Draft genome sequence of Dethiobacter alkaliphilus strain AHT1T, a gram-positive sulfidogenic polyextremophile

Emily Denise Melton; Dimitry Y Sorokin; Lex Overmars; Alla L Lapidus; Manoj Pillay; Natalia Ivanova; Tijana Glavina Del Rio; Nikos C Kyrpides; Tanja Woyke; Gerard Muyzer

doi:10.1186/s40793-017-0268-9

Draft genome sequence of Dethiobacter alkaliphilus strain AHT1^T, a gram-positive sulfidogenic polyextremophile

Stand Genomic Sci. 2017 Sep 21:12:57. doi: 10.1186/s40793-017-0268-9. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Emily Denise Melton¹, Dimitry Y Sorokin^{2

3}, Lex Overmars¹, Alla L Lapidus⁴, Manoj Pillay⁵, Natalia Ivanova⁶, Tijana Glavina Del Rio⁶, Nikos C Kyrpides^{6

5

7}, Tanja Woyke⁶, Gerard Muyzer¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Freshwater and Marine Ecology, Microbial Systems Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Centre of Biotechnology, RAS, Moscow, Russia.
³ Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
⁴ Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State, University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
⁵ Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA.
⁶ Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Dethiobacter alkaliphilus strain AHT1^T is an anaerobic, sulfidogenic, moderately salt-tolerant alkaliphilic chemolithotroph isolated from hypersaline soda lake sediments in northeastern Mongolia. It is a Gram-positive bacterium with low GC content, within the phylum Firmicutes. Here we report its draft genome sequence, which consists of 34 contigs with a total sequence length of 3.12 Mbp. D. alkaliphilus strain AHT1^T was sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) as part of the Community Science Program due to its relevance to bioremediation and biotechnological applications.

Keywords: Extreme environment; Firmicutes; Gram-positive; Haloalkaliphilic; Sediment; Soda lake.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

322551/ERC_/European Research Council/International