Publication Date:
2007-02-17
Description:
Chemoautotrophic endosymbionts are the metabolic cornerstone of hydrothermal vent communities, providing invertebrate hosts with nearly all of their nutrition. The Calyptogena magnifica (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae) symbiont, Candidatus Ruthia magnifica, is the first intracellular sulfur-oxidizing endosymbiont to have its genome sequenced, revealing a suite of metabolic capabilities. The genome encodes major chemoautotrophic pathways as well as pathways for biosynthesis of vitamins, cofactors, and all 20 amino acids required by the clam.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Newton, I L G -- Woyke, T -- Auchtung, T A -- Dilly, G F -- Dutton, R J -- Fisher, M C -- Fontanez, K M -- Lau, E -- Stewart, F J -- Richardson, P M -- Barry, K W -- Saunders, E -- Detter, J C -- Wu, D -- Eisen, J A -- Cavanaugh, C M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Feb 16;315(5814):998-1000.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Biolabs 4080, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17303757" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bivalvia/*microbiology
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Carbon/metabolism
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Chemoautotrophic Growth
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Gammaproteobacteria/*genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism/ultrastructure
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*Genome, Bacterial
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Photosynthesis
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*Symbiosis
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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