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Review Slides I- 10/16/21 Flashcards

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Difference between prokaryotes and Eukaryotes (4)

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Prokaryotes

  • No nuclear membrane
  • No membrane bound organelles
  • No endocytosis (have cell wall)
  • Much smaller
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Bacillus

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Rod shaped

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Cocci

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Round

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Gram positive color

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Purple

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Gram negative color

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Pink

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Gram positive cell wall structure

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Thick peptidoglycan covering with lipoteichoic acid

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Gram negative bacteria cell wall

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Thin peptidoglycan layer with asymmetric outer membrane with lipopolysaccharide, less permeable

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Example of endotoxin

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Lipopolysaccharide, also superantigen

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Transpeptidase

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Enzyme responsible for linking D-Ala and L-Lys during peptidoglycan cross linking

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Penicillin structure

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Mimics D-Ala D-ala

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Penicillin mechanism of action

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Inhibits transpeptidase during bacterial growth, causes cell lysis

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Bacterial growth curve stages (4)

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  1. Lag
  2. Exponential
  3. Stationary
  4. Death
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What happens in Exponential stage (4)

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  • Growth
  • Synthesis of precursors
  • Polymerize macromolecules
  • Produce ATP, reducing power
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What happens in stationary stage (7)

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  • Motility/Chemotaxis
  • Secretion of degradative enzymes
  • Transport of secondary nutrients
  • Intracellular catabolic pathways
  • Genetic competence
  • Sporulation
  • Antibiotic and toxin production
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Two forms of RNA pol

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Holoenzyme and core enzyme

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Holoenzyme

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Binds at the promotor, includes a2,B, B’, sigma

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Core enzyme

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Doing the transcription, Includes a2, B, B’

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Transcription initiation

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Sigma subunit leaves, core enzyme continues on

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Where positive regulators bind

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Upstream of promotor, aids RNA poly in binding to the DNA/transcribing

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Repressor mechanism

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Binds to the promotor, blocks RNA poly from binding

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Promotor

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Where RNA pol binds, -10 to -35 region

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Pathogenicity Locus (PaLoc)

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Organization of toxin genes and their regulatory elements, Tcd locus in C. Diff

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Inactive CodY

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In the absence of nutrients (isoleucine), it is inactive and can’t bind to the promotor region of tcdR to inhibit its transcription

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Genes of the tcd PaLoc

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TcdR (sigma factor), tcdB (Toxin), tcdE (holin), tcdA (toxin), tcdC (sigma factor)

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TcdR
Sigma factor for the whole PaLoc, increases transcription
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TcdB
Toxin
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TcdE
Holin, allows the toxin to escape bacteria
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TcdA
Toxin
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TcdC
Anti sigma factor, in the presence of nutrients, it binds any existing tcdR protein and inhibits transcription
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Active CodY
Active when bound to Isoleucine (nutrient rich environment) binds to the promotor of tcdR and inhibits transcription
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Toxin
A protein that damages eukaryotic cells
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Exotoxins
Most classical toxins
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Organization of C. Difficile toxin
C terminal receptor binding carb region, middle hydrophobic region, cysteine protease domain (self cleavage), N terminal enzymatically active domain
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How C. difficile toxin gets into the cell
Taken into early endosome after carb recognition, acid environment causes structural change which threads through endosome, self cleavage
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Mechanism of enzymatically active domain of C. Diff
UDP-glycosylation of those proteins (G proteins)
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Clostridium botulinum
Causes botulism, obligate anaerobic, gram-positive spore forming bacillus
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Botulism hallmarks
Flaccid paralysis, intoxication (only take in toxin), rare, antibodies against toxin can alleviate symptoms
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A-B toxin
B subunit recognizes the target cell and triggers RME, mediates membrane insertion A subunit is enzymatically active, translocated by the B subunit
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Botulism mechanism of action
A protease that prevents acetylcholine release in the peripheral nervous system, cleaves proteins involved in synaptic vesicles fusion, results in flaccid paralysis
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Clostridium tetani
Causes tetanus, spore forming gram positive obligate anaerobe
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Tetanus hallmarks
Spores of C. Tetani in soil can enter wound, germinate, and produce toxin - Trismus and spastic paralysis
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Tetanus toxin mechanism of action
A-B toxin that targets the CNS, prevents the release of inhibitory neurotransmitters (GABA) that causes spastic paralysis
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Protein target of both tetanus and botulism
Synaptobrevin
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Targets of only botulism
SNAP-25 and syntaxin
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Cholera hallmarks
Vibrio cholarae, gram negative, comma-shaped, facultative anaerobe Noninvasive, all symptoms are due to a single exotoxin, cholera toxin
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Cholera toxin properties
A1-B5 stoichimetry (A is sitting in a donut hole)
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Cholera toxin mechanism of action
ADP ribosylates the G protein critical to fluid balance, locking it “on”, increases secretion of Cl-, decreases Na+ absorption, leads to mass water secretion
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Colonized sites (6)
- Nares - Oral cavity - Skin - Small intestine - Proximal colon - distal colon
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Maybe colonized sites
Stomach
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Not colonized sites
CNS/spinal fluid | Blood
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Why do we doubt studies with new sites?
- Could be experimental contamination | - Could be dead/killed bacteria
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How many genes do we carry?
Human- 22,000 bacteria- 3,300,000 Over 99% bacteria (Same amount of cells)
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Functions of our symbiotic gut microbiome (3)
- Metabolic - Immune and structural - Protective
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Metabolic functions of microbiome
- Synthesize vitamins (vitamin K) - Harvest maximum energy through digestion (fermentation of complex polysaccharides) - Controls epithelial differentiation and proliferation
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Immune and structural functions of microbiome (4)
- Immuno system development and modulation - Induction of IgA antibodies - Enhancement of intestinal tight junctions - Prevention of intestinal barrier dysfunction
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Protective functions of gut microbiome (3)
- Competition for niche - Competition for nutrients - Production of antimicrobial factors
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Factors that promote symbiosis (4)
- Exercise - healthy diet - Exposure to diverse microbes - breast fed
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Factors that promote dysbiosis (5)
- Formula fed - Over sanitized environment - Poor diet - sedentary lifestyle - Antibiotics
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Point at which microbiome is fixed
~3 years (1000 days) | After that, you can only change the proportions or destroy with abx, can’t introduce new species
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FGerm free mouse study on obesity
From discordant (one obese one thin) man twins, germ free mice receive gut microbiome, mouse that received thin twin stayed thin, mouse that got fat twin microbiome got fat, all things else the same

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