title: Complete genome sequence of the acetic acid bacterium Gluconobacter oxydans.
abstract: Gluconobacter oxydans is unsurpassed by other organisms in its ability to incompletely oxidize a great variety of carbohydrates, alcohols and related compounds. Furthermore, the organism is used for several biotechnological processes, such as vitamin C production. To further our understanding of its overall metabolism, we sequenced the complete genome of G. oxydans 621H. The chromosome consists of 2,702,173 base pairs and contains 2,432 open reading frames. In addition, five plasmids were identified that comprised 232 open reading frames. The sequence data can be used for metabolic reconstruction of the pathways leading to industrially important products derived from sugars and alcohols. Although the respiratory chain of G. oxydans was found to be rather simple, the organism contains many membrane-bound dehydrogenases that are critical for the incomplete oxidation of biotechnologically important substrates. Moreover, the genome project revealed the unique biochemistry of G. oxydans with respect to the process of incomplete oxidation.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University, Grisebachstr. 8, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Prust
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoffmeister
authors.forename: Heiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liesegang
authors.forename: Arnim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wiezer
authors.forename: Wolfgang Florian
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Fricke
authors.forename: Armin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ehrenreich
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gottschalk
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Deppenmeier
mesh_terms: D019342:Acetic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D019069:Cell Respiration / Q000502:physiology*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D004579:Electron Transport; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000502:physiology; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic / Q000502:physiology; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D020600:Gluconobacter oxydans / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000502:physiology*; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D010088:Oxidoreductases; D019342:Acetic Acid