Complete genome sequence of Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus strain AHT2(T), a haloalkaliphilic sulfidogen from Egyptian hypersaline alkaline lakes

Emily Denise Melton; Dimitry Y Sorokin; Lex Overmars; Olga Chertkov; Alicia Clum; Manoj Pillay; Natalia Ivanova; Nicole Shapiro; Nikos C Kyrpides; Tanja Woyke; Alla L Lapidus; Gerard Muyzer

doi:10.1186/s40793-016-0184-4

Complete genome sequence of Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus strain AHT2(T), a haloalkaliphilic sulfidogen from Egyptian hypersaline alkaline lakes

Stand Genomic Sci. 2016 Sep 8;11(1):67. doi: 10.1186/s40793-016-0184-4. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Microbial Systems Ecology, Department of Aquatic Microbiology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Centre of Biotechnology, RAS, Moscow, Russia ; Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
³ Bioscience Division, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA.
⁴ Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA.
⁵ Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA.
⁶ Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA USA ; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Abstract

Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus strain AHT2(T) is a strictly anaerobic sulfidogenic haloalkaliphile isolated from a composite sediment sample of eight hypersaline alkaline lakes in the Wadi al Natrun valley in the Egyptian Libyan Desert. D. alkaliphilus AHT2(T) is Gram-negative and belongs to the family Desulfobulbaceae within the Deltaproteobacteria. Here we report its genome sequence, which contains a 3.10 Mbp chromosome. D. alkaliphilus AHT2(T) is adapted to survive under highly alkaline and moderately saline conditions and therefore, is relevant to the biotechnology industry and life under extreme conditions. For these reasons, D. alkaliphilus AHT2(T) was sequenced by the DOE Joint Genome Institute as part of the Community Science Program.

Keywords: Deltaproteobacteria; Sediment; Soda lake; Sulfur cycle; Sulfur disproportionation.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

322551/ERC_/European Research Council/International