Genome Sequence of the Photoarsenotrophic Bacterium Ectothiorhodospira sp. Strain BSL-9, Isolated from a Hypersaline Alkaline Arsenic-Rich Extreme Environment

Jaime Hernandez-Maldonado; Brendon Stoneburner; Alison Boren; Laurence Miller; Michael Rosen; Ronald S Oremland; Chad W Saltikov

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01139-16

Genome Sequence of the Photoarsenotrophic Bacterium Ectothiorhodospira sp. Strain BSL-9, Isolated from a Hypersaline Alkaline Arsenic-Rich Extreme Environment

Genome Announc. 2016 Oct 13;4(5):e01139-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01139-16.

Authors

Jaime Hernandez-Maldonado¹, Brendon Stoneburner¹, Alison Boren¹, Laurence Miller², Michael Rosen³, Ronald S Oremland², Chad W Saltikov⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
² U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA.
³ U.S. Geological Survey, Carson City, Nevada, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA saltikov@ucsc.edu.

Abstract

The full genome sequence of Ectothiorhodospira sp. strain BSL-9 is reported here. This purple sulfur bacterium encodes an arxA-type arsenite oxidase within the arxB2AB1CD gene island and is capable of carrying out "photoarsenotrophy" anoxygenic photosynthetic arsenite oxidation. Its genome is composed of 3.5 Mb and has approximately 63% G+C content.

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