First Insights into the Completely Annotated Genome Sequence of Bacillus licheniformis Strain 9945A

Michael Rachinger; Sonja Volland; Friedhelm Meinhardt; Rolf Daniel; Heiko Liesegang

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00525-13

First Insights into the Completely Annotated Genome Sequence of Bacillus licheniformis Strain 9945A

Genome Announc. 2013 Aug 1;1(4):e00525-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00525-13.

Authors

Michael Rachinger¹, Sonja Volland, Friedhelm Meinhardt, Rolf Daniel, Heiko Liesegang

Affiliation

¹ Georg-August University Göttingen, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Genomic and Applied Microbiology & Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Göttingen, Germany.

Abstract

Strains of the species Bacillus licheniformis are widely used in biotechnology for the production of enzymes and antibiotics (M. Schallmey, A. Singh, and O. P. Ward, Can. J. Microbiol. 50:1-17, 2004). However, research and application of B. licheniformis strains are adversely affected by poor genetic accessibility. Thus, for a closer inspection of natural competence in B. licheniformis, the genome of strain 9945A, of which derivatives are known to be naturally competent (C. B. Thorne and H. B. Stull, J. Bacteriol. 91:1012-1020, 1966), was completely sequenced and manually annotated.