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Diversity and evolution of phycobilisomes in marine Synechococcus spp.: a comparative genomics study

Christophe Six1,2, Jean-Claude Thomas3, Laurence Garczarek1, Martin Ostrowski4, Alexis Dufresne1, Nicolas Blot1, David J Scanlan4 and Frédéric Partensky1*

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1 UMR 7144 Université Paris VI and CNRS, Station Biologique, Groupe Plancton Océanique, F-29682 Roscoff cedex, France

2 Mount Allison University, Photosynthetic Molecular Ecophysiology Group, Biology Department, E4L 1G7 Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada

3 UMR 8186 CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Biologie Moléculaire des Organismes Photosynthétiques, F-75230 Paris, France

4 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R259 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-12-r259

Published: 5 December 2007

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Additional data file 1:

Genes involved in PBS metabolism or regulation in the 11 genomes of marine Synechococcus.

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Identical residues are shown in yellow type on purple squares, blue type on dark grey indicates that the percentage of conserved residues is >80%, and black type on light grey indicates that the percentage of conserved residues is >60%. Note that PEII-containing strains possess a conserved region containing two cysteinyl residues (highlighted by red boxes), whereas in the PEII-lacking WH7805 strain, this region is missing. This region is involved in the binding of a PUB molecule via a thioether bond linking C-31 and C-181 of the chromophore to the two cysteinyl residues.

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Note that the novel, putative linkers found in the chromatic adapters and in RCC307 (Table 3) make two distinct clusters that we have called MpeF and MpeG. Colored stars indicate the pigment type of each strain (Figure 1) and numbers at internal branches correspond to bootstrap values for 1,000 replicate trees obtained with ML/NJ/MP methods, respectively.

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The primitive, freshwater cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421 is used as an outgroup. Colored stars indicate the pigment type of each strain (Figure 1) and numbers at internal branches correspond to bootstrap values for 1,000 replicate trees obtained with ML/NJ/MP methods, respectively.

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Colored stars indicate the pigment type of each strain (Figure 1) and numbers at internal branches correspond to bootstrap values for 1,000 replicate trees obtained with ML/NJ/MP methods, respectively.

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Colored stars indicate the pigment type of each strain (Figure 1) and numbers at internal branches correspond to bootstrap values for 1,000 replicate trees obtained with ML/NJ/MP methods, respectively.

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