Species code:	RHOS4
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rhodobacterales; Rhodobacteraceae; Rhodobacter (TaxID: 272943) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Rhodobacter sphaeroides (strain ATCC 17023 / 2.4.1 / NCIB 8253 / DSM 158) is an alphaproteobacterium. It harbors 2 chromosomes and five plasmids. It possesses an extensive range of energy acquiring mechanisms including photosynthesis, lithotrophy, aerobic and anaerobic respiration. It can also fix molecular nitrogen, synthesize important tetrapyrroles, chlorophylls, heme, and vitamin B12. It has also been shown to detoxify a number of metal oxides and oxyanions and is the subject of ongoing studies on bioremediation and is the first free living bacterium known to utilize the regulatory systems associated with quorum-sensing.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: No Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of RHOS4 entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4124 (434 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3690 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome 1 EMBL accession number CP000143 (circular; 3,188,609 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Chromosome 2 EMBL accession number CP000144 (circular; 943,016 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pRS241b EMBL accession number CP000145 (circular; 114,178 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pRS241c EMBL accession number CP000146 (circular; 105,284 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pRS241d EMBL accession number CP000147 (circular; 100,828 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina T., Hammon N., Israni S., Pitluck S., Richardson P., Mackenzie C., Choudhary M., Larimer F., Hauser L.J., Land M., Donohue T.J., Kaplan S. ; "Complete sequence of chromosome 1 of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1."; Submitted (SEP-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. [2] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina T., Hammon N., Israni S., Pitluck S., Richardson P., Mackenzie C., Choudhary M., Larimer F., Hauser L.J., Land M., Donohue T.J., Kaplan S. ; "Complete sequence of chromosome 2 of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1."; Submitted (SEP-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. [3] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina T., Hammon N., Israni S., Pitluck S., Richardson P., Mackenzie C., Choudhary M., Larimer F., Hauser L.J., Land M., Donohue T.J., Kaplan S. ; "Complete sequence of plasmid B of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1."; Submitted (SEP-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. [4] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina T., Hammon N., Israni S., Pitluck S., Richardson P., Mackenzie C., Choudhary M., Larimer F., Hauser L.J., Land M., Donohue T.J., Kaplan S. ; "Complete sequence of plasmid C of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1."; Submitted (SEP-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. [5] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina T., Hammon N., Israni S., Pitluck S., Richardson P., Mackenzie C., Choudhary M., Larimer F., Hauser L.J., Land M., Donohue T.J., Kaplan S. ; "Complete sequence of plasmid D of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1."; Submitted (SEP-2005) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://www.rhodobacter.org/ http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/rhosp/rhosp.home.html Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid272943%5Borgn%5D Genome Atlas: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/gwBrowser/project.php?pid=56 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Rsph_241 PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p56_Rho_sphae TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntrs03  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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