Genome Sequence of the Psychrophilic Bacterium Tenacibaculum ovolyticum Strain da5A-8 Isolated from Deep Seawater

Maki Teramoto; Zhenyu Zhai; Ayumi Komatsu; Keigo Shibayama; Masato Suzuki

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00644-16

Genome Sequence of the Psychrophilic Bacterium Tenacibaculum ovolyticum Strain da5A-8 Isolated from Deep Seawater

Genome Announc. 2016 Jun 30;4(3):e00644-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00644-16.

Authors

Maki Teramoto¹, Zhenyu Zhai², Ayumi Komatsu², Keigo Shibayama³, Masato Suzuki⁴

Affiliations

¹ Oceanography Section, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan maki.teramoto@kochi-u.ac.jp suzuki-m@nih.go.jp.
² Oceanography Section, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan.
³ Department of Bacteriology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Bacteriology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan maki.teramoto@kochi-u.ac.jp suzuki-m@nih.go.jp.

Abstract

Some bacterial species of the genus Tenacibaculum, including Tenacibaculum ovolyticum, have been known as fish pathogens in the sea. So far, the only published genome sequence for this genus is for Tenacibaculum dicentrarchi, which could also be a fish pathogen. Strain da5A-8, showing 100% identity to the 16S rRNA gene sequence of T. ovolyticum DSM 18103(T), was isolated from seawater at a depth of 344 m in Kochi, Japan, and grew optimally at 10 to 20°C. The genome sequence of strain da5A-8 revealed the possible virulence genes commonly observed in the genus Tenacibaculum.