Genome Sequence of the Early 20th-Century Extreme Halophile Halobacterium sp. Strain NRC-34001

Priya DasSarma; Brian P Anton; Jessie M Griffith; Karina S Kunka; Richard J Roberts; Shiladitya DasSarma

doi:10.1128/mra.01181-21

Genome Sequence of the Early 20th-Century Extreme Halophile Halobacterium sp. Strain NRC-34001

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Jan 20;11(1):e0118121. doi: 10.1128/mra.01181-21. Epub 2022 Jan 13.

Authors

Priya DasSarma¹, Brian P Anton², Jessie M Griffith¹, Karina S Kunka¹, Richard J Roberts², Shiladitya DasSarma¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-34001 is a red, extremely halophilic archaeon isolated in Canada in 1934. Single-molecule real-time sequencing revealed a 2.3-Mbp genome with a 2-Mbp chromosome and two plasmids (235 kb and 43 kb). The genome encodes all conserved core haloarchaeal groups (cHOGs) and a highly acidic proteome.

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