Complete Genome Sequence of Sulfolobus solfataricus Strain 98/2 and Evolved Derivatives

Samuel McCarthy; Julien Gradnigo; Tyler Johnson; Sophie Payne; Anna Lipzen; Joel Martin; Wendy Schackwitz; Etsuko Moriyama; Paul Blum

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00549-15

Complete Genome Sequence of Sulfolobus solfataricus Strain 98/2 and Evolved Derivatives

Genome Announc. 2015 May 28;3(3):e00549-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00549-15.

Authors

Samuel McCarthy¹, Julien Gradnigo¹, Tyler Johnson¹, Sophie Payne¹, Anna Lipzen², Joel Martin², Wendy Schackwitz², Etsuko Moriyama, Paul Blum³

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
² U.S. Department of Energy-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
³ School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA pblum1@unl.edu.

Abstract

Sulfolobus solfataricus is a thermoacidophilic crenarcheote with a 3.0-Mb genome. Here, we report the genome sequence of S. solfataricus strain 98/2, along with several evolved derivatives generated through experimental microbial evolution for enhanced thermoacidophily.