Draft Genome Sequence of Hymenobacter sp. Strain AT01-02, Isolated from a Surface Soil Sample in the Atacama Desert, Chile

Anders Cai Holm Hansen; Ivan Glaucio Paulino-Lima; Kosuke Fujishima; Lynn Justine Rothschild; Peter Ruhdal Jensen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01701-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Hymenobacter sp. Strain AT01-02, Isolated from a Surface Soil Sample in the Atacama Desert, Chile

Genome Announc. 2016 Feb 11;4(1):e01701-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01701-15.

Authors

Anders Cai Holm Hansen¹, Ivan Glaucio Paulino-Lima², Kosuke Fujishima³, Lynn Justine Rothschild⁴, Peter Ruhdal Jensen⁵

Affiliations

¹ Microbial Biotechnology & Biorefining, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark achh@food.dtu.dk.
² NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
³ University Affiliated Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
⁴ NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
⁵ Microbial Biotechnology & Biorefining, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.

Abstract

Here, we report the 5.09-Mb draft genome sequence of Hymenobacter sp. strain AT01-02, which was isolated from a surface soil sample in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The isolate is extremely resistant to UV-C radiation and is able to accumulate high intracellular levels of Mn/Fe.