Genome Sequence of Fulvimarina pelagi HTCC2506T, a Mn(II)-Oxidizing Alphaproteobacterium Possessing an Aerobic Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Gene Cluster and Xanthorhodopsin.

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Kang I, Oh HM, Lim SI, Ferriera S, Giovannoni SJ, Cho JC

Genome Sequence of Fulvimarina pelagi HTCC2506T, a Mn(II)-Oxidizing Alphaproteobacterium Possessing an Aerobic Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Gene Cluster and Xanthorhodopsin.

J Bacteriol. 2010 Sep;192(18):4798-9

Authors: Kang I, Oh HM, Lim SI, Ferriera S, Giovannoni SJ, Cho JC

Fulvimarina pelagi is a Mn(II)-oxidizing marine heterotrophic bacterium in the order Rhizobiales. Here we announce the draft genome sequence of F. pelagi HTCC2506(T), which was isolated from the Sargasso Sea by using dilution-to-extinction culturing. The genome sequence contained a xanthorhodopsin gene as well as a photosynthetic gene cluster, which suggests the coexistence of two different phototrophic mechanisms in a single microorganism.

PMID: 20639329 [PubMed - in process]