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Bacteria Metabolism,Bacteria catabolism and Bacteria anabolism

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

What is Bacteria Metabolism: The series of biochemical reactions carried together within singular cell of the bacteria for survival process is called as Bacteria metabolism. Before analyzing the bacteria metabolism, it is better to now about the bacteria structure and its functions. Bacteria have uni-cellular organization, they grow easily and abundant in nature. Bacteria do not contain nucleus and lacks other advance organelles. Bacteria are also called as single-celled Prokaryotes. The main use of these bacteria content is for transporting chemical compounds into and out of the cell. Bacteria supports catabolism and anabolism path ways .To carry this metabolic pathways, bacteria needs certain amount of nutrients to produce energy which is useful existence of body cell

Bacteria Catabolism: Bacteria catabolism takes place for the breaking down the complex larger molecules into smaller units that means substances having higher energy level are break down into smaller energy level. And this energy is utilized by the cell organisms for performing cellular operations. Bacteria catabolism is categorized into two subdivisions, one is endogenous catabolism, and the other is exogenous catabolism.
Endogenous Catabolism: the energy obtained from the break down of larger molecules is used for building the structural unit and maintain the functionality of the cell, this process is carried out without external food intake.
Exogenous Catabolism: This process is nothing but breaking down of large molecules of food intake .This process involves hydrolysis, hydration, dehydrogenation, intermolecular substitution and dehydrogenation. The output products of this bacteria catabolism are inorganic compounds, water and carbon dioxide. The break down process of the substance is carried only in half path and the remaining process is done by the biosynthetic process.

Bacteria anabolism: Bacteria anabolism consists of several biochemical and physiological activities carried by synthesis of various chemical constituents of bacteria cell. Cellular components exist before the division of cell into two more cells .these cellular components are used for the growth purpose of newly formed cell. Due to the biosyntheses process new cell formation is carried out by combining smaller molecular weight building blocks. These cells will later gain some structural design by undergoing interrelated molecular reactions.
In Bacteria metabolism nutrients like proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids are converted into flagella, cell membranes and ribosomes by the sequential reactions carried by the enzymes and by their products.
Bacteria anabolism also includes reaction sites and energy activation units for the transport of small molecules into cells.

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