Species code:	ALTMD
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Alteromonadales; Alteromonadaceae; Alteromonas (TaxID: 314275) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Alteromonas macleodii is a common marine heterotrophic gamma-proteobacterium. Isolates cluster by molecular analysis into two major genotypic groups or ecotypes, one found in temperate latitudes in the upper water column and another that is for the most part found in the deep water column of the Mediterranean. This strain is one of the latter, having been isolated from 1000 m in the Eastern Mediterranean. Comparison with the type strain ATCC 27126, a representative of the surface water ecotype, indicates that strain DSM 17117 / Deep ecotype (AltDE) is probably better suited to microaerophilic conditions and for the degradation of recalcitrant compounds such as urea. These, together with other features, and the distribution of this genotypic group, indicate that this microbe colonizes relatively large particles that sink rapidly to meso and bathypelagic depths. The genomic data are consistent with a picture of incipient speciation driven by niche specialization (adapted from PubMed 18670397).
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: No Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of ALTMD entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4049 (218 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 3831 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number CP001103 (circular; 4,412,282 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=18670397; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Ivars-Martinez E., Martin-Cuadrado A.-B., D'Auria G., Mira A., Ferriera S., Johnson J., Friedman R., Rodriguez-Valera F. ; "Comparative genomics of two ecotypes of the marine planktonic copiotroph Alteromonas macleodii suggests alternative lifestyles associated with different kinds of particulate organic matter."; ISME J. 2:1194-1212(2008).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://egg.umh.es/about.php http://www.moore.org/microgenome/detail.aspx?id=61 Other web sites: Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=13374 GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Amac_Deepecotype PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p13374_Alt_macle  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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