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MB 351 - Lecture 14 & 15 (Requirements for growth) Flashcards

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Obligate Aerobe

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require O2 as final e- acceptor in aerobic respiration. air is 21% Ox

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Obligate anaerobes (aerophobes)

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do not need O2. O2 is toxic, and can kill or inhibit growth. Live by fermentation, anaerobic respiration, bacterial photosynthesis. (Marshes, deep subsurfaces)

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Facultative anaerobes

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can switch between aerobic and anaerobic types of metabolism

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Microaerophile

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requires oxygen to survive, but requires environments containing lower levels of oxygen than are present in the atmosphere

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Aerotolerant anaerobe

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Don’t use O2 for growth, but tolerate it. Exclusively anaerobic metabolism.

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The medium that may be used to grow microorganisms under aerobic conditions, or to test for the oxygen requirements of a bacterium.

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Thioglycollate - medium that serves as a reducing agent to remove traces of O2 by reducing it to water. Pink dye when oxidized and colorless when reduced

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Toxic oxygen: Normal molecular O2 that has been boosted into a higher energy state and is extremely reactive

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Singlet Oxygen

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Toxic oxygen: Formed in small amounts during normal respiration of microbes that use oxygen as the final e- acceptor. These radicals are toxic to cellular components. Toxicity is caused by their great instability, which leads them to steal an electron from a neighboring molecule, and this repeats itself.

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Superoxide free radicals or superoxide anions

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Toxic oxygen: Peroxide anions

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Produced as part of Hydrogen peroxide

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Toxic oxygen: Formed in the cytoplasm by ionizing radiation. Most reactive intermediate form of oxygen.

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Hydroxyl radical (OH.)

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Toxic oxygen: Cells contain several enzymes that aid when exposed to the peroxidation of lipids:

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superoxide dismutase, catalase, peroxidase, as well as cellular antioxidants which are able to scavenge oxygen free radicals and repair peroxidized lipids. Able to convert theses toxic oxygen radicals to something less damaging, like water.

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Chemical Requirements for growth: macromolecules

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Elements: CHNOPS Mineral ions: K+, calcium, sodium, magnesium, iron (Fe2+, Fe 3+), chlorine -mineral ions play an important role in enzymes and macromolecules

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Sources of Carbon: Heterotrophs

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Rely on other organisms to form the organic compounds (such as glucose, proteins, lipids) that they use as carbon sources. -Carbon source also typically supplies H and O -Carbon source supplies energy (glucose)

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Sources of Carbon: Autotrophs

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-Use inorganic CO2 as sole or principal carbon source -Carbon source does not supply energy -CO2 fixation

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Autotroph: Chemoauto(litho)trophs

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inorganic chemicals as energy (ammonia, nitrite, iron, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen).

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Autotroph: Phototrophs

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light as an energy source

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Sources of N

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required as proteins and nucleic acids. Acquired from Amino acids, NH4+, NO3-, also N2- fixation (cyanobacteria)

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Sources of S

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required for S-amino acids (cysteine and methionine), vitamins Acquired from inorganic sulfate (SO4^2-)

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Sources of P

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required in nucleic acids, phospholipids, ATP, proteins. Acquired from PO4^2-

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Micronutrients

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Trace Elements and Growth Factors

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Trace Elements

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-Inorganic transition metals (Mn, Fe, Mo, Cu, B, Co). -typically required in microgram quantities -serve structural/catalytic roles in specific enzymes -Key trace element: Fe for cellular respiration (redox center), or functions as cofactors in enzymes involved in e- transport rxns

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Growth Factors

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-Small organic compounds: amino acids, purines/pyrimidines, vitamins (enzyme cofactors) -required in varying concentrations -some organisms satisfy their own requirements for growth factors

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Physical requirements for growth:

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Temperature, pH, and water availability

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Effects of temperature on growth: temperature affects microbes in two opposing ways

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As temperature rises, the rate of enzymatic rxns increases, and growth becomes faster. However, above certain temperatures, proteins may become denatured or damaged.

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Minimum temperature

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Below this temperature, growth is not possible. Below this temperature membrane gelling; transport processes so slow that growth cannot occur

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Optimum Temperature

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Enzymatic reactions occurring at maximal possible rate

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Maximum temperature

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Above which growth is not possible. Above this temperature, proteins denature. Collapse of the cytoplasmic membrane; thermal lysis.

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Cardinal temperatures

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Min, optimum, and max temperatures. These characteristics vary dramatically between species

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cold loving microbes

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psychrophiles - low temperature optima O deg C to 11 deg C

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moderate-temperature loving microbes

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mesophiles - midrange temperature optima 9 to 48degC E.Coli

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High temperature optima

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thermophiles - live and grow at temperatures that exceed 50degC

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Very high temperature optima

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hyperthermophiles - exceeding 85-90degC

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pH requirements: 3 types of bacteria

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neutrophils, acidophiles, alkaliphiles

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neutrophils

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grow best in neutral environments pH >5.5 and

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acidophiles

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grow best in acidic conditions pH

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alkaliphiles

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prefer basic conditions pH of 8 or above. found in highly alkaline habitats such as soda lakes and high carbonate soils

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Osmotic Pressure

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is the pressure which needs to be applied to a solution to prevent the inward flow of water across a semipermeable membrane. High osmotic pressures have the effect of removing necessary water from a cell.

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Water availability is not only influenced by moist vs. dry conditions but also on the ____________

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concentration of solutes

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Osmotic pressure: Normal cell conditions

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isotonic solution: the solute concentration in the solution and in the cell

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When a microbe is in a solution whose concentration of solutes is higher than in the cell, the environment is __________ to the cell

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Hypertonic. This causes the cellular water to pass out through the plasma membrane to the high solute concentration.

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The osmotic loss of water causes ________ or _______ of the cells cytoplasm. This inhibits cell growth.

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plasmolysis, or shrinkage -uses to preserve food

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Halophiles

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-organisms that can live/thrive in high salt concentrations -Seawater contains 3% NaCl, microbes that inhabit these marine environments almost always have a NaCl requirement for growth

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Capable of growth in very salty environments

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extreme halophiles (15-30% NaCl for optimum growth)

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Microbes that can tolerate some level of dissolved solutes, but grow best in the absence of added solute or very limiting quantities

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Halotolerant

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Do not require high NaCl concentrations, but are able to grow at salt concentrations up to 2%, a concentration that inhibits the growth of many other organisms

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facultative halophiles

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requires oxygen to survive, but requires environments containing lower levels of oxygen than are present in the atmosphere

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Microaerophile

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Don’t use O2 for growth, but tolerate it. Exclusively anaerobic metabolism.

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Aerotolerant anaerobe

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Min, optimum, and max temperatures. These characteristics vary dramatically between species

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Cardinal temperatures

49
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Produced as part of Hydrogen peroxide

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Toxic oxygen: Peroxide anions

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