Whole genome sequencing of Microbacterium sp. AISO3 from polluted San Jacinto River sediment reveals high bacterial mobility, metabolic versatility and heavy metal resistance

Rupa Iyer; Ashish Damania; Brian Iken

doi:10.1016/j.gdata.2017.07.009

Whole genome sequencing of Microbacterium sp. AISO3 from polluted San Jacinto River sediment reveals high bacterial mobility, metabolic versatility and heavy metal resistance

Genom Data. 2017 Jul 20:14:10-13. doi: 10.1016/j.gdata.2017.07.009. eCollection 2017 Dec.

Authors

Rupa Iyer¹, Ashish Damania², Brian Iken¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Life Sciences Technology, Department of Engineering Technology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
² Department of Tropical Medicine-Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

Abstract

The genus Microbacterium is composed of high GC content, Gram-positive bacteria of the phylum Acintobacteria known for their antibiotic production. Microbacterium species commonly colonize agricultural rhizospheres and more infrequently have been found to colonize and infect human tissues as well. Here we report the 3,696,310 bp draft genome (chromosome and plasmids) sequence assembled at the scaffold level from 232 contigs of Microbacterium sp. strain AISO3, isolated from polluted San Jacinto River sediment in Channelview, Texas. The nucleotide sequence of this genome was deposited into NCBI GenBank under the accession NHRF00000000.