Mesoplasma florum:Physiology
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From White
- Structure and function
- Growth and cell division
- Membrane bioenergetics: the proton potential
- Electron transport
- Regulation of the metabolic pathways
- Bioenergetics in the cytosol
- Central metabolic pathways
- Metabolism of lipids
- Metabolism of Nucleotides
- Metabolism of amino acieds
- DNA synthesis
- RNA synthesis
- Protein synthesis
- Inorganic metabolism
- Fermentation
- Homeostasis
- Membrane transport
- Protein transport
- Physiologic response to environment and stress
From Neidhardt
- Composition and organization of the bacterial cell
- Structure and function of the bacterrial cell parts
- assembly and polymerization: the bacterial interior
- Assembly and polymerization: the bacterial envelope
- Biosynthesis and fueling
- Quest for food
- Growth of cells and populations
- Effects of temperature, pressure and pH
- Genetic adaptation: the genome and its plasticity
- Genetic adaptation: genetic exchange and recombination
- Coordination of metabolic reactions
- Regulation of gene expression: individual operons
- Regulation of gene expression: multigene systems and global regulation
- Cell cycle
- Growth rate as a variable
From Schumann
- Structure of a bacterial cell
- cytoplasm compartment
- cytoplasmic membrane compartment
- extracellular matrices
- appendages
- Organization of the bacterial chromosome
- structure of the chromosome
- principles to compact the bacterial chromosome
- superhelicity
- histone like proteins in E. coli
- ogranization of the bacterial chromosome into genes and repetitive sequences
- genes
- repetitive sequences
- large rearrangements within the chromosome
- duplications
- deletions
- inversions
- The bacterial cell cycle: Replication of the chromosome, partitioning, and cell divison
- replication of circular chromosomes
- partitioning of daughter chromosomes
- cell division
- Recombination
- homologous recombination
- the RecBCD pathway of homologous recombination
- The RecF pathway of homologous recombination
- additional homologous recombination functions
- recovery of replication at a blocking DNA lesion
- sequence specific recombination
- integration/excision systems
- resolvase systems
- inversion systems
- shufflons
- integrons
- homing endonucleases
- illegitimate recombination
- insertion sequence elements
- transposons
- transposing bacteriophages
- mechanisms of transposition
- conjugative and integrative elements
- nonhomologous endjoining (NHEJ)
- Origin of Mutations and Repair of DNA lesions
- Principles of Gene Regulation
- Protein quality control through chaperones, protein folding catalysts and ATP-dependent proteases
- Secretion of proteins
- Stress genes and their regulation
- Exchange of genes: transformation, conjugation and transduction
Organizational ideas
- Structure & composition
- Information and control
- Transport systems
- Degradation pathways
- Fermentation and energy production
- Synthetic pathways
- DNA replication
- RNA transcription
- Protein production
- Cell division