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Organism name
Chlorobium tepidum                                Find images with Google
NCBI taxonomy ID
Lineage
Description Green sulfur bacteria  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese
Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Chlorobium tepidum carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]

 CA00191  γ-Carotene  (Ref.355)
 

 CA00192  (15Z)-γ-Carotene  (Ref.197)
 

 CA00193  1',2'-Dihydro-γ-carotene  (Ref.355)
 

 CA00704  Chlorobactene 
 

 CA00708  (13Z)-Chlorobactene  (Ref.197)
 

 CA00709  (15Z)-Chlorobactene  (Ref.197)
 

 CA00710  1',2'-Dihydrochlorobactene  (Ref.355)
 

 CA00711  Hydroxychlorobactene  (Ref.355)
 

 CA00713  Hydroxychlorobactene glucoside  (Ref.359)
 

 CA00714  Hydroxychlorobactene glucoside laurate  (Ref.169)
 

References
  • Ref.355 : Takaichi, Shinichi; Wang, Zheng-Yu; Umetsu, Mitsuo; Nozawa, Tsunenori; Shimada, Keizo; Madigan, Michael T., Archives of Microbiology (1997), 168(4), 270-276., "New carotenoids from the thermophilic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum: 1',2'-dihydro-γ-carotene, 1',2'-dihydrochlorobactene, and OH-chlorobactene glucoside ester, and the carotenoid composition of different strains"
  • Ref.197 : Grazyna E. Bialek-Bylka, Ritsuko Fujii, Chun-Hai Chen, Hirozo Oh-oka, Akihisa Kamiesu5, Kazuhiko Satoh, Hiroyuki Koike & Yasushi Koyama, Photosynthesis Research 58: 135–142, 1998., "15-Cis-carotenoids found in the reaction center of a green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum and in the Photosystem I reaction center of a cyanobacterium Synechococcus vulcanus"
  • Ref.359 : S. Takaichi, Zheng-Yu Wang, Mitsuo Umetsu, Tsunenori Nozawa, Keizo Shimada, Michael T. Madigan, Archives of Microbiology, September 1997, Volume 168, Issue 4, pp 270-276, "New carotenoids from the thermophilic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum: 1′,2′-dihydro-γ-carotene, 1′,2′-dihydrochlorobactene, and OH-chlorobactene glucoside ester, and the carotenoid composition of different strains"
  • Ref.169 : Shinichi Takaichi, Zheng-yu Wang, Mitsuo Umetsu, Tsumenori Nozawa, Keizo Shimada, Michael T. Madigan, Arch. Microbiol. (1997), 168, pp. 270-276, "New carotenoids from the thermophilic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum: 1′,2′-dihydro-Á-carotene, 1′,2′-dihydrochlorobactene, and OH-chlorobactene glucoside ester, and the carotenoid composition of different strains"

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