title: Isolation of crtI homolog from extremely halophilic archaeon Haloarcula japonica strain TR-1.
abstract: Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1 possesses phytoene dehydrogenase genes (crtIs). A crtI2 homolog was cloned from Haloarcula japonica strain TR-1. Nucleotide sequencing analysis of the possible crtI2 revealed that the structural gene consisted of an open reading frame of 1,521 nucleotides encoding 507 amino acids. Transcription of crtI2 in Ha. japonica was confirmed by RT-PCR.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Rie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yatsunami
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takaichi
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019843:Archaeal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001483:Base Sequence; D019613:Haloarcula / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D019843:Archaeal Proteins