Whole-Genome Sequence and Fosfomycin Resistance of Bacillus sp. Strain G3(2015) Isolated from Seawater off the Coast of Malaysia

Xin-Yue Chan; Jian-Woon Chen; Tan-Guan-Sheng Adrian; Kar-Wai Hong; Chien-Yi Chang; Wai-Fong Yin; Kok-Gan Chan

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00067-17

Whole-Genome Sequence and Fosfomycin Resistance of Bacillus sp. Strain G3(2015) Isolated from Seawater off the Coast of Malaysia

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 30;5(13):e00067-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00067-17.

Authors

Xin-Yue Chan¹, Jian-Woon Chen^{1

2}, Tan-Guan-Sheng Adrian¹, Kar-Wai Hong¹, Chien-Yi Chang^{3

4}, Wai-Fong Yin¹, Kok-Gan Chan^{5

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
² UM Omics Centre, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
³ Institute of Life and Earth Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
⁴ Guangzhou Institute of Pediatrics, Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
⁵ Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia kokgan@um.edu.my.

Abstract

Bacillus sp. is a Gram-positive bacterium that is commonly found in seawater. In this study, the genome of marine Bacillus sp. strain G3(2015) was sequenced using MiSeq. The fosfomycin resistant gene fosB was identified upon bacterial genome annotation.