Genome Sequences of the Oxytetracycline Production Strain Streptomyces rimosus R6-500 and Two Mutants with Chromosomal Rearrangements

Damir Baranasic; Jurica Zucko; Mridul Nair; Arnab Pain; Paul F Long; Daslav Hranueli; John Cullum; Antonio Starcevic

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00517-14

Genome Sequences of the Oxytetracycline Production Strain Streptomyces rimosus R6-500 and Two Mutants with Chromosomal Rearrangements

Genome Announc. 2014 Jul 17;2(4):e00517-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00517-14.

Authors

Damir Baranasic, Jurica Zucko¹, Mridul Nair², Arnab Pain², Paul F Long, Daslav Hranueli¹, John Cullum³, Antonio Starcevic⁴

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
² Computational Bioscience Research Center, Biological Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
³ Department of Genetics, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
⁴ Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia astar@pbf.hr.

Abstract

The genome sequence of Streptomyces rimosus R6-500, an industrially improved strain which produces high titers of the important antibiotic oxytetracycline, is reported, as well as the genome sequences of two derivatives arising due to the genetic instability of the strain.