Gene database of Caulobacter crescentus NA1000

<i>Caulobacter crescentus</i> is a Gram-negative single celled bacterium with a dimorphic life cycle not common in Bacteria. Specifically, the cell undergoes asymmetric cell division to produce a swimmer cell and one sessile cell at each cell cycle. The swimmer cell would swim for some distance prior to secreting a biological glue that helps adhere the cell to a surface. Such life cycle and its unique crescent cell shape are reasons why the bacterium remains an interesting object of study in many fields of biological research. This work sought to provide fundamental information about the genetic repertoire of <i>Caulobacter crescentus</i> NA1000 by parsing its annotated genome sequence downloaded from Genbank. Comprising gene name, gene function, and gene sequence of all genes in the bacterium’s genome, the resource should find use in functional genomics study for understanding the genes responsible for particular steps of this bacterium’s interesting life cycle.

新月柄杆菌（Caulobacter crescentus）是一类革兰氏阴性单细胞细菌，拥有在细菌界中较为罕见的二态生命周期。具体而言，该细菌会通过不对称细胞分裂，在每个细胞周期中产生一个游动细胞与一个固着细胞。游动细胞可先游动一段距离，随后分泌可帮助自身黏附于载体表面的生物黏合剂。该独特的生命周期与标志性的新月形细胞形态，使其成为众多生物研究领域中备受关注的研究对象。
本研究通过解析从基因银行（GenBank）下载的注释版基因组序列，旨在为新月柄杆菌NA1000的全套遗传信息提供基础数据。该数据集涵盖该细菌基因组中所有基因的基因名称、基因功能与基因序列，可应用于功能基因组学研究，以助力解析负责该细菌独特生命周期特定环节的相关功能基因。