We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Complete genome sequence of the metabolically versatile photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris.
- Authors
Chain, Patrick; Hauser, Loren; Lamerdin, Jane; Malfatti, Stephanie; Do, Long; Bobst, Cedric; Gibson, Jane; Peres, Caroline; Larimer, Frank W.; Land, Miriam L.; Pelletier, Dale A.; Beatty, J. Thomas; Lang, Andrew S.; Tabita, F. Robert; Gibson, Janet L.; Hanson, Thomas E.; Torres y Torres, Janelle L.; Harrison, Faith H.; Harwood, Caroline S.
- Abstract
Rhodopseudomonas palustris is among the most metabolically versatile bacteria known. It uses light, inorganic compounds, or organic compounds, for energy. It acquires carbon from many types of green plant-derived compounds or by carbon dioxide fixation, and it fixes nitrogen. Here we describe the genome sequence of R. palustris, which consists of a 5,459,213-base-pair (bp) circular chromosome with 4,836 predicted genes and a plasmid of 8,427 bp. The sequence reveals genes that confer a remarkably large number of options within a given type of metabolism, including three nitrogenases, five benzene ring cleavage pathways and four light harvesting 2 systems. R. palustris encodes 63 signal transduction histidine kinases and 79 response regulator receiver domains. Almost 15% of the genome is devoted to transport. This genome sequence is a starting point to use R. palustris as a model to explore how organisms integrate metabolic modules in response to environmental perturbations.
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2004, Vol 22, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nbt923