Complete Genome Sequence of Bacillus subtilis Strain 29R7-12, a Piezophilic Bacterium Isolated from Coal-Bearing Sediment 2.4 Kilometers below the Seafloor

Yuli Wei; Junwei Cao; Jiasong Fang; Chiaki Kato; Weicheng Cui

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01621-16

Complete Genome Sequence of Bacillus subtilis Strain 29R7-12, a Piezophilic Bacterium Isolated from Coal-Bearing Sediment 2.4 Kilometers below the Seafloor

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 23;5(8):e01621-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01621-16.

Authors

Yuli Wei¹, Junwei Cao¹, Jiasong Fang^{2

3}, Chiaki Kato⁴, Weicheng Cui¹

Affiliations

¹ Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
² Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China jfang@hpu.edu.
³ College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Hawaii Pacific University, Kaneohe, Hawaii, USA.
⁴ Department of Marine Biodiversity Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan.

Abstract

Here, we report the genome sequence of Bacillus subtilis strain 29R7-12, a piezophilic bacterium isolated from coal-bearing sediment down to ~2.4 km below the ocean floor in the northwestern Pacific. The strain is a Gram-positive spore-forming bacterium, closely related to Bacillus subtilis within the phylum Firmicutes This is the first complete genome sequence of a Bacillus subtilis strain from the deep biosphere. The genome sequence will provide a valuable resource for comparative studies of microorganisms from the surface and subsurface environments.