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Organism name
Rhodobacter sphaeroides                                Find images with Google
NCBI taxonomy ID
Lineage
Description Alphaproteobacteria: phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese
Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]

 CA00121  3,4,3',4'-Tetradehydrorhodopin  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00122  3',4'-Dehydrorhodopin  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00073  Rhodopin  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00129  1-Hydroxy-1,2-dihydroneurosporene 
 

 CA00078  Didemethylspirilloxanthin  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00082  15Z-Spheroiden  (Ref.209)
 

 CA00081  Spheroidene  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00084  1,1'-Dihydroxy-3,4-didehydrolycopene  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00088  Dihydroxylycopene  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00096  Spirilloxanthin  (Ref.343)
 

 CA00176  Methoxyspheroidenone  (Ref.507)
 

 CA00179  2,2'-Diketospirilloxanthin  (Ref.343)
 

 CA00191  γ-Carotene  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00217  1'-Hydroxytorulene  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00202  1'-Hydroxy-γ-carotene  (Ref.208)
 

 CA00201  3-Hydroxy-β-zeacarotene  (Ref.208)
 

References
  • Ref.208 : M Albrecht, A Ruther, G Sandmann, J. Bacteriol. December 1997 vol. 179 no. 23 7462-7467, "Purification and biochemical characterization of a hydroxyneurosporene desaturase involved in the biosynthetic pathway of the carotenoid spheroidene in Rhodobacter sphaeroides."
  • Ref.209 : Yoshinori Kakitani ,Ritsuko Fujii ,Yasushi Koyama ,Hiroyoshi Nagae, Lee Walker, Bruce Salter ,and Alexander Angerhofer, Biochemistry, 2006, 45 (7), pp 2053–2062 DOI: 10.1021/bi0511538, "Triplet-State Conformational Changes in 15-cis-Spheroidene Bound to the Reaction Center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 as Revealed by Time-Resolved EPR Spectroscopy:  Strengthened Hypothetical Mechanism of Triplet-Energy Dissipation"
  • Ref.343 : Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz M.; Dilbeck, Preston L.; Tang, Qun; Mothersole, David J.; Martin, Elizabeth C.; Bocian, David F.; Holten, Dewey; Hunter, C. Neil, Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz M.; Dilbeck, Preston L.; Tang, Qun; Mothersole, David J.; Martin, Elizabeth C.; Bocian, David F.; Holten, Dewey; Hunter, C. Neil, "Functional characteristics of spirilloxanthin and keto-bearing Analogues in light-harvesting LH2 complexes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides with a genetically modified carotenoid synthesis pathway"
  • Ref.507 : George Britton, Harish C. Malhotra, Raj Kumari Singh 1, Sandra Taylor, Trevor W. Goodwin, Avraham Ben-Aziz, Phytochemistry, Volume 15, Issue 12, 1976, Pages 1971-1972, "Methoxyspheroidene and methoxyspheroidenone, two carotenoids from Rhodopseudomonas spheroides"

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