Draft Genome Sequence of Syntrophorhabdus aromaticivorans Strain UI, a Mesophilic Aromatic Compound-Degrading Syntroph

Masaru K Nobu; Takashi Narihiro; Hideyuki Tamaki; Yan-Ling Qiu; Yuji Sekiguchi; Tanja Woyke; Lynne Goodwin; Karen W Davenport; Yoichi Kamagata; Wen-Tso Liu

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01064-13

Draft Genome Sequence of Syntrophorhabdus aromaticivorans Strain UI, a Mesophilic Aromatic Compound-Degrading Syntroph

Genome Announc. 2014 Feb 6;2(1):e01064-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01064-13.

Authors

Masaru K Nobu¹, Takashi Narihiro, Hideyuki Tamaki, Yan-Ling Qiu, Yuji Sekiguchi, Tanja Woyke, Lynne Goodwin, Karen W Davenport, Yoichi Kamagata, Wen-Tso Liu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.

Abstract

Syntrophorhabdus aromaticivorans strain UI is a mesophilic bacterium capable of degrading aromatic substrates in syntrophic cooperation with a partner methanogen. The draft genome sequence is 3.7 Mb, with a G+C content of 52.0%.