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Average size of a bacterium?

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1 uM

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List a few unique cellular features of Bacteria?

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Lack of nucleus and other membranes organelles
DS circular DNA
Smaller Ribosomes (70S)
Plasmids

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In gram staining, what colors do positive and negative turn?

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Purple = Positive
Red = Negative
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What two criteria are primarily used for classification?

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Size/shape

Gram +/-

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What do you do in a gram stain?

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Smear, Heat fixation, crystal violet + iodine, wash, safranin

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What makes a gram + purple?

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Stain gets trapped in the thick, cross-linked peptidoglycan layer.

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What stain you yo use for mycobacterium?

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Acid-Fast Staining

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How (what lab technique) would you use to assess bacterial genetics? When would this be important?

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PCR

Esp. Important for slow growing strands

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The lack of a bacterial nuclear membrane allows for…

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Coupled Transcription and Translation

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Location of DNA in the bacterial cell?

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the nucleoid and plasmids

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Size of two subunits and full ribosome complex?

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30S + 50S = 70S

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With the exception of myco, what do bacterial cell membranes lack?

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Steroids

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Three important roles of the bacterial lipid bilayer?

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Electron Transport/Energy Production
Pumps present to maintain internal environment
Lined internall with actins that determine shape/division

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Describe a G+ cell wall

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Thick, multilayered
Mostly Peptidoglycan
Teichoic Acids Make covalent linkages and anchor to membrane

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What does lysozyme do to fight bacteria?

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Cleaves glycan backbone of peptidoglycan

Death by loss of osmotic control

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Are peptidoglycan and techoic acid still present in gram negs?

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A little PG

No TA

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What parts of PG binds to provide crosslinkage?

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D-Ala to Lys

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Two repeating subunits in PG?

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NAG and N-Acetylmuranic Acid

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Importance of the periplasmic space in gram negatives?

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Breakdown molecules (proteases, phosphotases, lipases)
Many lytic virulence factors
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Type ___ virulence factors are a major virulence factor

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III

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Describe the outer membrane of a gram negative.

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Inside normal, outside LPS

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LPS is also known as ______. When released it triggers a _______.

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Endotoxin

Schwartzman Rxn

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What is LPS without its O antigen?

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LOS (lipooligosaccharide)

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What are the transmembrane proteins called? What gets through them?

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Porins.

