Complete genome sequence of the metabolically versatile photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris
By F. Larimer, P. Chain, Loren J. Hauser, J. Lamerdin, S. Malfatti, L. Do, M. Land, D. Pelletier, J. Beatty, A. Lang and 8 more. Nature Biotechnology, 2004
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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.
Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology
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- Effects of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA)-containing supernatants from selected Rhodopseudomonas palustris strains on rice growth under NaCl stress, with mediating effects on chlorophyll, photosynthetic electron transport and antioxidative enzymes (2014, background): “palustris strains are typically able to fix N2 [28] and so are an effective biofertilizer.”
- Contributions of anoxygenic and oxygenic phototrophy and chemolithotrophy to carbon and oxygen fluxes in aquatic environments. (2009, background): “Complete genome sequences of purple photosynthetic bacteria showed no autotrophic pathways other than the PCRC (e.g. Larimer et al. 2004, Tabita et al. 2008) (Tables 1 & 2).”