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"...at 816 kb the M. pneumoniae
genome is among the smallest known for a cell capable of a
free-living existence, lacking genes for cell wall production, de
novo synthesis of nucleotides and amino acids, and two component
or other common bacterial transcriptional regulators." Please see Wodke et al., 2013 PMID 23549481, p.2 left column 2nd paragraph: "It evolved by massive genome reduction, resulting in a single, small chromosome of only 816,394 base pairs, encoding 689 proteins (Himmelreich et al, 1996, Dandekar et al, 2000)." See BNID 105492 |