Draft Genome Sequences from a Novel Clade of Bacillus cereus Sensu Lato Strains, Isolated from the International Space Station

Kasthuri Venkateswaran; Aleksandra Checinska Sielaff; Shashikala Ratnayake; Robert K Pope; Thomas E Blank; Victor G Stepanov; George E Fox; Sandra P van Tongeren; Clinton Torres; Jonathan Allen; Crystal Jaing; Duane Pierson; Jay Perry; Sergey Koren; Adam Phillippy; Joy Klubnik; Todd J Treangen; M J Rosovitz; Nicholas H Bergman

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00680-17

Draft Genome Sequences from a Novel Clade of Bacillus cereus Sensu Lato Strains, Isolated from the International Space Station

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 10;5(32):e00680-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00680-17.

Authors

Kasthuri Venkateswaran¹, Aleksandra Checinska Sielaff², Shashikala Ratnayake³, Robert K Pope³, Thomas E Blank³, Victor G Stepanov⁴, George E Fox⁴, Sandra P van Tongeren⁵, Clinton Torres⁶, Jonathan Allen⁶, Crystal Jaing⁶, Duane Pierson⁷, Jay Perry⁸, Sergey Koren³, Adam Phillippy³, Joy Klubnik³, Todd J Treangen³, M J Rosovitz³, Nicholas H Bergman⁹

Affiliations

¹ Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA kjvenkat@jpl.nasa.gov nicholas.bergman@nbacc.dhs.gov.
² Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
³ National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁵ Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁶ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁷ Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁸ Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
⁹ National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, USA kjvenkat@jpl.nasa.gov nicholas.bergman@nbacc.dhs.gov.

Abstract

The draft genome sequences of six Bacillus strains, isolated from the International Space Station and belonging to the Bacillus anthracis-B. cereus-B. thuringiensis group, are presented here. These strains were isolated from the Japanese Experiment Module (one strain), U.S. Harmony Node 2 (three strains), and Russian Segment Zvezda Module (two strains).