Cdc Identifies Nematode!

[hurtin1]

Yeah Kritts ,,I did notice that statement also....I just hope they arent messin with t-cruzi..

Anyway,,I ran across an article regarding the dynamics of nematode sperm,,was a strange read....

Acting like Actin: The Dynamics of the Nematode Major Sperm Protein (Msp) Cytoskeleton Indicate a Push-Pull Mechanism for Amoeboid Cell Motility -- Roberts and Stewart 149 (1): 7 -- The Journal of Cell Biology

Its just kinda weird that several months ago I found an article(web) about cytoskeletons,,,and all the shapes pictured ,,looked exactly like all the shapes of small stuff coming out of my pores..mostly the tiny fiber "cacoons"..
I will get from other computer,,and post.......
I just found it odd that the shapes were the same.....

[sarothra]

"It is, they look almost the same.
I still have a question though. Where are the fibers in this type ? It did not say anything about fibers or threads or filaments.
strongylus monospinigerum is more like it, for the fibers." (jee)


That's a good question and I think it could be that certain bacteria do form fibers, and since P. Asympatica (I'll refer to this as PA) is 99% undiagosed. No one is going to I.D. fibers from a bacteria that is not identified.

A possible explanation. PA is known to be a fibrous producing bacteria. Notice reference to the BIOFILM in the following link. Also the mention of the extracellular adherence protein - we all know how the goo is stronger than super glue!

SpringerLink Home - Main
O157:H7; antibiotic production in Photorhabdus luminescens; and biofilm forma- .... capsular polysaccharide synthesis enzymes (Korem et al. 2005). ... involved in bacterial adhesion and consequent biofilm formation, the only over- ... cellular fibrinogen-binding protein, and extracellular adherence protein. ...



Department of Biology & Biochemistry - University of Bath
Photorhabdus adhesion modification protein (Pam) binds extracellular polysaccharide and alters bacterial attachment
Robert T. Jones, Maria Sanchez-Contreras, Isabella Vlisidou, Matthew R. Amos, Guowei Yang, Xavier Muñoz-Berbel, Abhishek Upadhyay, Ursula J. Potter, Susan A. Joyce, Todd. A. Ciche, A. Toby A. Jenkins, Stefan Bagby, Richard H. ffrench-Constant and Nicholas R. Waterfield
J Bact.


Enzymic characterization with progress curve analysis of a collagen peptidase from an enthomopathogenic bacterium, Photorhabdus luminescens.
J Marokházi, G Kóczán, F Hudecz, L Gráf, A … - Biochemical …, 2004 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... collagen peptidase from an enthomopathogenic bacterium, Photorhabdus
luminescens ... A proteolytic enzyme, Php-B (Photorhabdus protease B), was purified
from the entomopathogenic bacterium, Photorhabdus luminescens. ...

What I think they are saying is that Photorhabdus produces a GLUE - type substance, known as COLLAGEN PEPTIDASE.

Definition of COLLAGEN PEPTIDASE:
Any of a class of organic compounds, the most abundant proteins in the animal kingdom, occurring widely in tendons, ligaments, dentin (see tooth), cartilage, and other connective tissues. Their molecules share a triple-helix configuration. Collagens occur as whitish, inelastic fibres of great tensile strength and low solubility in water. Soluble when first synthesized (the form used in personal-care preparations), collagen changes to a more stable, insoluble form. Glue made from collagen in animal hides and skins is a widely used adhesive.

A reason our immune system can't fight this off, is that Photorhabdus contains Php-B, the first of this type of protease to "be isolated from an insect pathogen...which, of course is now a human pathogen, Photorhabdus Asymbiotica.

One of these (proteases) (referred to here as Php-B,
for Photorhabdus protease B) was detected due to its pronounced
hydrolysis of Fua-LGPA (2-furylacryloyl-Leu-Gly-Pro-Ala), a
synthetic substrate for bacterial collagenases and related enzymes.
Here we describe the purification and characterization of this
protease, which appears to be a collagen peptidase, the first of this
type of protease to be isolated from an insect pathogen prokaryotic
micro-organism.

[Baraka Obam]

I know this is kinda getting away from the CDC thing but, one mounth ago I left town, left a tiny bit of coffee in a Dunkin Dognuts cup, little sugar, little coffee little of my saliva, perfect fibers and they have black speck balls of like eggs on the fibers. Maybe I will take a picture and do show and tell. it is interesting for sure.

[sarothra]

Originally Posted by Baraka Obam

I know this is kinda getting away from the CDC thing but, one mounth ago I left town, left a tiny bit of coffee in a Dunkin Dognuts cup, little sugar, little coffee little of my saliva, perfect fibers and they have black speck balls of like eggs on the fibers. Maybe I will take a picture and do show and tell. it is interesting for sure.

It's funny you should mention that, because I had a coffee cup that was unusually deep, and being the swish/swash kind of dishwasher I am, sometimes I didn't exactly clean the very bottom, but rather swished it and rinsed in hot water.

Well....apparently something - I should say, obviously, something, started growing in the bottom of the cup. It looked like a worm/maggot (sorry for the grossness), and it had black specks on it.

Here's the clinker: no matter WHAT I did to try to get that little sucker out of the bottom of the cup (and I really liked that cup!) it absolutely would not come out. It was stuck like glass melted to glass. It almost seemed to have the consistency of glass. I finally broke off a tiny piece with the edge of a knife and it behaved like glass too.

No matter what I did, it wouldn't come out so I had to throw it away. I was horrified and still am when I think about it.

sar

[Katinka]

...LOL...

[ladycolorado]

Originally Posted by Katinka

...LOL...

I LOVE the kitty photo!!!

[Katinka]

Hi LC...glad you like it...that expression on it's face cracks me up!

btw...how ya doin'?..hope you're doing good and everything is ok!

Kat

[Bee]

Could it be Photorhabdus Luminescens that makes some of my debris,parasites and greenish like acid looking,feeling ,beneath the skin on my face ?

Note: 3 days on albendazole and I seen Fibers in a couple 1/4 inch parasites.
They were not green.

[dragonfly2]

I agree mine look like those as well

[Doc Holliday]

Sarothra !!! if this is true .......it is unbelievable t y so much --- if it is true whoah hay L C so good to see ya Darlen............hey ya Tink ol Buddy,.....