Materials under 700 Da

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Role of lipoproteins in G- bacteria?
Hold outer membrane onto the bacteria
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How is LPS crosslinked?
Mg and Ca linkages between phosphates
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What is a bacterial capsule?
A loos polysaccharide or protein layer | "Glycocalyx"
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Why do we can about bacterial capsules?
Poorly Antigenic Anti-phagocytotic Increase Adherance -- Biofilms in quorum
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What are flagella?
Ropelike cellular propellers made of heavily coiled flagellin. Driven by ATP motor and chemotactic signals
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What are fimbriae?
Hair-like projections outside the cell made of Pilin.
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Why do we care about fimbriae?
They increase adherance, and may have specific binding | Also, encompass the F pili
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How is mycoplasma an exception to the rule?
Steals host steroids
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Role of bactoprenol?
Conveyor belt for precursors to the cell surface | There they can be activated with high energy bonds
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Describe the process of peptidoglycan synthesis.
Precursors made in cell UDP-MurNAC attached to Bactroprenol via UMP release GlcNAC is added Translocation to the outside of the cell Transglycosylases use the pyrophosphate to attach the GlcNAC-MurNAC to the peptidoglycan chain Bactoprenol is recycled
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What antibiotic works by blocking bactoprenol recycling?
Bacitracin
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What reaction frovides peptide cross-linkage for developing LPS?
Transpeptidation from 3rd free amino and D alanine in the 4th position of the other peptide
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Other name for transpeptidases invovled in LPS formation?
Penicillin-binding proteins | Because targeted by penicillin and other beta lactams
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How does vancomycin work?
Blocks D-Ala D-Ala site
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Three primary components of LPS?
Lipid A Core Polysacharide O Antigen
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What is Lipid A? What does it do?
Glucosamine Disacharide Backbone Endotoxin Activity, FA Anchor in Outer Mem
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What is Core polysaccharide?
Branched, 9-12 sugars | 2-keto-3-deoxy-octenoate (KDO)
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What is an O Antigen?
50-100 sach. units
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What is a septum?
A bacterial cross wall generated in the process of cell division
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Difference between streptococci and staphylococci cell division?
Strep divid at 180 degrees -- Make chains | Staph divide at 90 degrees -- form bundles
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How are chains/cluters of bacteria formed?
Incomplete clevage.
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Spores are ______ gram negative.
NEVER
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Describe the protein coat of a spore.
Inner Mem + 2x Peptidoglycan + outer kertain-like protein coat
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What is required for a spore to germinate?
H2O and Trigger Nutrients
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How do bacteria transfer genes between them?
F Pilus
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Shape of vibrio?
Comma
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Shape of spirochete?
Spring
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Shape of Spirillum?
Lazy S
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Shape of Coccus?
Round
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How might relatedness of two bacterial strands be assessed?
Biochemical tests of metabolically active DNA optical mapping Serotyping Direct Gene Comparisons (Virochip)
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How are DNA optical maps made?
Restriction endonucleases cut DNA at different sequences then maps are made that show the points they come back together
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Difference between USA 300 and USA800
300 -- community acquired, commonly abx resistant with toxin | 800 -- Hospital resistant, less significant
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What does an H antigen correspond with?
Flagellar Antigens
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What does an O antigen correspond with?
Outer Membrane
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What does a K antigen correspond with?
Capsule
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Cell shape of mycoplasma?
Highly pleomorphic
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Why are mycoplasma obligate parasites?
They require cholesterol from eukaryotic cell hosts
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What shape do fusiform bacteria maintain?
Spindle
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Why do archaea tend to be ignored in medical microbiology?
No known diseases assiciated
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How do archaea maintain stability in high temperatures?
Monolayer of lipids instead of a bilayer
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How do bacteria usually divide?
Binary fission
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Three examples of membrane invaginations?
Mesosomes Phycobilisomes Chromatophores
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What are cytoplasmic somal bodies?
Storage Organelles
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What are inclusion bodies?
Insoluble polymers
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What are three types of inclusion bodies?
poly-beta-OH butyrate, starch, glycogen (Carbon) Sulfur (sink for sulfur oxidizers) Polyphosphate granules
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What are enzymatic reaction centers?
Locations of DNA, RNA, and Protein localization
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What are plectonemes?
DNA supercoils that are a part of colocating genes and proteins that work together
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How do materials get through the bacterial plasma membrane?
Rocker-Switch Mechanism -- External and internal binding sites, bottleneck that is sometimes a selectivity filter
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How do bacteria perform endocytosis.
They don't.
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Secretory systems that have a needle complex?
3, 4, 6
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How are GlcNAc and MurNAc linked?
beta 1-4 glycocidic bond
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As PG breaks down, what activated the immune response?
GlcNAc-MurNAc disaccharide
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What is a limit of bacitracin activity?
It will only kill growing cells
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How is the LPS core generated?
Added as monosaccharide units to Lipid A on the cytosolic side, then flipped to the outside Repeat unit is synthesized by cytoplasm, carried to peri by bactoprenol, added to core transfer to OM by periplasm-bridging proteins
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Significance to sialic acid in immune response?
Causes the capsule to mimic self-antigen
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Significance of pilin in immune response?
Bacteria can switch pilin when detected by the immune system
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Difference between flagella and eukaryotes and prokaryotes?
Euk -- Back and Forth | Pro -- Propeller
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What causes the flagella to spin?
Proton gradient moving through the rotor (Mot A/B proteins)
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What is the C ring?
A switch that allows rotation to change direction CCW -- Swim CW -- Tumble
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How does chemotaxis work?
Attractant binds to MCP which blocks CHEA activity CHE A can no longer trigger CHE Y CHE Y can't cause tumble Keep swimming to attractant Methylation of alpha helix in MCP undoes attractant activity
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Significance of S-layers?
Single crystalline protein that surrounds some cells Molecular Sieve Protects from complement

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