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Molecular Microbiology Bioenergetics Bacteriology for 2001
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Molecular Microbiology2 Outline Bacterial bioenergetics –What does this mean? –Mitchell’s hypotheses –Why G and mV do not appear in these lectures
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Molecular Microbiology3 Bacterial bioenergetics What I expect you to understand –electron transport chain and ATP synthesis –How bacteria are adapted to pursue life according to Mitchell’s hypotheses What is possible irrelevant –measuring PMF –the concept of Gibbs free energy
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Molecular Microbiology4 How does bacterial metabolism work Central pathways of metabolism Electron transport chain ATP synthase Are these separate entities or do they work together?
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Molecular Microbiology5 What is the point of the ETC? To reduce oxygen to water? To transport electrons? To move protons across a membrane? All of the above with a side order of chips?
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Molecular Microbiology6 Mitchell’s postulates Four postulates to explain –respiratory phosphorylation –transport of solutes –all membrane-based enzymology
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Molecular Microbiology7 Periplasmic space Building a chemiosmotic organism Cell membrane ATP ADP + P i H+
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Molecular Microbiology8 Building a chemiosmotic organism ATP ADP + P i H+ ATP ADP + P i H+
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Molecular Microbiology9 Building a chemiosmotic organism H+ ATP ADP + P i H+ Solute
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Molecular Microbiology10 Mitchell’s postulates Four postulates to explain –respiratory phosphorylation –transport of solutes –all membrane-based enzymology
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Molecular Microbiology11 Postulate 1 The respiratory or photosynthetic electron transport chains should translocate protons –i.e. the electron transport chain and other reactions should function as proton pumps
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Molecular Microbiology12 Building a chemiosmotic organism ATP ADP + P i H+ ATP ADP + P i H+
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Molecular Microbiology13 Postulate 2 The ATP synthase should function as a reversible proton-translocating ATPase –f1f0 ATPase –activity in the absence of a PMF –reverse flow in presence of PMF
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Molecular Microbiology14 Building a chemiosmotic organism ATP ADP + P i H+ ATP ADP + P i H+
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Molecular Microbiology15 Postulate 3 Energy-translocating membranes should have a low effective proton conductance –For a chemiosmotic organism to survive,protons must only be able to move through proteins, and not through membranes
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Molecular Microbiology16 Building a chemiosmotic organism ATP ADP + P i H+ ATP ADP + P i H+
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Molecular Microbiology17 Postulate 4 Energy-transducing membranes should possess specific exchange carriers to permit metabolites to permeate, and high osmotic stability to be maintained, in the presence of a high membrane potential
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Molecular Microbiology18 Ports, symports, antiports Solute Basic port
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Molecular Microbiology19 Ports, symports, antiports Solute Symport H+
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Molecular Microbiology20 Ports, symports, antiports Solute Antiport SoluteH+ or H+ or
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Molecular Microbiology21 So what drives ATP synthesis? What is the primary pump? The electron transport chain pumps 10 protons per NADH + H + The NADH + H + produced during glycolysis etc. is used to create ATP chemiosmotically
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Molecular Microbiology22 The ETC is the primary pump in aerobic respiratory organisms
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Molecular Microbiology23 Bacteria are chemiosmotic organisms Paracoccus denitrificans is an obligately respiratory organism. Has an f 1 f 0 ATPase which is coupled to a conventional electron transport chain. E. coli is similar but has a strange ETC and can ferment
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Molecular Microbiology24 The bacterial f 1 f 0 ATPase
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Molecular Microbiology27 What can pH be used for? Solute transport –substrates –drug efflux –maintenance of ionic balance Bacterial flagellar motion
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Molecular Microbiology28 What is the point of the ETC? To reduce oxygen to water? To transport electrons? To move protons across a membrane? Sometimes
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How does it all link in?
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Molecular Microbiology30 H+ ATP ADP + P i H+ NADH + H+ reduced FMN NADH + H+ reduced FMN Reduced electron acceptor Carbon Source Glycolytic Pathway TCA
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Molecular Microbiology32 Short questions for group work What other means are there of generating PMF? What other uses can a proton gradient be put to in bacterial cells?
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Section II Chemiosmotic solutions to environmental problems
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Molecular Microbiology37 Aerobic neutrophiles H+ ATP ADP + P i H+ Solute External pH 6-8 Internal pH 6-8 - - - - - - - -- - -
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Molecular Microbiology38 Aerobic acidophiles H+ ATP ADP + P i H+ Solute External pH 1-4 Internal pH 5.5 + + + + + + + ++ + +
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Molecular Microbiology39 Aerobic alkaliphiles ATP ADP + P i H+ Na+ Solute External pH 10-11 Internal pH 8.2 - - - - - - - -- - - Na+ H+ + + + + + + ++ + + +
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Molecular Microbiology40 Halophiles ATP ADP + P i H+ Na+ Solute - - - - - - - -- - - Na+ H+ + + + + + + ++ + + + Light External pH 6-10 Internal pH 6-8
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Molecular Microbiology41 Marine/halotolerant ATP ADP + P i Na + or H+ Na+ Solute - - - - - - - -- - - Na+ H+ + + + + + + ++ + + + Na+ or H+ External pH 6-10 Internal pH 6-8
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Section III An example of a proton pump Bateriorhodopsin
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Molecular Microbiology43 Halobacterium salinarum A member of the Archaea Also known as Halobacterium halobium When grown aerobically utilises a normal respiratory chain In the light under very low O 2, purple patches appear on their membranes
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Molecular Microbiology44 Halobacterium salinarum Cells lack chlorophyll Still can generate ATP from light Protons are pumped by a simple (ish) to understand mechanism centered on bacteriorhodopsin
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Molecular Microbiology45 Bacteriorhodopsin, crystal structure
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Molecular Microbiology46 Bacteriorhodopsin, crystal structure, showing retinal
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Molecular Microbiology47 Bacteriorhodopsin, crystal structure, showing retinal, top view
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Molecular Microbiology48 Clever bacterium Halobacterium salinarum possesses four rhodopsins –bacteriorhodopsin (bR) –halorhodopsin (HR) –sensory rhodopsins I and II
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Molecular Microbiology49 See overhead Mechanism p184 Nicholls & Ferguson
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Molecular Microbiology51 References Nichols and Ferguson - Bacterial Bioenergetics (Academic Press) Lehninger, Stryer or another good biochemistry text book ASM News
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