TORTORA • FUNKE • CASE Microbiology The Prokaryotes · PDF file• Includes nitrogen-fixing bacteria, chemoautotrophs, ... (anoxygenic photoautotrophs) Copyright © 2004 Pearson

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MicrobiologyB.E Pruitt & Jane J. Stein

AN INTRODUCTIONEIGHTH EDITION

TORTORA • FUNKE • CASE

Chapter 11The Prokaryotes:

Domains Bacteria and Archaea


The Prokaryotes: Domains Bacteria and Archaea• One circular chromosome, not in a membrane• No histones• No organelles• Peptidoglycan cell walls• Binary fission

Learning objective:

Make a dichotomous key to distinguish among the a-proteobacteria described in this chapter.


Bergey’s Manual

• Categorizes bacteria into taxa based upon rRNA sequences

• Lists identifying characteristics like: • Gram stain reaction• cellular morphology• oxygen requirements• nutritional properties

• Prokaryotes classified into two domains:• Bacteria• Archaea


• Bacteria essential to life on earth

• Proteobacteria• Mythical

Greek god, Proteus, who could assume many shapes

• Gram-negative

Domain Bacteria

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• Human pathogens:• Bartonella• B. hensela Cat-scratch disease• Brucella Brucellosis

The α (alpha) Proteobacteria

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• Includes nitrogen-fixing bacteria, chemoautotrophs, and chemoheterotrophs

• Obligate intracellular parasites:• Ehrlichia. Tick-borne, ehrlichiosis• Rickettsia. Arthropod-borne, spotted fevers

• R. prowazekii Epidemic typhus• R. typhi Endemic murine typhus• R. rickettsii Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever




Figure 11.1


• Wolbachia. Live in insects and other animals

• In an infected pair, only female hosts can reproduce

• “Popcorn” strain causes host cells to lyse

• Possible biological control of insects



• Have prosthecae:• Caulobacter. Stalked

bacteria found in lakes

• Hyphomicrobium. Budding bacteria found in lakes


Figure 11.2 & 3


• Plant pathogen:• Agrobacterium.

Insert a plasmid into plant cells, inducing a tumor


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• Chemoautotrophic:• Oxidize nitrogen for energy• Fix CO2

• Nitrobacter. NH3+ → NO2

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• Nitrosomonas. NO2– → NO3

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• Nitrogen-fixing bacteria:• Azospirillum

• Grow in soil, using nutrients excreted by plants

• Fix nitrogen• Rhizobium

• Fix nitrogen in the roots of plants


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• Produce acetic acid from ethyl alcohol:• Acetobacter• Gluconobacter



The β (beta) Proteobacteria

Learning objective:

Make a dichotomous key to distinguish among the β-proteobacteria described in this chapter.


• Thiobacillus• Chemoautotrophic, oxidize sulfur: H2S → SO4

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• Sphaerotilus• Chemoheterotophic, form sheaths


Figure 11.5

Sphaerotilus natans:

•Sheathed bacteria found in dilute sewage and aquatic environs


• Spirillum volutans:• Chemoheterotrophic,

helical• Note polar flagella

• Neisseria• Chemoheterotrophic,

cocci• N. meningitidis• N. gonorrhoeae (diplo-

cocci) – fimbriae attach to mucous membranes for greater pathogenicity


Figure 11.4 & 6

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• Bordetella• Chemoheterotrophic, rods• B. pertussis (pertussis or whooping cough)

• Burkholderia. Nosocomial infections (hospital infection)• Extraordinary nutritional spectrum, able to degrade

> 100 different organic molecules, can grow in disinfectant!

• Zoogloea. Slimy masses in aerobic sewage-treatment processes – essential to sewage treatment




The γ (gamma) Proteobacteria

Learning objective:

Make a dichotomous key to distinguish among the γ -proteobacteria described in this chapter.


• Pseudomonadales:• Pseudomonas

• Gram -• Opportunistic

pathogens• Metabolically

diverse• Polar flagella (characteristic, as in picture)

• Azotobacter and Azomonas. Nitrogen fixing• Moraxella. Conjunctivitis


Figure 11.7


• Legionellales:• Legionella

• Found in streams, warm-water pipes, cooling towers of air-conditioning

• L. pneumophilia (Legionnaire's)

• Coxiella• Q fever

transmitted via aerosols or milk


Figure 24.15b

Coxiella burnetii


• Vibrionales:• Found in coastal water

• Vibrio cholerae causes cholera

• Slight curvature of rods

• V. parahaemolyticuscauses gastroenteritis (raw/undercooked shellfish)


Figure 11.8

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• The γ (gamma) Proteobacteria• Enterobacteriales (enterics – intestinal tracts):

• Peritrichous flagella, facultatively anaerobic• Enterobacter• Erwinia• Escherichia• Klebsiella• Proteus• Salmonella• Serratia• Shigella• Yersinia




Figure 11.9a, b

Proteus mirabilis – swarmer due to multiple flagella


• Pasteurellales: • Non-motile• Human and animal pathogens• Pasteurella

• Cause pneumonia and septicemia• Haemophilus

• Require X factor (heme) and V factor (NAD+, NADP+) factors from blood hemoglobin

• H. influenzae – several important diseases (meningitis, earaches, epiglotitis, bronchitis, etc.)



• Beggiatoa• Chemoautotrophic, oxidize H2S to S0 for energy• Interface between aerobic and anaerobic layers in

aquatic sediments• Factor in discovery of of autotrophic metabolism

• Francisella• Chemoheterotrophic, tularemia



The δ (delta) Proteobacteria

Learning objective:

Make a dichotomous key to distinguish among the δ -proteobacteria described in this chapter.

