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Term
Methaobacterium
Definition
• Eat hydrogen
Term
Methanosarcina
Definition
• Acidotrophic methanogen
Term
Methanogens
Definition
• Strict anerobes: NO OXYGEN
• Take Co2 to methane
• Lives in guts of animals
• Can consume acetane(fermenataion product)
Co enzymes and cofactors involved
• All begin with “methano”
Term
Natronobacterium
Definition
• High pH…tolerate around 12pH
• Uses sodium ion instead of proton ions to prevent them from being neutralized by environment.
• Can also pump potassium
• Can’t use ATP to pump water because it would diffuse back up
Term
Peter Mitchell
Definition
• Theory based on
• Proton motile force associated with mitochondria
Term
Halobacterium
Definition
• Can exist as chemoorganotrophs can use some oxygen
• Primary pigment-bacteria radoption like found in retina
• Has cronoid as assery pigments or protection
• Has a membrane and ATPase
• Changes shape when hit by certain photons and pumps proton on exterior of membrane.
• Conserves energy from light, has no chlorophyll. “really is photosynthetic”
Term
Archea
Definition
• Many are extremaphile
• Very cold places or very hot places
• Can live in extreme salt environment and extreme pH.
• PCR extracted from extremophiles
• Enter Duteruff pathway
• Have kreb cycle
• ETS- a, b, c, type cytochrome system
• Many hydrogen oxidizing
• Can do mathanogenesis
• Lack if chlorophyll based synthesis
Term
Prokaryotes
Definition
• DNA closed in circular form
• Histone proteins present
• Membrane enclosed present
• Caranic acid present---wall
• Ester linked membrane
• 70s ribosome
Term
Flavobacterium
Definition
• Not anerobic
• Brightly colored organism
• Pigmented rods
Term
Carl Wose
Definition
• Three domains of life based on 70s
Term
Bacteroides
Definition
• Prevalent organism in human gut
• Anerobes
• Over 10 to the 10th per gram of human feces
• People who eat meat have higher ratios of bacteris
• Can cause abdominal infection…gunshot, stab wounds
Term
Gemmata
Definition
• Lithotroph
• Lives in spring water, well water…very little organic carbon
Term
Planctomyces
Definition
• Has different type of cell wall does not make peptidolglycan
• Has wall made of protein---S layer
• Has a nucleus
Term
Clyamedia
Definition
• Intracellular parasite
• Can make its own protein---translate
• Steals ATP from the host
• Most prevalent bacteria STD
• Some think plaque formed by disease contribute to heart attack
Term
Procloron
Definition
• Enbionicsymbotic theory---evolved from prokaryotes.
• Lot in common with chloroplast
• Have chloraphill A and B
• Oxygenc photosynthesis
Term
Oscillatoria
Definition
• Fix nitrogen in dark
• Protects itself from oxygen-conformational protection
Term
Anaebeana
Definition
• Heterocysts
• Glows—refractile
• Inside cell fix nitrogen
• Oxygenic phototroph
• Does not has photosystem 2 in cell---no oxygen generated in cell
• Has wall to block diffusion of oxygen in cell
Term
Cyanobacteria
Definition
• Blue green algae
• Prokaryotes oxygenic photosynthesis
• Has chlorhphyll
• Distinct morphological appearance
Term
Consortia
Definition
• Symbiotic two member association formed by the green sulfur bacteria with a chemoorgananotrophic bacteria
o Both anerobes
o Sulfate reduced to sulfur
Term
Chlorobium
Definition
• Green sulfur bacteria
• Citric acid cycle
• Phototrophic
• Anaerobe
• Can oxidize bacteria
• Has chlorosomes (harvest light---major structure, not totally enclosed)
Term
Cytophage
Definition
• Found in the soil
• Has gliding motility- not flagellum
• Can eat cellulose
• Isolates organism take bacteria cell, blow it up and over lay.
Term
Flavobacterium
Definition
• Associated with infant meningitis
• Not anaerobic “brightly colored”
Term
Bacteroids
Definition
• Anerobes- found in the human gut
• Proteolithic
• Present in human feces
Term
Propionic acid bacteria
Definition
• Makes proponic acid
• it give Swiss cheese its flavor.
