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microbiology, Vol 144, 219-227, Copyright © 1998 by Society for General Microbiology


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Rhodobacter capsulatus genes encoding form I ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (cbbLS) and neighbouring genes were acquired by a horizontal gene transfer

GC Paoli, F Soyer, J Shively and FR Tabita
Department of Microbiology and Plant Molecular Biology/Biotechnology Program, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210-1292, USA.

Analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the form I ribulose-1,5- bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO) genes (cbbL and cbbS) of the non-sulfur purple bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus indicated that the deduced amino acid sequence of the large subunit was not closely homologous to the large subunit from related organisms. Indeed, phylogenetic analysis suggested that the large subunit protein (CbbL) more closely resembled the enzyme from alpha/beta/gamma purple bacteria and cyanobacteria and is within a 'green-like' radiation of the RubisCO phylogenetic tree, well separated from CbbL of the related organism Rhodobacter sphaeroides. A cbbQ gene was discovered downstream of cbbS in Rh. capsulatus, a gene arrangement which also appears to be limited to certain organisms containing a 'green-like' RubisCO. Upstream, and divergently transcribed from cbbLSQ, is a gene (cbbRI) that encodes a LysR-type transcriptional activator. Phylogenetic analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence of CbbRI also suggests that this protein is quite distinct from the Rh. sphaeroides CbbR protein, and is even distinct from the previously described CbbRII protein, the gene of which is upstream and divergently transcribed from the cbbII operon of Rh. capsulatus. Interestingly, Rh. capsulatus CbbRI is more closely related to CbbR from bacteria whose RubisCO falls within the 'green- like' radiation of the CbbL tree. These studies suggest that the cbbRI- cbbL-cbbS-cbbQ genes were acquired by Rh. capsulatus via horizontal gene transfer from a bacterial species containing a 'green-like' RubisCO.


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