Draft Genome Sequences of Three Bacillus Species from South African Marine Sponges

Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl; Relebohile Matobole; Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe; Timothy Klein; Bronwyn Kirby; Marla Trindade

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00143-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Three Bacillus Species from South African Marine Sponges

Genome Announc. 2016 Apr 7;4(2):e00143-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00143-16.

Authors

Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl¹, Relebohile Matobole², Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe², Timothy Klein², Bronwyn Kirby², Marla Trindade²

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa vanzyllj@gmail.com.
² Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa.

Abstract

The rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria has spurred efforts to identify novel compounds with antimicrobial activity. This brief report describes the genome sequence of threeBacillusspecies isolates from South African marine sponges, which produce compounds with antimicrobial activity. A search for secondary metabolite clusters revealed several secondary metabolite pathways in these genomes, which may hold promise as novel antibiotics.