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Site-specific inhibitors?

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Carbon monoxide
cyanide
sodium azide
rotenone
antimycin A
amytal

  • any compound that stops electron transport will stop breathing
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Phosphorylation inhibitor?

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Oligomycin
- Electron transport can be stopped by inhibiting ATP synthesis (blocking the proton channel)

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Uncouplers?

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DNP and FCCP
- breaking the connection between ATP synthesis and electron transport

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How is the ETC electron flow effected by oligomycin

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  • not stopped
    -PMF can be uncoupled from ATP synthesis by diversion to alternative integral membrane proteins
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What do hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen cyanide do

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-binding and inhibiting complex IV and electron flow
-preventing O2 reduction and respiration

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Aerobic respiration steps?

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Glucose –> 2 pyruvate (with oxygen)–> 36 ATP
- a lot produced in oxidative phosphorylation

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Fermentation steps?

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Glucose –> 2 pyruvate (without oxygen)–> 2 ATP

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Aerobic vs Anaerobic respiration?

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Aerobic
- requires O2
- complete substrate oxidation
- water formed as the end product

Anaerobic
- never requires O2
- Incomplete substrate oxidation
- water is not formed

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Anaerobic Respiration (Denitrification) steps

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NO3 –(nitrate reductase–> NO2 –(nitrite reductase)–> NO –(NO reductase)–> N20 –(N2O reductase)–> N2

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Subunits of Nitrate Reductase?

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alpha, beta, 2 gamma sheets

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Nitrate reductase function?

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gamma transfers electrons to quinol to Fe-S
alpha subunit catalyzes reduction of NO3- to NO2-

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How is denitrification regulated?

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  • inhibited by O2 presence
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What is the purpose of sulfate-reducing bacteria?

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H2 or organic compounds usually serve as electron donors

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Assimilatory NO3 reduction

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If nitrogen is used for a new biomass

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Dissimilatory NO3 reduction

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if N2 gas is released

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How to cells assimiliate N?

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What is an ammoxosome?

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  • found in plantomyces bacteria
  • structure that enabled PMF generation in the oceans
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Nitrogen Fixation

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  • energetically demanding
  • 16 ATP produced for every N2 reduced
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Nitrogen fixation enzyme and function

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Nitrogenase fixes N2 to ammonia
inactivated by O2

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Ammonification

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breaking down organic matter such as dead animals and plants and wastes like urea

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Ammonification enzyme and funtion

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Urease hydrolyzes urea to CO2 and ammonia

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Nitrification performs what kind of respiration?

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Aerobic respiration
- chemolithoautotrophic metabolism using NH3 for electrons for CO2 fixation

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How is ammonia removal (nitrification) impacted by the environment?

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  1. shocks (cold or hot spells)
  2. Toxicity (“slug” toxin from upstream)
  3. Solid loss (large rain event that can wash them out)
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Denitrification

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Progressive reduction of nitrate to N2 or N20
anaerobic respiration
dissimilatory

