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Mycoplasma Interaction with Eukaryotic Cells

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Bacterial Invasion into Eukaryotic Cells

Part of the book series: Subcellular Biochemistry ((SCBI,volume 33))

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Mollicutes are the smallest and simplest self-replicating prokaryotes. These microorganisms lack a rigid cell wall and are bound by a single membrane, the plasma membrane (Razin et al., 1998). Wall-less prokaryotes were first described 100 years ago and now over 180 species, widely distributed among humans, animals, insects and plants are known (Razin et al., 1998). The lack of a cell wall is used to distinguish these microorganisms from ordinary bacteria and to include them in a separate class named Mollicutes. Most human and animal mollicutes are Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma species of the family Mycoplasmataceae. The trivial name mycoplasmas will be used by us to denote any organisms within this family. Mycoplasmas have an extremely small genome size of 0.58–1.35 mb (compared with the 4.64 mb of E. coli). Over the last three years the genomes of Mycoplasma genitalium (0.58mb) and Mycoplasma pneumoniae (0.816mb) have been sequenced (Himmelreich et al., 1996; Fraser et al., 1995), showing only 470 and 500 protein coding regions respectively. Their small genomes impose on these organisms limited metabolic options for replication and survival (Himmelreich et a1.,1997; Pollack et al., 1997).

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