First Insights into the Genome of the Amino Acid-Metabolizing Bacterium Clostridium litorale DSM 5388

Anja Poehlein; Hamed S Alghaithi; Lenin Chandran; Cynthia M Chibani; Elena Davydova; Karthikeyan Dhamotharan; Wanwan Ge; David A Gutierrez-Gutierrez; Advait Jagirdar; Bahar Khonsari; Kamal Prakash P R Nair; Rolf Daniel

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00754-14

First Insights into the Genome of the Amino Acid-Metabolizing Bacterium Clostridium litorale DSM 5388

Genome Announc. 2014 Jul 31;2(4):e00754-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00754-14.

Affiliations

¹ Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.
² Members of the Applied Bioinformatics in Microbiology Course of the Microbiology and Biochemistry MSc/PhD program, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.
³ Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany rdaniel@gwdg.de.

Abstract

Clostridium litorale is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, and spore-forming bacterium, which is able to use amino acids such as glycine, sarcosine, proline, and betaine as single carbon and energy sources via Stickland reactions. The genome consists of a circular chromosome (3.41 Mb) and a circular plasmid (27 kb).