Draft Nuclear Genome Sequence of the Halophilic and Beta-Carotene-Accumulating Green Alga Dunaliella salina Strain CCAP19/18

Juergen E W Polle; Kerrie Barry; John Cushman; Jeremy Schmutz; Duc Tran; Leyla T Hathwaik; Won C Yim; Jerry Jenkins; Zaid McKie-Krisberg; Simon Prochnik; Erika Lindquist; Rhyan B Dockter; Catherine Adam; Henrik Molina; Jakob Bunkenborg; EonSeon Jin; Mark Buchheim; Jon Magnuson

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01105-17

Draft Nuclear Genome Sequence of the Halophilic and Beta-Carotene-Accumulating Green Alga Dunaliella salina Strain CCAP19/18

Genome Announc. 2017 Oct 26;5(43):e01105-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01105-17.

Authors

Juergen E W Polle^{1

2}, Kerrie Barry³, John Cushman⁴, Jeremy Schmutz^{3

5}, Duc Tran⁶, Leyla T Hathwaik⁴, Won C Yim⁴, Jerry Jenkins⁵, Zaid McKie-Krisberg⁶, Simon Prochnik³, Erika Lindquist³, Rhyan B Dockter³, Catherine Adam³, Henrik Molina⁷, Jakob Bunkenborg⁸, EonSeon Jin⁹, Mark Buchheim¹⁰, Jon Magnuson¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA jpolle@brooklyn.cuny.edu.
² The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York, USA.
³ Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁴ University of Nevada, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Reno, Nevada, USA.
⁵ HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
⁶ Department of Biology, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
⁷ The Proteomics Resource Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.
⁸ Alphalyse A/S, Odense, Denmark.
⁹ Department of Life Science, Hanyang University, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
¹⁰ Biological Science, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
¹¹ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.

Abstract

The halotolerant alga Dunaliella salina is a model for stress tolerance and is used commercially for production of beta-carotene (=pro-vitamin A). The presented draft genome of the genuine strain CCAP19/18 will allow investigations into metabolic processes involved in regulation of stress responses, including carotenogenesis and adaptations to life in high-salinity environments.