Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus opacus Strain R7, a Biodegrader of Mono- and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

P Di Gennaro; J Zampolli; I Presti; M Cappelletti; P D'Ursi; A Orro; A Mezzelani; L Milanesi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00827-14

Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus opacus Strain R7, a Biodegrader of Mono- and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Genome Announc. 2014 Aug 21;2(4):e00827-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00827-14.

Authors

P Di Gennaro¹, J Zampolli², I Presti², M Cappelletti³, P D'Ursi⁴, A Orro⁴, A Mezzelani⁴, L Milanesi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy patrizia.digennaro@unimib.it.
² Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
⁴ CNR, Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Segrate, Italy.

Abstract

Rhodococcus opacus strain R7 (CIP107348) degrades several mono- and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Here, we present the high-quality draft genome sequence of strain R7, consisting of 10,118,052 bp, with a G+C content of 67.0%, 9,602 protein-coding genes, and 62 RNAs genes.