Complete genome sequence of Rhodospirillum rubrum type strain (S1T)

Journal Article · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Standards in Genomic Sciences

DOI:https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.1804360· OSTI ID:1049896

Munk, Christine ^[1]; Copeland, A ^[1]; Lucas, Susan ^[1]; Lapidus, Alla L ^[1]; Glavina Del Rio, Tijana ^[1]; Barry, Kerrie ^[1]; Detter, J Chris ^[1]; Hammon, Nancy ^[1]; Israni, Sanjay ^[1]; Pitluck, Sam ^[1]; Brettin, Thomas S ^[2]; Bruce, David ^[3]; Han, Cliff ^[3]; Tapia, Roxanne ^[3]; Gilna, Paul ^[4]; Schmutz, Jeremy ^[5]; Larimer, Frank W ^[2]; Land, Miriam L ^[2]; Kyrpides, Nikos C ^[1]; Mavromatis, K ^[1] ; Richardson, P M ^[1]; Rohde, Manfred ^[6]; Goker, Markus ^[7]; Klenk, Hans-Peter ^[7]; Zhang, Yaoping ^[8]; Roberts, Gary P ^[8]; Reslewic, Susan ^[8]; Schwartz, David C ^[8]

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1. U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute
2. ORNL
3. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
4. University of California, La Jolla
5. Stanford University
6. HZI - Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
7. DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
8. University of Wisconsin, Madison

Rhodospirillum rubrum (Esmarch 1887) Molisch 1907 is the type species of the genus Rho- dospirillum, which is the type genus of the family Rhodospirillaceae in the class Alphaproteo- bacteria. The species is of special interest because it is an anoxygenic phototroph that pro- duces extracellular elemental sulfur (instead of oxygen) while harvesting light. It contains one of the most simple photosynthetic systems currently known, lacking light harvesting complex 2. Strain S1T can grow on carbon monoxide as sole energy source. With currently over 1,750 PubMed entries, R. rubrum is one of the most intensively studied microbial species, in partic- ular for physiological and genetic studies. Next to R. centenum strain SW, the genome se- quence of strain S1T is only the second genome of a member of the genus Rhodospirillum to be published, but the first type strain genome from the genus. The 4,352,825 bp long chro- mosome and 53,732 bp plasmid with a total of 3,850 protein-coding and 83 RNA genes were sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute Program DOEM 2002.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Work for Others (WFO)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1049896
• Journal Information: Standards in Genomic Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 3; ISSN 1944-3277
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
BACTERIA
CARBON MONOXIDE
ENERGY SOURCES
GENES
GENETICS
HARVESTING
OXYGEN
PLASMIDS
RHODOSPIRILLUM
RNA
STRAINS
SULFUR
facultatively anaerobic
photolithotrophic
mesophile
Gram-negative
motile
Rhodospirillaceae
Alphaproteobacteria
DOEM 2002