Complete Genomic Sequence of the Thermophilic and Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen Methanothermobacter sp. Strain KEPCO-1

Byoung Seung Jeon; Hyunjin Kim; Young Wook Go; Young Gook Kim; Ji Sun Joo; Okkyoung Choi; Byoung-In Sang

doi:10.1128/MRA.01034-19

Complete Genomic Sequence of the Thermophilic and Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen Methanothermobacter sp. Strain KEPCO-1

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Jan 2;9(1):e01034-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01034-19.

Authors

Byoung Seung Jeon^#^{1

2}, Hyunjin Kim^#¹, Young Wook Go¹, Young Gook Kim³, Ji Sun Joo³, Okkyoung Choi⁴, Byoung-In Sang⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
² Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
³ Korea Electric Power Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea okgii77@hanyang.ac.kr biosang@hanyang.ac.kr.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Here, we describe the complete genome of Methanothermobacter sp. strain KEPCO-1, a thermophilic and hydrogenotrophic methanogen that was isolated from an anaerobic digester in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The genome of KEPCO-1 shares 96.98% of its sequence with Methanothermobacter marburgensis strain DSM 2133 and consists of 1,741,029 bp, with 1,822 protein-coding genes, 44 noncoding RNAs, and a GC content of 48.47%. The development of this genome will facilitate future genomic studies of KEPCO-1.