Genome Sequence of Clostridium acetobutylicum GXAS18-1, a Novel Biobutanol Production Strain

Xinchun Mo; Jianxin Pei; Yuan Guo; Lihua Lin; Lixin Peng; Chan Kou; Danmin Fan; Hao Pang

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00033-15

Genome Sequence of Clostridium acetobutylicum GXAS18-1, a Novel Biobutanol Production Strain

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 5;3(2):e00033-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00033-15.

Authors

Xinchun Mo, Jianxin Pei¹, Yuan Guo¹, Lihua Lin¹, Lixin Peng², Chan Kou², Danmin Fan², Hao Pang³

Affiliations

¹ National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
² Department of Life Science, Lijiang Teacher's College, Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
³ National Engineering Research Center for Non-Food Biorefinery, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning, Guangxi, China haopang@gxas.cn.

Abstract

Clostridium acetobutylicum is an organism involved in the production of acetone and butanol by traditional acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation (ABE). We report the draft genome sequence of C. acetobutylicum strain GXAS18-1, which can produce ABE directly from cassava flour.