High quality draft genome sequence of the moderately halophilic bacterium Pontibacillus yanchengensis Y32(T) and comparison among Pontibacillus genomes

Jing Huang; Zi Xu Qiao; Jing Wei Tang; Gejiao Wang

doi:10.1186/s40793-015-0085-y

High quality draft genome sequence of the moderately halophilic bacterium Pontibacillus yanchengensis Y32(T) and comparison among Pontibacillus genomes

Stand Genomic Sci. 2015 Nov 10:10:93. doi: 10.1186/s40793-015-0085-y. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Jing Huang¹, Zi Xu Qiao¹, Jing Wei Tang¹, Gejiao Wang¹

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Sciences and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 P. R. China.

Abstract

Pontibacillus yanchengensis Y32(T) is an aerobic, motile, Gram-positive, endospore-forming, and moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt field. In this study, we describe the features of P. yanchengensis strain Y32(T) together with a comparison with other four Pontibacillus genomes. The 4,281,464 bp high-quality-draft genome of strain Y32(T) is arranged into 153 contigs containing 3,965 protein-coding genes and 77 RNA encoding genes. The genome of strain Y32(T) possesses many genes related to its halophilic character, flagellar assembly and chemotaxis to support its survival in a salt-rich environment.

Keywords: Flagellar and chemotaxis; Genomic comparison; Moderately halophilic; Pontibacillus; Pontibacillus yanchengensis.