The Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of the Antibiotic Producer Empedobacter haloabium ATCC 31962 Provides Indications for Its Taxonomic Reclassification

Henrike Miess; Patricia Arlt; Alexander Kristian Apel; Tilmann Weber; Kay Nieselt; Friederike Hanssen; Stefan Czemmel; Sven Nahnsen; Harald Gross

doi:10.1128/MRA.01120-19

The Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of the Antibiotic Producer Empedobacter haloabium ATCC 31962 Provides Indications for Its Taxonomic Reclassification

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Nov 7;8(45):e01120-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01120-19.

Authors

Henrike Miess¹, Patricia Arlt¹, Alexander Kristian Apel¹, Tilmann Weber², Kay Nieselt³, Friederike Hanssen⁴, Stefan Czemmel⁴, Sven Nahnsen⁴, Harald Gross^{5

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
² The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
³ Integrative Transcriptomics, Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁴ Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁵ Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Pharmaceutical Institute, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany harald.gross@uni-tuebingen.de.
⁶ German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Abstract

Strain ATCC 31962 was formerly taxonomically classified as Empedobacter haloabium and reported to be the producer of the lipopeptide antibiotic empedopeptin. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of ATCC 31962, which encodes regions that suggest a distinct biosynthetic capacity and suggests its taxonomic reclassification.