| Entry | T00058 |
| Org code | sme |
| Name | Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021, endosymbiont of Medicago sativa and Medicago truncatula |
| Category | Reference genome |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 266834 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Hyphomicrobiales; Rhizobiaceae; Sinorhizobium/Ensifer group; Sinorhizobium; Sinorhizobium meliloti |
| 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_000006965.1 Complete Genome)
BioProject: 19 |
| Original DB | INRA |
| Keywords | Plant endosymbiont, Denitrification |
| Comment | Symbiont of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and its close relative Medicago truncatula.
Alpha-proteobacterium that forms agronomically important N2-fixing root nodules in legumes.
|
| Chromosome | Circular |
| Sequence | GB: AL591688 |
| Length | 3654135 |
| Plasmid | pSymA; Circular |
| Sequence | GB: AE006469 |
| Length | 1354226 |
| Plasmid | pSymB; Circular |
| Sequence | GB: AL591985 |
| Length | 1683333 |
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 6691694
Number of protein genes: 6233
Number of RNA genes: 71
|
| Created | 2001 |
| Reference | PMID: 11474104 (chromosome) |
| Authors | Galibert F, Finan TM, Long SR, Puhler A, Abola P, Ampe F, Barloy-Hubler F, Barnett MJ, Becker A, Boistard P, et al. |
| Title | The composite genome of the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti. |
| Journal | Science 293:668-72 (2001)
DOI: 10.1126/science.1060966 |
| Reference | PMID: 11481432 (plasmid pSymA) |
| Authors | Barnett MJ, Fisher RF, Jones T, Komp C, Abola AP, Barloy-Hubler F, Bowser L, Capela D, Galibert F, Gouzy J, et al. |
| Title | Nucleotide sequence and predicted functions of the entire Sinorhizobium meliloti pSymA megaplasmid. |
| Journal | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:9883-8 (2001)
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.161294798 |
| Reference | PMID: 11481431 (plasmid pSymB) |
| Authors | Finan TM, Weidner S, Wong K, Buhrmester J, Chain P, Vorholter FJ, Hernandez-Lucas I, Becker A, Cowie A, Gouzy J, et al. |
| Title | The complete sequence of the 1,683-kb pSymB megaplasmid from the N2-fixing endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti. |
| Journal | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:9889-94 (2001)
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.161294698 |
| Reference | PMID: 11481430 |
| Authors | Capela D, Barloy-Hubler F, Gouzy J, Bothe G, Ampe F, Batut J, Boistard P, Becker A, Boutry M, Cadieu E, et al. |
| Title | Analysis of the chromosome sequence of the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti strain 1021. |
| Journal | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:9877-82 (2001)
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.161294398 |
Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021