Complete genome sequence of the chemolithoautotrophic marine magnetotactic coccus strain MC-1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4835-4852

  Schübbe, Sabrina ^a,g   Williams, Timothy J ^b   Xie, Gary ^c,d   Kiss, Hajnalka E ^c,d   Brettin, Thomas S ^c,d   Martinez, Diego ^c,d   Ross, Christian A ^a   Schüler, Dirk ^e   Cox, B Lea ^f   Nealson, Kenneth H ^f   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g INM LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEW MATERIALS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL STRAINS; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; CARBON METABOLISM; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPHIC; COMPLETE GENOMES; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HETEROTROPHIC GROWTH; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; MARINE BACTERIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; GENES; METABOLISM; STRAIN; SULFUR;

SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS;

ACETIC ACID; CARBON; IRON; NITROGEN; SULFUR;

ACETATE; BACTERIUM; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBON METABOLISM; CELL MOTILITY; CELL TRANSPORT; CHEMOLITHOAUTOTROPH; CHEMOTAXIS; COCCUS (BACTERIUM); CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HETEROTROPHY; IRON METABOLISM; MAGNETOSOME; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE BACTERIUM STRAIN MC 1; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETATES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETICS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAGNETOCOCCUS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 67650445451     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02874-08     Document Type: Article

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