Draft Genome Sequences of Fungus Aspergillus calidoustus

Fabian Horn; Jörg Linde; Derek J Mattern; Grit Walther; Reinhard Guthke; Kirstin Scherlach; Karin Martin; Axel A Brakhage; Lutz Petzke; Vito Valiante

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00102-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Fungus Aspergillus calidoustus

Genome Announc. 2016 Mar 10;4(2):e00102-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00102-16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany.
² Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, HKI, Jena, Germany Institute for Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
³ National Reference Center for Invasive Fungal Infections, HKI, Jena, Germany.
⁴ Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, HKI, Jena, Germany.
⁵ BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
⁶ Bio Pilot Plant, HKI, Jena, Germany.
⁷ Leibniz Junior Research Group-Biobricks of Microbial Natural Product Syntheses, HKI, Jena, Germany vito.valiante@leibniz-hki.de.

Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Aspergillus calidoustus (strain SF006504). The functional annotation of A. calidoustus predicts a relatively large number of secondary metabolite gene clusters. The presented genome sequence builds the basis for further genome mining.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by BASF SE (Ludwigshafen) and the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany. J.L. work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) CRC/Transregio 124 "Pathogenic fungi and their human host: networks of interaction," project INF. D.J.M. was supported by the DFG-funded excellence graduate school Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC).