蓝藻
生物
基因
比较基因组学
基因组
基因簇
类胡萝卜素
生物合成
联合囊肿
遗传学
基因组学
功能(生物学)
计算生物学
生物化学
细菌
作者
Chengwei Liang,Fangqing Zhao,Wei Wei,Zhangxiao Wen,Song Qin
摘要
Carotenoids are widely distributed pigments in nature and their biosynthetic pathway has been extensively studied in various organisms.The recent access to the overwhelming amount genomic data of cyanobacteria has given birth to a novel approach called comparative genomics.The putative enzymes involved in the carotenoid biosynthesis among the cyanobacteria were determined by similarity-based tools.The reconstruction of biosynthetic pathway was based on the related enzymes.It is interesting to find that nearly all the cyanobacteria share quite similar pathway to synthesize β-carotene except for Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421.The enzymes, crtE-B-P-Qb-L, involved in the upstream pathway are more conserved than the subsequent ones (crtW-R).In addition, many carotenoid synthesis enzymes exhibit diversity in structure and function.Such examples in the families of ζcarotene desaturase, lycopene cylases and carotene ketolases were described in this article.When we mapped these crt genes to the cyanobacterial genomes, the crt genes showed great structural variation among species.All of them are dispersed on the whole chromosome in contrast to the linear adjacent distribution of the crt gene cluster in other eubacteria.Moreover, in unicellular cyanobacteria, each step of the carotenogenic pathway is usually catalyzed by one gene product, whereas multiple ketolase genes are found in filamentous cyanobacteria.Such increased numbers of crt genes and their correlation to the ecological adaptation were carefully discussed.
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