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• Bdellovibrio. Prey on other bacteria• Desulfovibrionales. Use S instead of O2 as final

electron acceptor (sulfur reducing)• Releases tons of H2S into atmosphere, key part in

sulfur cycle• Myxococcales. Gliding. Cells aggregate to form

myxospores (stalked fruiting body – 2nd slide next)• Leave behind a slime trail (next slide)• Nutrition from bacteria they encounter




Figure 11.10a



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The ε (epsilon) Proteobacteria

Learning objective:

Make a dichotomous key to distinguish among the ε -proteobacteria described in this chapter.


The ε (epsilon) Proteobacteria

Figure 11.1a

• Helicobacter• Multiple flagella • Peptic ulcers• Stomach cancer

• Campylobacter• One polar flagellum• Gastroenteritis


Helicobacter pylori:

Example of a helical bacterium that doesn’t make a complete twist (different from spirochetes)

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The Nonproteobacteria Gram-Negative Bacteria

Learning objective:

Make a dichotomous key to distinguish among the gram-negative nonproteobacteria described in this chapter.


• Oxygenic photosynthesis • Once called blue-green algae• Water species have gas vacuoles for

buoyancy• Gliding motility• Fix nitrogen in heterocysts• Played important part in development of life

on earth, producing oxygen atmosphere

Cyanobacteria


Cyanobacteria

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• Anoxygenic photosynthesis• Purple and green sulfur bacteria (bottom formula)

Purple and Green Photosynthetic Bacteria

2H2O + CO2light

(CH2O) + H2O + O2

2H2S + CO2light

(CH2O) + H2O + 2S0

Learning objective:

Compare and contrast purple and green photosynthetic bacteria with cyanobacteria


Purple sulfur bacteria: intracellular sulfur granules (multicolored refractile objects (anoxygenic photoautotrophs)


• Low G + C• Gram-positive

FirmicutesLearning objective:

Make a dichotomous key to distinguish among the low G + C gram-positivedescribed in this chapter.


• Clostridium• Endospore-

producing• Obligate anaerobes• Endospores usually

distend the cell wall• Epulopiscium

• Very large, shown on the head of a pin

• rRNA determined placement with prokaryotes

Clostridiales

Figure 11.14 & 15


• Bacillus• Endospore-producing

rods• B. anthracis - anthrax

Bacillales

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• Staphylococcus aureus• Cocci in grapelike clusters• Gram-positive, produces enterotoxin• Grow fairly well under high osmotic pressure

and low moisture (nasal secretions, skin, ham and other cured meats)

Bacillales

Figure 1.17

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• Generally aerotolerant anaerobes, lack an electron-transport chain• Lactobacillus – lactic-

acid producing• Streptococcus –

more illnesses and diseases than any other bacteria group

• Enterococcus –intestinal tract, oral cavity

• Listeria –contaminates dairy

Lactobacillales

Figure 11.18

Streptococcus – many of spherical cells are dividing and somewhat oval


• Mycoplasma pneumoniae• No cell walls• Pleomorphic (irregular

cells)• Arrows indicate terminal

structures that likely aid attachment to eukaryotic cells

• 0.1 - 0.24 µm

• Filamentous growth of M. pneumoniae• Reproduces by

fragmentation of the filaments

Mycoplasmatales

Figure 11.19a, b


• High G + C• Gram-positive

ActinobacteriaLearning objective:

Make a dichotomous key to distinguish among the high G + C gram-positivedescribed in this chapter.


• Actinomyces• Corynebacterium• Frankia• Gardnerella• Mycobacterium• Nocardia• Propionibacterium• Streptomyces

Actinobacteria

Figure 11.20b


• Streptomyces –• Filamentous

branching growth with asexual reproductive conidiospores at tips

• Make up much of soil bacteria

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• C. trachomatis• Trachoma• STD, urethritis

• C. pneumoniae• C. psittaci

• Causes psittacosis

Chlamydiae


Generalized life cycle of Chlamydia (48 hours)

Figure 11.22a


Generalized life cycle of Chlamydia

Figure 11.22b

Elementary bodies – infectious stage

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• Borrelia• Leptospira• Treponema

Spirochaetes

Figure 11.23

Spirochetes –

•Helical, axial filaments under outer sheath

•Move by corkscrewlike rotation


• Anaerobic• Bacteroides. In mouth and large intestine• Cytophaga. Cellulose-degrading in soil

Phyla Bacteroidetes & Fusobacteria

• Fusobacterium• Found in mouth• May be involved in

dental diseases


• Hyperthermophiles (heat)• Pyrodictium• Sulfolobus

• Methanogens (methane)• Methanobacterium

• Extreme halophiles (salt)• Halobacterium

Domain Archaea

Figure 11.25

Archaea – Pyrodictium abyssi:

•Deep ocean, 110 degrees C

•Cells disk-shaped with network of tubules (cannulae)

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• Bacteria size range• Thiomargarita

(750 µm) to nanobacteria (0.02 µm) in rocks

Microbial Diversity

Figure 11.26

Thiomargarita namibiensis:

•Energy from reduced sulfur compounds


• Few of the total number of prokaryotes have been isolated and identified

• PCR indicates up to 10,000 bacteria/gm of soil. Many bacteria have not been identified or characterized because they:• Haven't been cultured• Need special nutrients• Are part of complex food chains requiring the

products of other bacteria• Need to be cultured to understand their metabolism

and ecological role

Microbial Diversity

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