Microbe

Michele Swanson, Gemma Reguera, Moselio Schaechter, ... [et. al.]

2nd ed.

Washington, DC : ASM Press, cop. 2016

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TABLE 10.3 Large mutational changes: rearrangements and macrolesions

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Magnetic bacteria and their magnetosomes have some industrial uses for making gadgets that depend on magnetism.

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The nongrowth aspects of metabolism contribute to such vital cellular activities as maintenance of intracellular metabolite pools and turgor, repair of cellular structures, secretion, motility, and other responses to environmental stress. We call these activities maintenance metabolism.

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TABLE 12.1 Some major bacterial adaptations to the environment

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The Zetaproteobacteria include single species, the iron-oxidizer Mariprofundus ferroxydans.

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Assembled on one pole of bacterial cells are arrays of chemoreceptors called methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs) (Fig. 12.12).

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In addition to familiar illnesses, like diarrhea caused by foodborne Salmonella typhimurium or rabies acquired from the bite of an infected bat, alarming new diseases emerge from animal reservoirs, such as the 2012 outbreak of the severe respiratory illness Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

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Interspecies Metabolite Transfer Syntrophic interactions allow microbes to carry out the problematic task of degrading organic matter (polysaccharides, proteins, and lipids) under anaerobic conditions to return the carbon back to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄) (Fig. 21.13).

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Metagenomics accomplishes just that. By going literally "beyond the genome", metagenomics attempts to retrieve DNA sequences from all the genomes represented in a microbial community (the metagenome).

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Metagenomics accomplishes just that. By going literally "beyond the genome", metagenomics attempts to retrieve DNA sequences from all the genomes represented in a microbial community (the metagenome).

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To bypass this limitation, microbial ecologists can profile all the proteins present in a microbial community (the metaproteome).

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The two methods, called metaproteomics and metabolomics, respectively (Fig. 19.9), profile the activities of microbial communities with an unprecedented level of detail.

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As we will explain later, approaches to sequence the total RNA of the community (the metatranscriptome) can also complement metagenomic studies to enhance the predictive value of the data retrieved.

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Metatranscriptomics data provide valuable taxonomic and functional information about the microbial community, allowing the researcher to profile the community structure, function, and diversity simultaneously.

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The bacterium (S-organism, for lack of a better name) ferments ethanol to acetate and hydrogen but only if the hydrogen is removed by the archaeon Methanobacterium bryantii, which uses it to make methane.

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The most prominent one is Methanobrevibacter smithii, which carries many more genes of methanogenesis in its genome than non-gut methanogens.

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Collectively, this set of proteins is known as the mismatch repair system. The E. coli system, called methyl-directed mismatch-repair, contains proteins that (i) recognize the mismatch, (ii) excise the misincorporated base and its surrounding DNA, and (iii) fill the gap with newly synthesized DNA (Fig. 8.8).

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Early studies about the cosmopolitan nature of microbes set the foundation of a new field in microbial ecology, so-called microbial biogeography, which studies the distribution of microbes in space, time, and across the environmental gradients.

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Most of these sequences correspond to not-yet-cultivated microbes, the so-called "microbial dark matter".

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The tracks are composed of long cylinders of assembled tubulin that radiate from an anchor adjacent to the nucleus (aptly named the microtubule organizing center) and extend toward the cell periphery.

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In addition to familiar illnesses, like diarrhea caused by foodborne Salmonella typhimurium or rabies acquired from the bite of an infected bat, alarming new diseases emerge from animal reservoirs, such as the 2012 outbreak of the severe respiratory illness Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).

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Together, the molecular (DNA footprints) and the geological (mineral footprints) records have allowed scientists to reconstruct chapters of the history of microbes on Earth with outstanding precision.

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The formation of flagella, then, is likely the result of a modular rearrangement, the borrowing and joining of preexisting parts.

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The term protist may bring to mind paramecia, amebas, or mosquito-borne parasites that cause malaria or sleeping sickness.

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Of course, treating MRSA USA300 infections is complicated by their resistance to multiple xbetax-lactam and macrolide antibiotics.

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Indeed, Mu has been called "a transposon masquerading as a phage."

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Murein synthesis inhibitors [TABLE 21.2]

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Three mutator proteins (Mut), called MutS, MutL, and MutH, take care of much of the repair.

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Three mutator proteins (Mut), called MutS, MutL, and MutH, take care of much of the repair.

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Remarkably, although a variety of intracellular microbes are propelled by actin tails, including Shigella flexnerii, Rickettsia riskettsii, Burkholderia pseudomallei, and Mycobacterium marinum, each species deploys a distinct mechanism to recruit host actin, indicating convergent evolution.

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