First Insight into the Genome Sequence of Clostridium liquoris DSM 100320, a Butyrate- and Ethanol-Producing Bacterium

Anja Poehlein; Hannes Neubauer; Philipp Niemeyer; Rolf Daniel

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00376-18

First Insight into the Genome Sequence of Clostridium liquoris DSM 100320, a Butyrate- and Ethanol-Producing Bacterium

Genome Announc. 2018 May 3;6(18):e00376-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00376-18.

Authors

Anja Poehlein¹, Hannes Neubauer², Philipp Niemeyer², Rolf Daniel³

Affiliations

¹ Genomic and Applied Microbiology & 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 & Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany rdaniel@gwdg.de.

Abstract

Clostridium liquoris is a strictly anaerobic, Gram-positive, nonmotile, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium. The major fermentation products from glucose are ethanol and butyrate. C. liquoris was isolated from a 20-year-old liquor fermentation pit. The draft genome sequence consists of a chromosome (2.892 Mb) harboring 2,788 predicted protein-encoding genes.