Draft Genome Sequence of Micrococcus luteus (Schroeter) Cohn (ATCC 12698)

Catherine Putonti; Evan Cudone; Laurynas Kalesinskas; Kathleen C Engelbrecht; David W Koenig; Alan J Wolfe

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00576-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Micrococcus luteus (Schroeter) Cohn (ATCC 12698)

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 6;5(27):e00576-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00576-17.

Authors

Catherine Putonti^{1

2

3

4}, Evan Cudone⁵, Laurynas Kalesinskas^{5

2}, Kathleen C Engelbrecht⁶, David W Koenig⁶, Alan J Wolfe⁴

Affiliations

¹ Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA cputonti@luc.edu.
² Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
³ Department of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA.
⁵ Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁶ Corporate Research and Engineering, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin, USA.

Abstract

The actinobacterium Micrococcus luteus can be found in a wide variety of habitats. Here, we report the 2,411,958-bp draft genome sequence of the type strain M. leuteus (Schroeter) Cohn (ATCC 12698). Characteristic of this taxa, the genome sequence has a high G+C content, 73.14%.