Species code:	ROSCS
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Chloroflexi; Chloroflexales; Chloroflexaceae; Roseiflexus (TaxID: 383372) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Roseiflexus is a filamentous anoxygenic phototroph, one of the green filamentous bacteria. This lineage is placed on the deepest branch of all photosynthetic bacteria. R.castenholzii HL08 was isolated from a microbial mat in a Japanese hot spring. It is able to grow photoheterotrophically under anaerobic light conditions and also chemoheterotrophically under aerobic dark conditions. Optimal growth occurs at 50 degrees C and pH 7.5-8.0. The cells contain bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) a and gamma-carotene derivatives as photosynthetic pigments, but lack Bchl c and chlorosomes, a type of light-harvesting structure. Like many other phototrophic bacteria it has gliding motility. Comparative genomics indicates that it appears to have the genetic capacity for CO2 reduction via the 3-hydroxypropionate pathway (adapted in part from PubMed 11837302 and 17635550).
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: No Number of membranes: 1? Number of inteins: 1
Statistics:	Number of ROSCS entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4324 (159 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 4165 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000804 (circular; 5,723,298 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Glavina del Rio T., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Thompson L.S., Brettin T., Bruce D., Detter J.C., Han C., Tapia R., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Bryant D.A., Hanada S., Tsukatani Y., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of Roseiflexus castenholzii DSM 13941."; Submitted (AUG-2007) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/rosca/rosca.info.html Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=13462 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Rcas_13941  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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