Abstract:Cyanobacteria of the Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus genera are the most abundant photosynthetic microbes in the ocean. Intriguingly, the genomes of these bacteria are very divergent even within each genus, both in gene content and at amino acid level of the encoded proteins. One striking exception to this is a 62 amino acid protein, termed Prochlorococcus/Synechococcus Hyper Conserved Protein (PSHCP). PSHCP is not only found in all sequenced Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus genomes but it is … Show more
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