• Unique fermentation
Term
Coryrebacterium
Definition
• Club shaped
• Causes diphtheria
Term
streptomyces
Definition
• Large genus
• Most antibotics are derived from streptomyces---common in soil
• Excrete substrate from outside the cell---use lots of energy
• Kills neighbor to get their food
• Powdery appearance to the plate
• Produce spores that can with stand dry…not endospores
• Uses poison to get food from other organisms
Term
mycobacterium
Definition
• grows slowly-pathogenic
• acid fast staining
• has an envelop
• has non-polar characteristic to cell
• some dieaseses it causes are long lasting. Takes years for people to show symptons.
• Acid-fast staining due to mycolic acid
• Hydrophobic gut of cell does not decolorize
• Causes leopercy and TB
Term
Peter Mitchell
Definition
• figure out oxidation phosphorlation
Term
Desulfotumacillim
Definition
• produces endospores
• causes stinkers
Term
Desulforbrio
Definition
• uses lots of hydrogen
• non acetate
Term
Gallionella
Definition
• made of ferrous iron
• bean shaped
• clogs pipes but gets something out of it????
• Lithotroph: value not good, iron oxidation at neutral pH---very little ∆G exchanged.
• Organism not grown in pure culture.
Term
Stigmatella
Definition
• gliding myxobacteria
• fruiting budding
• has the largest genome of prokaryotes-genome in range of yeast
Term
Caulobacter
Definition
• stalk bacteria
• grows in “clean water”
• grown in water cartilage---likes activated carbon?????
Term
Sphaerotilus
Definition
• contribute to bulking-important problem in sewage treatment (clog pipes)
• causes “sewage fungus” filaments slime found on rocks (prokaryote≠fungus)
• oxidizes Fe+3
• causes corrosion and clogging
Term
Sheathed proteobacteria
Definition
• cells in hallow sheath
• oxidizes metalse
• filamentous
Term
Campylobacter
Definition
• causes gastritis_ulcers
• most common cause of undiagnosed dirarrhea
• microaerophilic
• causes enteritis (diarrhea)
• gram (-) spirilla
• found in poultry (causes food poisoning)
• spontaneous abortion
Term
Magnetospirillum
Definition
• Freshwater microaerophile: one of the first discovered
• resorts to aerotaxis, in order to remain in favourable O2 concentration conditions
Term
Sprilla (sprillum)
Definition
• Spiral shaped
• Habitat mainly freshwater
• Motile by polar flagella
• Uses other magnetosomes???
• Aerobic
• Eats other gram (-) spiral shaped bacteria…bores through the outer membrane and digest then reproduces in the periplasma
• Gram negative
• Most not pathogenic
Term
Wolbachia
Definition
• Very little independent metabolism
• Can change the sex of insects
• Can transfer host genes
• Lives only in cells of host-usually insects
Term
Rickettsias
Definition
• Gram negative
• All parasitic (interacellular) obligate intracellular
• All causes diseases (i.e. Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus)
• Very little metabolism on its own
• Has functional ATP system
• Makes proteins
Term
Vibrio
Definition
• Photobacterium
• Will light up
• Gram negative bent rods
• Can cause cholera
• Oxidase positive
• Fermentative metabolism
• Transmitted via water
Term
Chromobacterium
Definition
• Gram (-) rod
• Purple pigment (C. Vivaceurm)
• Rarely causes infection, but when it does it is fatal
• Pus forming-purple ooze
• Contacted in spring water and drinking water.
Term
Neisseria
Definition
• Gram negative cocci
• Most gram negative are rods but this organism is a cocci
• Causes gonera and meningitis
Term
Azotobacter
Definition
• fixes nitrogen: requires ATP, Fd (electronegative reducing agent)
• free living in soil and in water.
• Has a protection mechanism slime layer: impedes diffusion of O2; ETS consuming O2 to H2O
• Fastest rate of respiration than any known organism
Term
Acetobacter
Definition
• used in making vinegar from ethanol
• aerobic: won’t contaminate wine without oxygen
• ethnolacetate (incomplete respiration)
• complete citric acid cycle.
