Complete Genome Sequence and Methylome Analysis of Micrococcus luteus SA211, a Halophilic, Lithium-Tolerant Actinobacterium from Argentina

F L Martínez; B P Anton; P DasSarma; V Rajal; V Irazusta; R J Roberts; S DasSarma

doi:10.1128/MRA.01557-18

Complete Genome Sequence and Methylome Analysis of Micrococcus luteus SA211, a Halophilic, Lithium-Tolerant Actinobacterium from Argentina

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jan 24;8(4):e01557-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01557-18. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Authors

F L Martínez^#^{1

2}, B P Anton^#³, P DasSarma², V Rajal¹, V Irazusta¹, R J Roberts³, S DasSarma²

Affiliations

¹ Instituto de Investigaciones para la Industria Química, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina.
² Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Micrococcus luteus has been found in a wide range of habitats. We report the complete genome sequence and methylome analysis of strain SA211 isolated from a hypersaline, lithium-rich, high-altitude salt flat in Argentina with single-molecule real-time sequencing.