Cyanobacterial ultrastructure in light of genomic sequence data
Abstract
Cyanobacteria are physiologically and morphologically diverse photosynthetic microbes that play major roles in the carbon and nitrogen cycles of the biosphere. Recently, they have gained attention as potential platforms for the production of biofuels and other renewable chemicals. Many cyanobacteria were characterized morphologically prior to the advent of genome sequencing. Here we catalog cyanobacterial ultrastructure within the context of genomic sequence information, including high magnification transmission electron micrographs of sequenced representatives of each of the five morphological Subsections. We place the image data in the context of tabulated protein domains--which are the structural, functional and evolutionary units of proteins--from the 126 cyanobacterial genomes comprising the CyanoGEBA dataset. In particular, we identify the correspondence between ultrastructure and the occurrence of protein domains related to the formation of cyanobacterial inclusions. This compilation of images and genome-level domain occurrence will prove useful for a variety of analyses of cyanobacterial sequence data and provide a guidebook to morphological features.
- Authors:
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[6]
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). MSU-DOE Plant Research Lab.
- Masaryk Univ., Brno (Czech Republic)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris (France); Unite´ de Recherche, Paris (France)
- Univ. of California, San Francisco, CA (United States)
- Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (France). Inst. de Biologie de l’ENS, IBENS; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris (France)
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). MSU-DOE Plant Research Lab.; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Berkeley Synthetic Biology Inst.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1713209
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-91ER20021
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Photosynthesis Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 129; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0166-8595
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Ultrastructure; Morphology; Bioinformatics; Cyanobacteria; Transmission Electron Microscopy; Protein Domain; Inclusions; Carboxysome; Cyanophycin; Polyphosphate; Lipid droplets; Gas vesicles
Citation Formats
Gonzalez-Esquer, C. R., Smarda, J., Rippka, R., Axen, S. D., Guglielmi, G., Gugger, M., and Kerfeld, C. A. Cyanobacterial ultrastructure in light of genomic sequence data. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1007/s11120-016-0286-2.
Gonzalez-Esquer, C. R., Smarda, J., Rippka, R., Axen, S. D., Guglielmi, G., Gugger, M., & Kerfeld, C. A. Cyanobacterial ultrastructure in light of genomic sequence data. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-016-0286-2
Gonzalez-Esquer, C. R., Smarda, J., Rippka, R., Axen, S. D., Guglielmi, G., Gugger, M., and Kerfeld, C. A. Sat .
"Cyanobacterial ultrastructure in light of genomic sequence data". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-016-0286-2. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1713209.
@article{osti_1713209,
title = {Cyanobacterial ultrastructure in light of genomic sequence data},
author = {Gonzalez-Esquer, C. R. and Smarda, J. and Rippka, R. and Axen, S. D. and Guglielmi, G. and Gugger, M. and Kerfeld, C. A.},
abstractNote = {Cyanobacteria are physiologically and morphologically diverse photosynthetic microbes that play major roles in the carbon and nitrogen cycles of the biosphere. Recently, they have gained attention as potential platforms for the production of biofuels and other renewable chemicals. Many cyanobacteria were characterized morphologically prior to the advent of genome sequencing. Here we catalog cyanobacterial ultrastructure within the context of genomic sequence information, including high magnification transmission electron micrographs of sequenced representatives of each of the five morphological Subsections. We place the image data in the context of tabulated protein domains--which are the structural, functional and evolutionary units of proteins--from the 126 cyanobacterial genomes comprising the CyanoGEBA dataset. In particular, we identify the correspondence between ultrastructure and the occurrence of protein domains related to the formation of cyanobacterial inclusions. This compilation of images and genome-level domain occurrence will prove useful for a variety of analyses of cyanobacterial sequence data and provide a guidebook to morphological features.},
doi = {10.1007/s11120-016-0286-2},
journal = {Photosynthesis Research},
number = 2,
volume = 129,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Sat Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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