Complete Genome Sequence of a Microcystin-Degrading Bacterium, Sphingosinicella microcystinivorans Strain B-9

Haiyan Jin; Tomoyasu Nishizawa; Yong Guo; Akito Nishizawa; Ho-Dong Park; Hajime Kato; Kiyomi Tsuji; Ken-Ichi Harada

doi:10.1128/MRA.00898-18

Complete Genome Sequence of a Microcystin-Degrading Bacterium, Sphingosinicella microcystinivorans Strain B-9

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2018 Sep 6;7(9):e00898-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00898-18. eCollection 2018 Sep.

Authors

Haiyan Jin¹, Tomoyasu Nishizawa², Yong Guo², Akito Nishizawa³, Ho-Dong Park⁴, Hajime Kato⁵, Kiyomi Tsuji⁶, Ken-Ichi Harada^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Environmental and Human Science, Meijo University, Tenpaku, Nagoya, Japan.
² College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan.
³ GeneBay, Inc., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
⁴ Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan.
⁵ Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
⁶ Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
⁷ Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University, Tenpaku, Nagoya, Japan.

Abstract

Sphingosinicella microcystinivorans strain B-9 has the ability to degrade cyanobacterial hepatotoxic cyclic peptides, microcystins, and nodularins. This is the first report of the complete genome sequence of the microcystin-degrading bacterium.