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Linear chromosomes in bacteria: no straight edge advantage?
Author(s) -
Galperin Michael Y.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
environmental microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.954
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1462-2920
pISSN - 1462-2912
DOI - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01328.x
Subject(s) - biology , pichia stipitis , xylose , genome , pyruvate decarboxylase , bacteria , sulfite , genetics , yeast , saccharomyces cerevisiae , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , biochemistry , fermentation , alcohol dehydrogenase , enzyme
The beginning of 2007 brought us the complete genome of the yeast Pichia stipitis, five archaeal and more than 25 completely sequenced bacterial genomes (Table 1). In addition, there were two genomics-related papers that deserve a special discussion. One of them (Fuchs et al., 2007) described an unfinished genome of the ubiquitous marine phototrophic bacterium Congregibacter litoralis, while the other (Cui et al., 2007) examined the properties of the Escherichia coli K-12 strains with a linear chromosome.