Draft Genome Sequence of Micrococcus sp. Strain MS-AsIII-49, an Arsenate-Reducing Isolate from Tropical Metal-Rich Sediment

Patrícia S Costa; Diogo A Tschoeke; Bruno S O Silva; Fabiano Thompson; Mariana P Reis; Edmar Chartone-Souza; Andréa M A Nascimento

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00122-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Micrococcus sp. Strain MS-AsIII-49, an Arsenate-Reducing Isolate from Tropical Metal-Rich Sediment

Genome Announc. 2015 Apr 16;3(2):e00122-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00122-15.

Authors

Patrícia S Costa¹, Diogo A Tschoeke², Bruno S O Silva², Fabiano Thompson², Mariana P Reis¹, Edmar Chartone-Souza¹, Andréa M A Nascimento³

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
² Laboratório de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³ Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil amaral@ufmg.br.

Abstract

Micrococcus sp. strain MS-AsIII-49, which was isolated from a tropical metal-polluted stream sediment in Brazil, has the ability to reduce AsV to AsIII. Analysis of its draft genome revealed 186 contigs with a total size of 2,440,924 bp encoding several metal resistance genes.