Draft Genome Sequence of Two Marine Plantactinospora spp. from the Gulf of California

Luis Contreras-Castro; Luis A Maldonado; Erika T Quintana; Luciana Raggi; Alejandro Sánchez-Flores

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00436-18

Draft Genome Sequence of Two Marine Plantactinospora spp. from the Gulf of California

Genome Announc. 2018 May 24;6(21):e00436-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00436-18.

Authors

Luis Contreras-Castro¹, Luis A Maldonado², Erika T Quintana³, Luciana Raggi⁴, Alejandro Sánchez-Flores⁵

Affiliations

¹ Laboratorio de Bioprospección en Actinobacterias, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas (ENCB), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico City, Mexico lucoca2000@gmail.com lamaldo@comunidad.unam.mx.
² Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico lucoca2000@gmail.com lamaldo@comunidad.unam.mx.
³ Laboratorio de Bioprospección en Actinobacterias, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas (ENCB), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico City, Mexico.
⁴ Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Forestales, Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico.
⁵ Unidad Universitaria de Secuenciación Masiva y Bioinformática (UUSMB), Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Abstract

Plantactinospora sp. strains BB1 and BC1 were isolated in 2009 from sediment samples of the Gulf of California from among almost 300 actinobacteria. Genome mining of their ∼8.5-Mb sequences showed the bioprospecting potential of these rare actinomycetes, providing an insight to their ecological and biotechnological importance.