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ArticlePLoS genetics2006

Secrets of soil survival revealed by the genome sequence of Arthrobacter aurescens TC1.

Emmanuel F Mongodin, Nir Shapir, Sean C Daugherty, Robert T DeBoy, Joanne B Emerson, Alla Shvartzbeyn, Diana Radune, Jessica Vamathevan, Florenta Riggs, Viktoria Grinberg and 4 more

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Article in PLoS genetics, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers.

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90 citing papers in PubMed, 234 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emmanuel F MongodinThe Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America.
Nir Shapir
Sean C Daugherty
Robert T DeBoy
Joanne B Emerson
Alla Shvartzbeyn
Diana Radune
Jessica Vamathevan
Florenta Riggs
Viktoria Grinberg
Hoda Khouri
Lawrence P Wackett
Karen E Nelson
Michael J Sadowsky
University of Minnesota · USBiotechnology Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arthrobacter sp. strains are among the most frequently isolated, indigenous, aerobic bacterial genera found in soils. Member of the genus are metabolically and ecologically diverse and have the ability to survive in environmentally harsh conditions for extended periods of time. The genome of Arthrobacter aurescens strain TC1, which was originally isolated from soil at an atrazine spill site, is composed of a single 4,597,686 basepair (bp) circular chromosome and two circular plasmids, pTC1 and pTC2, which are 408,237 bp and 300,725 bp, respectively. Over 66% of the 4,702 open reading frames (ORFs) present in the TC1 genome could be assigned a putative function, and 13.2% (623 genes) appear to be unique to this bacterium, suggesting niche specialization. The genome of TC1 is most similar to that of Tropheryma, Leifsonia, Streptomyces, and Corynebacterium glutamicum, and analyses suggest that A. aurescens TC1 has expanded its metabolic abilities by relying on the duplication of catabolic genes and by funneling metabolic intermediates generated by plasmid-borne genes to chromosomally encoded pathways. The data presented here suggest that Arthrobacter's environmental prevalence may be due to its ability to survive under stressful conditions induced by starvation, ionizing radiation, oxygen radicals, and toxic chemicals.

Indexed as

Sequence Analysis, DNASoil MicrobiologyArthrobacterAtrazineBiodegradation, EnvironmentalChromosomes, BacterialDNA, CircularDNA Transposable ElementsEnergy MetabolismGenome, BacterialMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyPlasmidsRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidAtrazineDNA, CircularDNA Transposable Elements

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PMID17194220
PMCPMC1713258
OpenAlexW1973060375

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