Draft Genome Sequence of the Cellulolytic and Xylanolytic Thermophile Clostridium clariflavum Strain 4-2a

Elise A Rooney; Kenneth T Rowe; Anna Guseva; Marcel Huntemann; James K Han; Amy Chen; Nikos C Kyrpides; Konstantinos Mavromatis; Victor M Markowitz; Krishna Palaniappan; Natalia Ivanova; Amrita Pati; Konstantinos Liolios; Henrik P Nordberg; Michael N Cantor; Susan X Hua; Nicole Shapiro; Tanja Woyke; Lee R Lynd; Javier A Izquierdo

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00797-15

Draft Genome Sequence of the Cellulolytic and Xylanolytic Thermophile Clostridium clariflavum Strain 4-2a

Genome Announc. 2015 Jul 23;3(4):e00797-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00797-15.

Authors

Elise A Rooney¹, Kenneth T Rowe¹, Anna Guseva², Marcel Huntemann³, James K Han³, Amy Chen³, Nikos C Kyrpides³, Konstantinos Mavromatis³, Victor M Markowitz³, Krishna Palaniappan³, Natalia Ivanova³, Amrita Pati³, Konstantinos Liolios³, Henrik P Nordberg³, Michael N Cantor³, Susan X Hua³, Nicole Shapiro³, Tanja Woyke³, Lee R Lynd², Javier A Izquierdo⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA.
² Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
³ DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA javier.izquierdo@hofstra.edu.

Abstract

Clostridium clariflavum strain 4-2a, a novel strain isolated from a thermophilic biocompost pile, has demonstrated an extensive capability to utilize both cellulose and hemicellulose under thermophilic anaerobic conditions. Here, we report the draft genome of this strain.