Complete genome sequence of the metabolically versatile photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris
Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Joint Genome Institute · +8 more institutions
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…
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- 13.06
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- 100%
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Authors
19- FWFrank W. LarimerCorresponding
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- PCPatrick Chain
Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- LHLoren Hauser
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Joint Genome Institute
- JEJane E. Lamerdin
Palo Alto Unified School District, Joint Genome Institute, University of Delaware, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California San Diego
- SMStephanie Malfatti
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Joint Genome Institute
Topics & keywords
- Rhodopseudomonas palustris
- Biology
- Genome
- Gene
- Bacteria
- Rhodopseudomonas
- Whole genome sequencing
- Plasmid