Complete Genome Sequence of the Photoautotrophic and Bacteriochlorophyll e-Synthesizing Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobaculum limnaeum DSM 1677T

Marcus Tank; Zhenfeng Liu; Niels-Ulrik Frigaard; Lynn P Tomsho; Stephan C Schuster; Donald A Bryant

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00529-17

Complete Genome Sequence of the Photoautotrophic and Bacteriochlorophyll e-Synthesizing Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobaculum limnaeum DSM 1677^T

Genome Announc. 2017 Jun 15;5(24):e00529-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00529-17.

Authors

Marcus Tank¹, Zhenfeng Liu¹, Niels-Ulrik Frigaard², Lynn P Tomsho¹, Stephan C Schuster¹, Donald A Bryant^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, Denmark.
³ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA dab14@psu.edu.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.

Abstract

Chlorobaculum limnaeum DSM 1677^T is a mesophilic, brown-colored, chlorophototrophic green sulfur bacterium that produces bacteriochlorophyll e and the carotenoid isorenieratene as major pigments. This bacterium serves as a model organism in molecular research on photosynthesis, sulfur metabolism, and bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis. We report here the complete genome sequence.