Common symptoms include: 1  Pain or tenderness in your face, jaw joint area, neck and shoulders, and in or around the ear when you chew, speak, or open your mouth wide. 2  Problems when you try to open your mouth wide. 3  Jaws that get stuck or lock in the open-or closed-mouth position.
Fimbriae: 1  Structure: Similar to pili, but shorter and more abundant on the cell surface. 2  Function: Adhesion of cells to surface and formation of pellicles (biofilms) containing thin sheets of cells on a liquid surface.
In gram-negative bacteria, the cell wall is thin and releases the dye readily when washed with an alcohol or acetone solution. Cytoplasm-The cytoplasm, or protoplasm, of bacterial cells is where the functions for cell growth, metabolism, and replication are carried out.It is a gel-like matrix composed of water, enzymes, nutrients, wastes, and gases and contains cell structures such as ribosomes, a chromosome, and plasmids.nlike the eukaryotic (true) cells, bacteria do not have a membrane enclosed nucleus. The chromosome, a single, continuous strand of DNA, is localized, but not contained, in a region of the cell called the nucleoid.