[Submission] Sally the Streptomyces

The following submission was made by Sally the Streptomyces.

I was born into the family of streptomyces and apparently we are all disabled and cannot move around. It looks like our motility is in our genetic and has run down for the whole generation. I got some problems with this in my school. a lot of my friends tease me about my hyphae... They also tease me because i don't have flagella as they do...but one time, there's an azotobacter mocked me when i got my day of the month, when i release my spore. I gott angry and i sprayed my antibiotics on him and he CRIES so loud until the teacher, Lactobacillus came and punish usi still hate him until this day...

My friend Eugene the Eukaryote

Eugene looked very different than me from day one. He lacked a peptidoglycan. Yet it seemed that he had more in life. He had a nucleus. He had a car. He had membrane-bound organelles. But yet my late grandfather told me about the endosymbiosis theory. It's people like Eugene that needs to know about endosymbiosis.

Let's recap endosymbiosis. There are reasons why it is regarded to be something that actually happened.
- Eugene's organelle membrane has porins
- Eugene's mitochondria contains a bacterial-type 16S rRNA
- Eugene's mitochondria can perform binary fission.

So as I looked at Eugene for the very last time on his apoptotic bed (He was infected by this virus), I knew a part of me was living inside him.

Then he went to lysis.

Poor old Eugene and his mitochondria. Yet he doesn't have peptidoglycan.

Justin the Virus

Although viruses are very small, I have met some very nice viruses in my life.

One of them is Justin, which I met during school, a statistically perfect virus that is about 70nm in diameter (Yes I measured him). Statistically perfect. Justin lacked an envelope. This makes Justin actually protected from organic solvents. Justin said:

"I can survive in the GIT."

I doubted him. I told him that it is impossible. That was when I lost a friend. As Justin lacked an envelope to penetrate my heart with spikes, he just ignored me.

Then I realised that Justin was not a phage. He was just a simple virus.

Moral of the story is, don't judge a virus by its envelope.

But then again he isn't really an organism, is he?

Bacillus - They are LOUD!

Ever since the early days on the agar I always hear the same conversation everywhere. Bacillus this, bacillus that, how come they're always in the spotlight?!! I knew this bacillus once from school, I think his name was Tom, Thomas, Tony? I forgot. Anyways, from day one everyone always praises him for his long, filamentous flagella that protruded from his face as if it was a symbol of superiority. I mean back from what I remembered in PE, all he does is he tumbles from here and there.

This post basically shows my early experience with bacillus.

Back then, I was writing a post on my Peptidobook profile in the library. Then there was this filthy, extremely loud group of bacillus rods entering MY corner of the library. It was MY corner and I was an azotobacter I demand privacy. Without me no one would be able to fix the nitrogen on the plate.  So as the bacillus mumbled with their flagellum loud in the air making annoying sounds I respectfully told the group bacillus leader, the biggest bacillus of them all.

"Excuse me, it IS the library. Please be quiet."

But they did the bacillus thing again. Complete disregard. Anyways I kept on bumping with the same bacillus group that I had to find another spot. The azotobacter spot.

That's it for now.
Toodles!

I saw a phage

My friend, Tomoko, is a pseudomonas-type of gal. I always envied her peptidoglycan. She bought a new set of porins from Crystal, that lady that runs the pseudomonas gang. Us azotobacter always envied Tomoko. Although gram-negative, crystal also has a very thick peptidoglycan, just like gram-positive bacterium. But I always thought that pseudomonas are gram-negative? I don't know.

So I showed Tomoko to my house, just near the edge of the plate where I can see the bunsen light coming. Do you know what she said about my peptidoglycan? She said that hers is thicker than mine! Geez, so I slapped her with my NAG and NAMs and she started crying! Geez I thought she would lysis. But as she cried a saw a freaking PHAGE outside our house!!! So I told her to stop crying and she did. The phage was a typical T-Type phage with a huge head and massive legs. It protruded to my brother's room where he likes to transform to his cyst-form and aspire to produce antibiotics. So I threw Tomoko's brand new porin into the phage!!!!

The phage ran away and it saved us from lysis.

So that was my day.
How was yours?

I am confused

I live life as if I was gram-positive.

Yesterday, my parents, from whom I performed binary fission not long ago, told me about my gram-negative cell envelope. I looked at myself in the mirror every morning and I viewed my peptidoglycan as gram-positive.

So I am confused.

Am I gram-negative or gram-positive???

Here is a pic of me with my family.

You can see a pic of me. That's me, by myself and my parents are undergoing division.

I lived every hour of my life as gram-positive. Yet everyone is telling me that I am gram-negative!!!!!!

I am so confused!!!!!!!

Help me, as I am just a confused azotobacterium.

Just an azotobacter trying to blog

Hey guys,

I am just an azotobacter trying to blog.

I fix nitrogen and I have multiple nitrogenases!