Draft Genome Sequence of Alternaria alternata JS-1623, a Fungal Endophyte of Abies koreana

Sook-Young Park; Jongbum Jeon; Jung A Kim; Mi Jin Jeon; Min-Hye Jeong; Youngmin Kim; Yerim Lee; Hyunjung Chung; Yong-Hwan Lee; Soonok Kim

doi:10.1080/12298093.2020.1756134

Draft Genome Sequence of Alternaria alternata JS-1623, a Fungal Endophyte of Abies koreana

Mycobiology. 2020 May 7;48(3):240-244. doi: 10.1080/12298093.2020.1756134. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Medicine, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Korea.
² Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural Genomics, Center for Fungal Genetic Resources, and Center for Fungal Pathogenesis, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
³ Microbiology Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, Korea.

Abstract

Alternaria alternata JS-1623 is an endophytic fungus isolated from a stem tissue of Korean fir, Abies koreana. Ethyl acetate extracts of culture filtrates exhibited anti-inflammatory activity in LPS induced microglia BV-2 cell without cytotoxicity. Here we report a 33.67 Mb sized genome assembly of JS-1623 comprised of 13 scaffolds with N50 of 4.96 Mb, and 92.41% of BUSCO completeness. GC contents were 50.97%. Of the 11,197 genes annotated, gene families related to the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites or transcription factors were identified.

Keywords: Abies koreana; Alternaria alternata; endophytes; whole genome sequence.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Institute of Biological Resources, funded by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea [Projects NIBR201921101 and NIBR202021101].