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SUBMITTER: Graham JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2593218 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Graham Joel E JE Bryant Donald A DA
Journal of bacteriology 20081010 24
The euryhaline, unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002 produces the dicyclic aromatic carotenoid synechoxanthin (chi,chi-caroten-18,18'-dioic acid) as a major pigment (>15% of total carotenoid) and when grown to stationary phase also accumulates small amounts of renierapurpurin (chi,chi-carotene) (J. E. Graham, J. T. J. Lecomte, and D. A. Bryant, J. Nat. Prod. 71:1647-1650, 2008). Two genes that were predicted to encode enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of synechoxanthin ...[more]