First Insights into the Genome of the Cr(VI)-Reducing Bacterium Clostridium chromiireducens DSM 23318

Anja Poehlein; Nils Höche; Alexander Mehr; Rolf Daniel

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00420-17

First Insights into the Genome of the Cr(VI)-Reducing Bacterium Clostridium chromiireducens DSM 23318

Genome Announc. 2017 Jun 1;5(22):e00420-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00420-17.

Authors

Anja Poehlein¹, Nils Höche², Alexander Mehr², Rolf Daniel³

Affiliations

¹ Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
² Members of the Applied Bioinformatics in Microbiology Course of the Microbiology and Biochemistry MSc/PhD Program, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
³ Genomic and Applied Microbiology and Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany rdaniel@gwdg.de.

Abstract

Clostridium chromiireducens is an obligate, anaerobic, Gram-positive, rod-shaped, and spore-forming bacterium that is able to reduce Cr(VI). The draft genome consists of one chromosome (5,448 Mb) and contains 4,773 predicted protein-encoding genes.