Draft genome sequence of strain MC1A, a UV-resistant bacterium isolated from dry soil in Puerto Rico

Mara F Cuebas-Irizarry; Jariselle M Pietri-Toro; Rafael Montalvo-Rodríguez

doi:10.1016/j.gdata.2016.01.018

Draft genome sequence of strain MC1A, a UV-resistant bacterium isolated from dry soil in Puerto Rico

Genom Data. 2016 Feb 1:7:243-4. doi: 10.1016/j.gdata.2016.01.018. eCollection 2016 Mar.

Authors

Mara F Cuebas-Irizarry¹, Jariselle M Pietri-Toro¹, Rafael Montalvo-Rodríguez¹

Affiliation

¹ Biology Department, Box 9000, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez 00681, Puerto Rico.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequence of a novel UV-resistant bacterium isolated from dry soil on the south coast of Puerto Rico. Based on polyphasic taxonomy, strain MC1A represents a new species and the name Solirubrum puertoriconensis is proposed. Assembly was performed using NGEN Assembler into eight contigs (N50 = 1,292,788), the largest of which included 1,549,887 bp. The draft genome consists of 4,810,875 bp and has a GC content of 58.7%. Several genes related to DNA repair and UV resistance were found. The Whole Genome Shotgun project is available at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession LNAL00000000.

Keywords: Caribbean; Genome sequence; UV-resistant bacteria.