Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 140, Issue 1-2, Pages 45-50Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2008.11.006
Keywords
Rhizobiales; alpha-Proteobacteria; Symbiotic nitrogen fixation; Medicago; Symbiosis
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- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Germany [031U213D, 0313805A]
- National Institutes of Health [GM30962]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [MCB-0131376]
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Sinorhizobium meliloti is a symbiotic soil bacterium of the alphaproteobacterial subdivision. Like other rhizobia, S. meliloti induces nitrogen-fixing root nodules Oil leguminous plants. This is an ecologically and economically important interaction, because plants engaged in symbiosis with rhizobia can grow Without exogenous nitrogen fertilizers. The S. meliloti-Medicago truncatula (barrel medic) association is an important symbiosis model. The S. meliloti genome was published in 2001, and the M. truncatula genome Currently is being sequenced. Many new resources and data have been made available since the original S. meliloti genome annotation and an update was needed. In June 2008, we Submitted Our annotation update to the EMBL and NCBI databases. Here we describe this new annotation and a new web-based Portal RhizoGATE. About 1000 annotation updates were made; these included assigning functions to 313 putative proteins, assigning EC numbers to 431 proteins, and identifying 36 new putative genes. RhizoGATE incorporates the new annotion with the S. meliloti GenDB project, a platform that allows annotation updates in real time. Locations of transposon insertions, plasmid integrations, and array probe sequences are available in the GenDB project. RhizoGATE employs the EMMA platform for management and analysis of transcriptome data and the IGetDB data warehouse to integrate a variety of heterogeneous external data sources. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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