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Organism name
Synechococcus vulcanus                                Find images with Google

NCBI taxonomy ID
Lineage
Description Cyanobacteria: hot spring alga  (Primary producer of carotenoids)                              Japanese
Carotenoid Profile   [   Reconstructed carotenoid biosynthesis pathways of the Synechococcus vulcanus carotenoids  |   Search similar profiled organisms   ]

CA00309  β-Carotene  (Ref.197)


CA00311  (9Z)-β-Carotene  (Ref.197)


CA00310  (15Z)-β-Carotene  (Ref.197)


References
  • 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"

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