Nucleotide sequence and predicted functions of the entire <i>Sinorhizobium meliloti</i> pSymA megaplasmid

Melanie J. Barnett(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Robert F. Fisher(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Ted Jones(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), C. Komp(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), A. Pia Abola(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Frédérique Barloy-Hubler(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Leah Bowser(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Delphine Capela(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Francis Galibert(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Jérôme Gouzy(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Mani Gurjal(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Andrea Hong(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Lucas Huizar(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Richard W. Hyman(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Daniel Kahn(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Michael L. Kahn(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Sue Kalman(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), David H. Keating(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Curtis Palm(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Melicent C. Peck(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Raymond Surzycki(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Derek H. Wells(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Kuo‐Chen Yeh(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Ronald W. Davis(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Nancy A. Federspiel(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Sharon R. Long(Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
July 31, 2001
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Abstract

The symbiotic nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti contains three replicons: pSymA, pSymB, and the chromosome. We report here the complete 1,354,226-nt sequence of pSymA. In addition to a large fraction of the genes known to be specifically involved in symbiosis, pSymA contains genes likely to be involved in nitrogen and carbon metabolism, transport, stress, and resistance responses, and other functions that give S. meliloti an advantage in its specialized niche.


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