Lessons from sequencing of the genome of a unicellular cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC6803

被引:27
作者
Kotani, H [1 ]
Tabata, S [1 ]
机构
[1] Kazusa DNA Res Inst, Chiba 292, Japan
来源
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | 1998年 / 49卷
关键词
cyanobacteria; genome sequencing; photosynthesis; plastid genomes; CyanoBase;
D O I
10.1146/annurev.arplant.49.1.151
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The nucleotide sequence of the entire genome of the unicellular cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, has been determined. The length of the circular genome was 3,573,480 bp, and a total of 3 168 protein-coding genes were assigned to the genome by a computer-assisted analysis. The functions of approximately 45% of the genes were deduced based on sequence similarity to known genes. Here are distinctive features of genetic information carried by the cyanobacteria, which have a phylogenetic relationship to both bacteria and plants.
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