Term
Zymomonas
Definition
• Ferments sugar to alchol
• “spiddle beer”
Term
Pseudomonads
Definition
• page 368
• can live off carbon monoxide as electron donor and carbon source.
• Enter-Dandruff pathway
• Gram (-)
• Has cytochrome (cytochrome C oxidase)
• Oxidase (+)
• Do not ferment
• Breaks down pesticide and hydrocarbons
• P. aeruginosa: pathogenic; hard to kill organism found in hospitals.
Term
Ralstonia
Definition
• page 363
• has 2 hydrogenase
o generation of proton motor force and ATP production
o reduction of NAD reducing potential
o both oxidize hydrogen using oxygen as electron acceptor
Term
Thioplaca
Definition
• page 368
• can live anaerobic with nitrate as electron donor
Term
begiotia
Definition
• nuterualphile
• lives in flowing water environment and certain gradients
• hydrogen sulfide kills rice plants pumps oxygen down to it’s roots and takes advantage. Moves hydrogen sulfide from the roots. Help detoxify ribosphere (environment around the root of plants)
Term
Acidiphille
Definition
• can live at pH below 0. makes sulfuric acid problem industrially
• makes sulfuric acid in pipes
• industrial problem
• can cause sewage pipes to break
• can live in concentration of sulfuric acid of 1 mol.
Term
Winogradsky
Definition
• Worked with lithotrophs; grown in inorganic solution; turns over lots of substrate
Term
Ammonia monoxygenic
Definition
• Key enzyme in NH3 oxidation. Oxidaizes NH3
Term
Nitrosomanos
Definition
• Oxidize ammonia
Term
Nitrifying Bacteria
Definition
• Chemolithotrophsderive energy from oxidative ammonia
• Does nitrie oxidation
• Nitrite oxidation very little energy in the reaction
Term
Purple non-surfur bacteria
Definition
• Rhodo bro.
• Anaerobic
• Can ferment in the dark or aerobic respirate carbs or hydrogen
• Photohertotrophs
• Most nutritionally diverse
• Can’t uses water as electron donor do not make oxygen
Term
Proponic acid bacteria
Definition
• Makes proponic acid
• Gives swiss cheese its flavor
• No ETS
Term
Coryrebacterium
Definition
• Cubed shaped
• Caused diphtheria
Term
Spiroplasma
Definition
• Parasitic in plants(plants that suck on insects)/insects
• Helical shaped
• Contain gene that appears that appears to come from both insects and plants
Term
Mycoplasma
Definition
• No cell wall
• Low G-C
• Related to gram positive
• Small genome
• Obligate intercellular lives outside the cell, osmotically protected environment
Term
Clostridum
Definition
• Fermentation
• Used to make fuel
Term
Thiobacillus
Definition
ferrous ion sulfur oxidizing
Term
C. Botulinum
Definition
• Most ponent biological poisoning
• Can kill over 1 million rats
• Causes Tecnus neuro-toxin
Term
Clostridum
Definition
• Found in soil
• Makes endospores
• Anerobe
• Spoils food
• Can ferment
Term
Bacillus
Definition
• Causes eye infections
• Forms endospores
• Very few in environment found in soil
• Anthrax
• Herded animal’s disease, but people can contract.
• Makes coccus
• Used as a pesticide in plants
• Insect disease
Term
Listeria
Definition
• Gram positive
• Grows well in the refrigerator
• “not nice lactobacillus relative”
• Cause of bad meat
• Can contaminate dairy products
• Can cause spontaneous abortion in preganant women because it can cross the placenta barrier
• Reason why we pasteurize cheese
Term
Micrococcus
Definition
• Strict aerobic
• “devil bug” found in air
• Functional ETS
• Oxidase positive and catylase positive
• Heterofermentative tactic acid
Term
Lactobacillus
Definition
• ferments lactic acid
• “good organism” can prevent intestinal disease and vaginal yeast infection
• Used to make buttermilk
• Homofermentativemake cheese yogurt and other dairy products
• Probiotics: antimicrobial properties
• Inhibits lost of infections
Term
Staphylococcus
Definition
• Aerobic
• Catalase positive
• Growth by fermentation
• No motility
• Found on skin or mucous membrane
• Yellow pigment
• Associated with boils, pimples and etc.
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