Genetics: Genome streamlining in a cosmopolitan oceanic bacterium

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5738, 2005, Pages 1242-1245

  Giovannoni, Stephen J ^a   Tripp, H James ^a   Givan, Scott ^a   Podar, Mircea ^b   Vergin, Kevin L ^a   Baptista, Damon ^b   Bibbs, Lisa ^b   Eads, Jonathan ^b   Richardson, Toby H ^b   Noordewier, Michiel ^b   Rappé, Michael S ^c   Short, Jay M ^b   Carrington, James C ^a   Mathur, Eric J ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLS; MICROORGANISMS;

GENE ENCODING; GENOME STREAMLINING; MICROBIAL CELLS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BACTERIUM; GENOME;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PELAGIBACTER UBIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEA; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PELAGIBACTER UBIQUE;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; CARRIER PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; SEA WATER; SIGMA FACTOR; SPACER DNA; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; CARBON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHOSPHATES; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SELECTION (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 23844446418     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1114057     Document Type: Article

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30. Supported by NSF grant EF0307223, Diversa Corporation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Oregon State University Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology. We thank S. Wells, M. Hudson, D. Barofsky, M. Staples, J. Garcia, B. Buchner, P. Sammon, K. Li, and J. Ritter for technical assistance and J. Heidelberg for advice about genome assembly. We also acknowledge the crew of the R/V Elakha for assistance with sample and seawater collections, the staff of the Central Services Laboratory at Oregon State University for supplementary sequence analyses, and the staff of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at Oregon State University for proteomic analyses. The sequence reported in this study has been deposited in GenBank under accession number CP000084.