MICB 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Oxidative Phosphorylation, Electrochemical Gradient, Heterotroph

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15 Dec 2017
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Use carbon (from organic molecules), energy, and electrons as a source of energy. A lot of prokaryotes are not impressed with it at all. Glucose does not satisfy energy requirements for prokaryotes. Metabolize of glucose leads to glycolysis (not the only way) Take home message: not everybody uses glucose, not everybody metabolizes with glycolysis. Specialized heterotrophs: opposite of versatility, they are stuck with using only (a few) organic molecules and tend to be closely related structurally. Specialized in the sense that they only use one carbon compound (methane) as electron source. Enzymes secreted from the organisms into the environment. Some enzymes secrete an enzyme into the environment to degrade fats. Helps digest the fat before transporting it into the environment. You don"t find free glucose floating around in the environment, they are usually in the form of starch or cellulose. Prokaryotes are very flexible and have a large diversity in the mode of catabolism depending on their environments.

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