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Journal of Bacteriology, July 2000, p. 3850-3853, Vol. 182, No. 13
Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et
Méditerranéennes, IRD, CIRAD, AGRO-M, INRA, 34398 Montpellier, France,1 and Laboratoire de
Microbiologie des sols, IRD/ISRA, 1386 Dakar,
Senegal2
Received 2 February 2000/Accepted 17 April 2000
A carotenoid biosynthesis gene cluster involved in canthaxanthin
production was isolated from the photosynthetic
Bradyrhizobium sp. strain ORS278. This cluster includes
five genes identified as crtE, crtY,
crtI, crtB, and crtW that are
organized in at least two operons. The functional assignment of each
open reading frame was confirmed by complementation studies.
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Isolation and Characterization of Canthaxanthin Biosynthesis
Genes from the Photosynthetic Bacterium Bradyrhizobium
sp. Strain ORS278

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Corresponding author. Mailing address: LSTM TA 10/J,
Campus de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. Phone:
(33) 467593783. Fax: (33) 467593802. E-mail:
Giraud{at}mpl.ird.fr.
Present address: IRD, Université de Provence, 13288 Marseille, France.
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