| Entry | T03398 |
| Org code | stax |
| Name | Sphingomonas taxi ATCC 55669 |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:1549858 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Sphingomonadales; Sphingomonadaceae; Sphingomonas; Sphingomonas taxi |
| Org group | Bacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Sphingomonadales |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000764535.1 Complete Genome) |
| Comment | Produces astaxanthin naturally.
Isolated from Quebec Canada. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP009571) |
| Plasmid | STP1; Circular (GB: CP009572)
STP2; Circular (GB: CP009573) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 3401
Number of RNA genes: 63 |
| Created | 2014 |
| Reference | PMID: 26580858 |
| Authors | Ma T, Zhou Y, Li X, Zhu F, Cheng Y, Liu Y, Deng Z, Liu T |
| Title | Genome mining of astaxanthin biosynthetic genes from Sphingomonas sp. ATCC 55669 for heterologous overproduction in Escherichia coli. |
| Journal | Biotechnol J 11:228-37 (2016)
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201400827 |
