II Control of microbial growth
 
A. Terms
1. Sterilization
2. Disinfection
3. Antiseptic
4. Sanitize
B. How to kill microbes?
1. Nonspecific methods
a. Physical (heat)
b. Chemical (phenols, alcohol, halogens)
2. Specific - antibiotics
a. Discovery
b. How do they work?
c. Cellular Target Sites (cell wall, plasma membrane,
    nucleic acids, proteins)
 

3. Antibiotic resistance

a. Timeline
b. Increase
 
 
 
a. Timeline
 
1928 - Penicillin discovered
 
1930s & on - Rapid discovery of many new antibiotics
 

1940s - Penicillin use begins

1960s - Many infectious diseases declining, gov’t cuts
 research funding
 
1980s - Less research to discover new antibiotics
 (penicillin = magic bullet)
 
1990s - rapid increase in resistance
 
 
 Emerging antibiotic resistance
 
Enterococci
Staphylococcus aureus
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Penicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
 
Post-surgical prophylaxis
 

Antibiotics not regulated in foreign countries

 

Low doses used for growth promotion

 

Needless Prescriptions

•    Patients expect antibiotics even for viral infections
•    Parents demand antibiotics of pediatricians
•    1 out of 3 doctors sometimes or usually give in
 
Chapter 5 Metabolism
III. Metabolism
A. Catabolism
B. Anabolism
C. ATP
D. Enzymes
Properties
Factors that influence activity
Temperature
pH
Substrate concentration
Inhibitors
E. Energy production
Redox
Catabolism
Fermentation
Aerobic respiration
Anaerobic respiration
•    Metabolism is the sum of the chemical reactions in an organism.
•    Catabolism is the energy-releasing processes. Breaking chemical bonds
•    Anabolism is the energy-using processes. Building chemical bonds.
 
 
Microbes in disease
Biodeterioration
Snot-tites
    Energy from inorganic chemicals (H2S)
    H2SΰH2S04 Oxidation = energy release
    Carbon from CO2

 

Metabolism

 

ATP - link between catabolism and anabolism
Fig. 5.1
 

ATP structure

Fig. 2.18
 

Substrate cleavage

Fig. 5.4

 

Enzymestructure
Apoenzyme
Fig. 5.3
 
Apoenzyme - Holoenzyme
 

Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide

    Important coenzyme
 

What influences enzyme activity?

    Mode of Action of high temps.
        Bacteriocidal
    pH
    Substrate concentration
        Saturation of active sites

Enzyme inhibitors - competitive

    Sulfa Drugs compete for PABA binding site.  Bacteriostatic
    Resistant stains have rendered most ineffective
 

Non-competitive or allosteric

    Don’t bind to active site, but change shape
    Can bind irreversibly
 
Redox reaction Energy Transferred
•

Oxidation

–    electron lost (hydrogen)
–    energy released
•Reduction
–    electron gained (hydrogen)
–    energy bound
 
Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
    Oxidized form
    Reduced form
Redox reaction with e- carrier (NAD)

 

III. Metabolism
A. Catabolism
B. Anabolism
C. ATP
D. Enzymes
Properties
Factors that influence activity
Temperature
pH
Substrate concentration
Inhibitors
E. Energy production
Redox
Catabolism
Fermentation
Aerobic respiration
Anaerobic respiration