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Searching Metagenomes for New Rhodopsins

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Most microbial groups have not been cultivated yet, and the only way to approach the enormous diversity of rhodopsins that they contain in a sensible timeframe is through the analysis of their genomes. High-throughput sequencing technologies have allowed the release of community genomics (metagenomics) of many habitats in the photic zones of the ocean and lakes. Already the harvest is impressive and included from the first bacterial rhodopsin (proteorhodopsin) to the recent discovery of heliorhodopsin by functional metagenomics. However, the search continues using bioinformatic or biochemical routes.

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This work was supported by Russian Science Foundation (RSF) Project 21-64-00018.

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  1. Evolutionary Genomics Group, Departamento de Producción Vegetal y Microbiología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Francisco Rodriguez-Valera

  2. Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Dolgoprudny, Russia

    Francisco Rodriguez-Valera

  3. Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Alina Pushkarev & Oded Béjà

  4. Departamento de Fisiología, Genética y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Riccardo Rosselli

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Rodriguez-Valera, F., Pushkarev, A., Rosselli, R., Béjà, O. (2022). Searching Metagenomes for New Rhodopsins. In: Gordeliy, V. (eds) Rhodopsin. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2501. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2329-9_4

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