglycan cell wall?

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If in an isotonic environment

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What is the best way to prev the growth or kill bacteria?

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create drugs/toxins that exploit cell wall synthesis

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What does the lipopolysaccharide do?

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protect against THREATS

  • immune system
  • antibiotics
  • toxins
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Common features of eubacterial cells include: (4)

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  • viscous cytoplasm (concentrated)
  • circular chromosome in nucleoid
  • Cell wall of peptidoglycan
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What makes up most of the bacterial composition during balanced exponential growth?

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lots of proteins and lots of RNA (all three types)

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What is the difference between the bacterial envelopes of gram neg and gram positive?

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gram negative have two membranes and a peptidoglycan cell wall (thin)
gram positive have one membrane and multilayer peptidoglycan

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What is the s layer and when is it needed?

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It is needed in hostile environments and protects against phagocytosis

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What parts of the phosphoglyceride can be changed depending on the environment?

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  • the attachment of other molecules to phosphoryl head group
  • the fatty acid chain eg cold temp may lead to bact with more cis unsaturated bonds to create kinks that increase fluidity.
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What things affect cell membrane fluidity ?

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  • temperature
  • cholesterol
  • saturation
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What can easily passively transport ?

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small uncharged hydrophobic molecules or water due to osmosis

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What diffuses slowly across membranes?

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large charged polar molecules

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What can cross membranes when not ionized?

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-weak acids and bases

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If want passive diffusion of hydrophilic solutes across membrane need?

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Desolvation, so using transport can decrease energy needed to cross membrane

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Active vs passive transport concentration gradient?

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active is against, passive is with

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What can bacteria synthesize but humans can not?

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vitamins

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What is ABC transporter?

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An ATP binding cassette transporter - ATP binds onto transporter so solute can go through, not the actual hydrolysis of ATP.

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What does the bacterial cell wall consist of? (go beyond peptidoglycan)

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Polymer of alternating N-acetylglucosamine & N -acetylmuramic acid sugars

22
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What subunit of peptidoglycan contains 4-6 peptide residues?

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N-acetylmuramic acid

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What linkage is peptidoglycan?

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1,4 Beta linkage

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What makes 1,4 Beta linkage good?

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protects against hydrolysis

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What does cross link between polymer chains help with?
Strength & shape
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What do most drugs attack specifically about peptidoglycan?
the cross link between M-M
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Why does the cross link of muramic acids have D-aa?
to avoid protease recognition
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What helps keep cell wall rigid and withstand turgor pressure?
sacculus
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What is the difference between a persistent and resistant bacteria?
A persistent bacteria - does not grow, so unaffected by a drug while a resistant bacteria - is unaffected by a drug
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Why bacteria blow up at center?
bc septum is where peptidoglycan break down and new one form for the dividing bacteria
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Negative gram bacteria have outer cell walls that are ____ & is another ____ to overcome
toxic and barrier
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What is the difference between endotoxin and exotoxin?
Exotoxin is toxin a bacteria can release when its alive and endotoxin is something it releases after it dies eg septic shock from overwhelmed immune sys
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What is example of endotoxin?
LPS
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What part of the LPS do toll like receptors recognize?
Lipid A
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What connects outer to inner?
murein lipoprotein
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What is unique about O antigens?
they are highly variable
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Why useful O antigen highly variable? What else can they do?
avoid immune detection & protect against detergents
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Secondary active transport usually involves what integral protein?
Symporter eg free energy from ion down its concentration gradient
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What do detergents do to compromise cell membranes?
dissolve membrane by forming micelle around lipids and integral proteins (hydrophobic parts)
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O antigens helps prev dissolve lipid by protect against detergent, so what does Lipid A do?
Lipid A helps protect against hydrophilic
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What do you need if you want big, charge things into cell? What does this mean for how organism can be exploited?
transport ; certain threats to the bacteria can recognize the bacteria by the specific receptor they express eg. LamB maltose & viral recognition.
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What beta barrel protein helps mediate export of Ab and toxins?
Beta barrel protein TolC
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What does the gram positive cell envelope have? What two envelope characteristics do gram - bact also have?
capsule, S-layer, teichoic acids ; capsule & S-layer
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What envelope layer has pores, hard to detect even by gene seq, and have several arrangements?
S-layer
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What is teichoic acid that bind to peptidoglycan ?
wall teichoics acids.
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Teichoic acid attached to lipid membrane?
lipoteichoic acid
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What species has a very unique cell envelope?
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
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What are the consequences of large/unique cell env of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis?
- slow growth bc can't bring all the resources necessary in as quickly - less permeability to drugs

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