Disease relevance of Sphingomonadaceae

• Cloning, sequencing and expressing the carotenoid biosynthesis genes, lycopene cyclase and phytoene desaturase, from the aerobic photosynthetic bacterium Erythrobacter longus sp. strain Och101 in Escherichia coli [1].

High impact information on Sphingomonadaceae

• Melatonin was measured in a species of aerobic photosynthetic bacteria, Erythrobacter longus, grown in either constant light or constant dark [2].
• SD-21, however, has a number of distinguishing phenotypic features relative to Erythrobacter species, including the ability to oxidize Mn(II) [3].
• Strain LC8 appears to represent a new genus and species, Lutibacterium anuloederans gen. nov., sp. nov., within the Sphingomonadaceae [4].
• Two genes which encode the enzymes lycopene cyclase and phytoene desaturase in the aerobic photosynthetic bacterium Erythrobacter longus sp. strain Och101 have been cloned and sequenced [1].
• Roles of bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoid synthesis in formation of intracytoplasmic membrane systems and pigment-protein complexes in an aerobic photosynthetic bacterium, Erythrobacter sp. strain OCh114 [5].

Chemical compound and disease context of Sphingomonadaceae

• Synthesis of bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoids was inhibited in an aerobic photosynthetic bacterium, Erythrobacter sp. strain OCh114, by alpha, alpha'-dipyridyl and diphenylamine [5].
• Inhibition of porphyrin biosynthesis by exogenous 5-aminolevulinic acid in an aerobic photosynthetic bacterium, Erythrobacter sp. OCh 114 [6].
• Chemotaxonomically, strain S213(T) contains chemical markers that indicate its assignment to the Sphingomonadaceae: the presence of ubiquinone Q-10 as the predominant respiratory quinone, C(18 : 1) and C(16 : 0) as major fatty acids, C(14 : 0) 2-OH as the major 2-hydroxy fatty acid and sphingoglycolipids [7].
• Trimethylamine N-oxide respiration by aerobic photosynthetic bacterium, Erythrobacter sp. OCh 114 [8].
• Cytochrome c oxidase (cytochrome aa3-type) [EC 1.9.3.1] was purified from Erythrobacter longus to homogeneity as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and some of its properties were studied [9].

Gene context of Sphingomonadaceae

• Authentic HAVA prepared from ALA was a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme, porphobilinogen synthase of Erythrobacter [6].

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