Genome of an endosymbiont coupling N2 fixation to cellulolysis within protist cells in termite gut

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5904, 2008, Pages 1108-1109

  Hongoh, Yuichi ^a   Sharma, Vineet K ^a,b   Prakash, Tulika ^a,b   Noda, Satoko ^a   Toh, Hidehiro ^a,b   Taylor, Todd D ^a,b   Kudo, Toshiaki ^a,e   Sakaki, Yoshiyuki ^b,f   Toyoda, Atsushi ^b,c   Hattori, Masahira ^b,d   Ohkuma, Moriya ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; XYLOSE;

AMINO ACID; CELLULOSE; CHROMOSOME; GENE; GLUCOSE; MICROORGANISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; CELLULOSE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FERMENTATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLYSIS; ISOPTERA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDES; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOA; SYMBIOSIS; WOOD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; COPTOTERMES; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; PROTISTA; PSEUDOTRICHONYMPHA GRASSII;

EID: 56449115108     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165578     Document Type: Article

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21. We are grateful to all the technical staff of the Sequence Technology Team at RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC) and the Ecomolecular Biorecycling Science Research Team for their assistance. This work was supported in part by a grant for the President's Discretionary Fund of RIKEN; a Special Fund for RIKEN GSC; grants for the Bioarchitect Research Program and the Eco Molecular Science Research Program from RIKEN; a Discovery Research Institute Research Grant to Y.H. from RIKEN; a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas "Comprehensive Genomics" from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan to M.H.; and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to Y.H. and M.O. The authors declare no competing financial interests. The sequence data have been deposited in GenBank/DDBJ/EMBL under accession numbers AP010656-60.