Species code:	SYNP2
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Cyanobacteria; Chroococcales; Synechococcus (TaxID: 32049) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 (formerly known as Agmenellum quadruplicatum strain PR-6) was isolated in 1961 from an onshore, marine mud sample derived from fish pens in Puerto Rico. It grows in brackish (euryhaline) and/or marine water. The organism is unicellular or forms short filaments of two to four cells at temperatures near the optimal temperature for growth, 38 degrees Celsius. Cells lack phycoerythrin or phycoerythrocyanin. Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 is facultatively photoheterotrophic with glycerol as substrate, has an obligate requirement for vitamin B12, and is naturally transformable. It is among the fastest growing of all cyanobacteria and is extremely tolerant of high light intensities. It does not fix nitrogen. It is widely used as a model organism for studies of the photosynthetic apparatus (trimeric PSI in particular is very stable), the regulation of carbon and nitrogen metabolism, and other aspects of cyanobacterial physiology and metabolism (adapted from http://www.bmb.psu.edu/faculty/bryant/lab/Project/Cyano/index.html).
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: No Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins: 1
Statistics:	Number of SYNP2 entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 3179 (97 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3082 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000951 (circular; 3,008,047 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAQ1 EMBL accession number CP000952 (circular; 4,809 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAQ3 EMBL accession number CP000953 (circular; 16,103 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAQ4 EMBL accession number CP000954 (circular; 31,972 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAQ5 EMBL accession number CP000955 (circular; 38,515 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAQ6 EMBL accession number CP000956 (circular; 124,030 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pAQ7 EMBL accession number CP000957 (circular; 186,459 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Li T., Zhao J., Zhao C., Liu Z., Zhao F., Marquardt J., Nomura C.T., Persson S., Detter J.C., Richardson P.M., Lanz C., Schuster S.C., Wang J., Li S., Huang X., Cai T., Yu Z., Luo J., Zhao J., Bryant D.A. ; "Complete sequence of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002."; Submitted (FEB-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	CyanoBase: http://plant1.kazusa.or.jp:3010/SYNPCC7002/index.html Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=28247 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Syne_PCC7002  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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