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HAMAP: Saccharophagus degradans (strain 2-40 / ATCC 43961 / DSM 17024) complete proteome

General information

Species:  Saccharophagus degradans (strain 2-40 / ATCC 43961 / DSM 17024)
Species code: SACD2
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Alteromonadales; Alteromonadaceae; Saccharophagus (TaxID: 203122) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description: Saccharophagus degradans (strain 2-40), formerly known as Microbulbifer degradans, is a Gram-negative, pleomorphic, aerobic, rod shaped, and motile bacterium. It belongs to a recently discovered group of marine bacteria that degrade and recycle complex carbohydrates. It was originally isolated from the salt marsh cord grass, Spartina alterniflora, in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Saccharophagus degradans contains degradative surface protuberances, containing what is collectively termed hydrolosomes. The chitinase, agarase and alginase produced by S.degradans are not exported into the extracellular medium but are localized in these surface protuberances. Thanks to these protuberances, it is able to recycle a multitude of ICP (insoluble complex polysaccharides) including agar, chitin, alginic acid, carrageenan, cellulose, B-glucan, laminarin, pectin, pullulan, starch, and xylan. Agricultural, aquacultural, and algalcultural wastes threaten to become an increasingly serious problem. The wastes are mostly recalcitrant complex carbohydrates, namely cellulose, chitin and agar. The degradative protuberances of S.degradans may become important bioremediation tools, using them as concentrated, organized, protective enzyme packets.
Properties: Presence of flagella: Yes
Human pathogen: No
Interaction: No
Number of membranes: 2
Number of inteins:0
Statistics: Number of SACD2 entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3999 (380 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3619 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)


Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    2-40 / ATCC 43961 / DSM 17024
Genome structure:
Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000282 (circular; 5,057,531 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):
[1] PubMed=18516288; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ]
Weiner R.M., Taylor L.E. II, Henrissat B., Hauser L., Land M., Coutinho P.M., Rancurel C., Saunders E.H., Longmire A.G., Zhang H., Bayer E.A., Gilbert H.J., Larimer F., Zhulin I.B., Ekborg N.A., Lamed R., Richardson P.M., Borovok I., Hutcheson S. ;
"Complete genome sequence of the complex carbohydrate-degrading marine bacterium, Saccharophagus degradans strain 2-40 T.";
PLoS Genet. 4:E1000087-E1000087(2008).
Web links:
Official genome site(s):
http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/micde/micde.home.html
Other web sites:
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid203122%5Borgn%5D
Genome Atlas: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/gwBrowser/precalc/project.php?pid=316
GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Sdeg_240
GOLD: http://genomesonline.org/GOLD_CARDS/Gc00360.html
PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p316_Sac_degra
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