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Strategies to prevent denitrification?
1. Temporal separation 2. High respiratory rate 3. Spatial Separation 4. Cellular Specialization
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Aromatic Amino Acids
benzene ring derived from shikimate from condensation of PEP + Erythrose 4 phosphate
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What is the key enzyme for aromatic AA synthesis?
EPSP synthase
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Glyphosate function
- inhibits EPSP synthase - inhbiting the production of aromatic amino acids
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Nitrogen donor for most amino acids?
Glutamate
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Nitrogen donor for tryptophan, Histidine, Asparagine, and nucleotides?
GlutamINE
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Phosphoglycerate AA family
- 3 phosphoglycerate converted to serine then glycine to cysteine
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Pyruvate AA family
- pyruvate transaminated to form alanine - the enzyme is ALT (alanine amino transferase) - important for catabolism of non- essential amino acids
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Alpha-ketoglutarate AA family
Proline, Glutamate, Glutamine, Hisidine, Argenine
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Glutamate dehydrogenase
converts alpha ketoglutarate and NH4 to glutamate - used to transaminate and form various AA - reversible enzyme
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Transaminases
glutamate helps with the addition of amino group skeletons to synthesize most AA - pyruvate: alanine, valine, leucine - oxaloacetate to aspartate
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Aspartate is used for the synthesis of
threonine methionine lysine
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What is heme made of?
protoporporphoryn IX ring and iron
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Leghemoglobin
A conjugated protein that combines apoprotein with heme prosthetic group to form a functional protein - heme prosthetic group synthesized by rhizobium
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How is heme related to central metabolism?
synthesized by succinyl CoA
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What does ALA synthase do?
combines succinyl CoA and glycine to make ALA - first enzyme in the process of making heme
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Ferrochelatase function
Adding central iron to protoporphyrin IX to form heme
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What enzyme links carb and lipid metabolism?
glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase
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Phases of lipid biosynthesis
1. initiation - formation of butyryl-ACP - catalyzed by malonyl- COA:ACP transacylase 2. elongation 3. termination
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what enzyme is used in neutral lipid biosynthesis
DGAT - catalyzes the formation of triglycerides from diacylglycerol and acyl CoA
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Nucleotide biosynthesis pathways
1. Salvage pathway Activated ribose+ base 2. devnovo pathway activated ribose+ amino acids+ ATP+ CO2
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Mechanism of action of sulfa drugs
- inhibits bacterial folate synthesis -folate needed for nucleic acid production so without it no DNA copied
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Cons of sulfa drugs
- bacteriostatic instead of bactericidal - allergic reactions comon - not effective against all infections - resistance happens fast in microbes by plasmid or spontaneous mutation
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Peptidoglycan structure
sugar component made of alternating residues of beta-1,4 linked NAG and NAM -NAM has short amino acid chain attached
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What is the NAG/ NAM monomer?
Fructose 6-phosphate used to make activated monomers (UDP-NAG and UDP -NAM) - UDP is a nucleoside diphosphate ester if pyrophosphoric acid with the nucleoside uridine
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How is the NAG and NAM monomer made
- glutamine donates amino group to fructose 6-phosphate forming glucosamine-6-phosphate - acetyl group is then transferred from acetyl CoA to amino group of glucosamine-6-phosphate making N- acetyl-glucosamine-6-phosphate - NAG-6-phosphate isomerized to NAG-1- phosphate - monophosphate site bunds to UTP - UTP-NAG converted to UTP-NAM -NADPH reduced to form NAM - peptides are attached to NAM only
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MurG function?
- enzyme that makes lipid II by adding NGM to the NAM-peptide
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What is the function of transglycosylase?
- catalyzes the polymerization step of the cell-wall biosynthesis
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What part of the cell wall does penicillin target?
transpeptidase
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What does transpeptidase do?
crosslinking peptides, solidifying cell wall
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What is the central dogma?
DNA --(translation)--> RNA --(transcription)--> Protein
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How do we overcome beta-lactam resistance?
beta- lactam antibiotics are given with beta lactamase inhibitors
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Explain how drug resistance is formed via conjugation
- conjugated pili give plasmid from one bacteria to the next
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Explain how drug resistance is formed via transformation
- put holes in the cell wall - introduce plasmid so it can be absorbed - close holes and select bacteria with new plasmid
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Topoisomerase
uncoils DNA to prepare for replication fork
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Topoisomerase
uncoils DNA to prepare for replication fork
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Helicase
separating strands by breaking H bonds
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DNA polymerase
catalyzes the correct base pairing and assembly of the complementary strand - requires primer
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Primase
adding short complementary bp to form a primer
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What does a DNTP do?
gives energy to the new strand by forming a phosphodiester bond
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DNA Pol IV
- an error-prone DNA repair system increasing the genetic diversity to make more mutants
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What is a sigma factor?
direct gene expression in response to environmental conditions
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