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Organism name
Rubrivivax gelatinosus                                Find images with Google
NCBI taxonomy ID
Lineage
Description Betaproteobacteria: phototrophic purple nonsulfur bacteria  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese
Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Rubrivivax gelatinosus carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]

 CA00047  Neurosporene  (Ref.354)
 

 CA00081  Spheroidene  (Ref.354)
 

 CA00092  Hydroxyspheroidene  (Ref.354)
 

 CA00096  Spirilloxanthin  (Ref.546)
 

 CA00165  Spheroidenone  (Ref.354)
 

 CA00169  Phillipsiaxanthin  (Ref.108)
 

 CA00171  Hydroxyspheroidenone  (Ref.354)
 

References
  • Ref.354 : Jirsakova, Vladimira; Reiss-Husson, Francoise; van Dijk, Bas; Owen, Gabrielle; Hoff, Arnold J., Photochemistry and Photobiology (1996), 64(2), 363-368., "Characterization of carotenoid triplet states in the light-harvesting complex B800-850 from the purple bacterium Rubrivivax gelatinosus"
  • Ref.546 : Sabine STEIGER, Chantal ASTIER and Gerhard SANDMANN, Biochem. J. (2000) 349, 635–640, "Substrate specificity of the expressed carotenoid 3,4-desaturase from Rubrivivax gelatinosus reveals the detailed reaction sequence to spheroidene and spirilloxanthin"
  • Ref.108 : Pinta, Violaine; Ouchane, Soufian; Picaud, Martine; Takaichi, Shinichi; Astier, Chantal; Reiss-Husson, Francoise, Archives of Microbiology (2003), 179(5), 354-362., "Characterization of unusual hydroxy- and ketocarotenoids in Rubrivivax gelatinosus: involvement of enzyme CrtF or CrtA"

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