Complete Genome Sequences of Two Acetylene-Fermenting Pelobacter acetylenicus Strains

John M Sutton; Shaun M Baesman; Janna L Fierst; Amisha T Poret-Peterson; Ronald S Oremland; Darren S Dunlap; Denise M Akob

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01572-16

Complete Genome Sequences of Two Acetylene-Fermenting Pelobacter acetylenicus Strains

Genome Announc. 2017 Feb 9;5(6):e01572-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01572-16.

Authors

John M Sutton¹, Shaun M Baesman², Janna L Fierst¹, Amisha T Poret-Peterson³, Ronald S Oremland², Darren S Dunlap³, Denise M Akob⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.
² U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program-Western Branch, Menlo Park, California, USA.
³ U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program-Eastern Branch, Reston, Virginia, USA.
⁴ U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program-Eastern Branch, Reston, Virginia, USA dakob@usgs.gov.

Abstract

Acetylene fermentation is a rare metabolism that was serendipitously discovered during C₂H₂-block assays of N₂O reductase. Here, we report the genome sequences of two type strains of acetylene-fermenting Pelobacter acetylenicus, the freshwater bacterium DSM 3246 and the estuarine bacterium DSM 3247.