Draft Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus sciuri Strain LCHXa, a Lithium-Tolerant Bacterium Isolated from Laguna Chaxa, Salar de Atacama, Chile

Claudia Vilo; Camila Salazar-Ardiles; Tamara N Caimanque; Qunfeng Dong; Nataly Flores; Alexandra Galetović; Jorge E Araya; Benito Gómez-Silva

doi:10.1128/MRA.01549-18

Draft Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus sciuri Strain LCHXa, a Lithium-Tolerant Bacterium Isolated from Laguna Chaxa, Salar de Atacama, Chile

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jan 24;8(4):e01549-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01549-18. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Authors

Claudia Vilo^{1

2}, Camila Salazar-Ardiles^{1

2}, Tamara N Caimanque^{1

2}, Qunfeng Dong³, Nataly Flores^{1

2}, Alexandra Galetović^{1

2}, Jorge E Araya^{4

2}, Benito Gómez-Silva^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Biochemistry Laboratory, Biomedical Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile.
² Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (CeBiB), Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile.
³ Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA.
⁴ Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, Medical Technology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile.

Abstract

A Gram-positive, coagulase-negative, novobiocin resistant, and lithium-tolerant bacterium was isolated from Salar de Atacama. Strain LCHXa is closely related to Staphylococcus sciuri. Its genome is 3,013,090 bp long and contains 2,551 predicted protein genes. We observed 58 genes associated with stress response and 17 genes linked to osmoregulation, mainly related to glycine betaine metabolism.

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