Conservation of the photosynthesis gene cluster in Rhodospirillum centenum
| Autor: | F H Yildiz, Howard Gest, Carl E. Bauer |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Genetic Linkage
Operon Rhodobacter sphaeroides Microbiology Rhodobacter capsulatus chemistry.chemical_compound Gene cluster Photosynthesis Rhodobacter Bacteriochlorophylls Molecular Biology Rhodospirillaceae Phylogeny Rhodospirillum Genetics biology Genetic Complementation Test Structural gene Chromosome Mapping Chromosomes Bacterial biology.organism_classification Carotenoids chemistry Genes Bacterial Bacteriochlorophyll |
| Zdroj: | Molecular Microbiology. 6:2683-2691 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2958 0950-382X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1992.tb01445.x |
| Popis: | Summary Intraspecies and intergenus complementation analysis were utilized to demonstrate that photosynthesis genes are clustered in distantly related purple photo-synthetic bacteria. Specifically, we show that the linkage order for genes involved in bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoid biosynthesis in Rhodospirillum centenum are arranged essentially as in Rhodobacter capsulatus and Rhodobacter sphaeroides. In addition, the location and relative distance observed between the puf and puh operons which encode for light harvesting and reaction-centre structural genes are also conserved between these species. Conservation of the photosynthesis gene cluster implies either that there are structural or regulatory constraints that limit rearrangement of the photosynthesis gene cluster or that there may have been lateral transfer of the photosynthesis gene cluster among different species of phototrophic bacteria. |
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