Genome Sequence of the Acidophilic Nonsulfur Purple Photosynthetic Alphaproteobacterium Rhodovastum atsumiense, a Divergent Member of the Acetobacteraceae Family

Dayana Montano Salama; Terry E Meyer; John A Kyndt

doi:10.1128/MRA.01541-19

Genome Sequence of the Acidophilic Nonsulfur Purple Photosynthetic Alphaproteobacterium Rhodovastum atsumiense, a Divergent Member of the Acetobacteraceae Family

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Feb 6;9(6):e01541-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01541-19.

Authors

Dayana Montano Salama¹, Terry E Meyer², John A Kyndt³

Affiliations

¹ College of Science and Technology, Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska, USA.
² Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
³ College of Science and Technology, Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska, USA jkyndt@bellevue.edu.

Abstract

The genome sequence of the acidophile Rhodovastum atsumiense was determined for comparison with that of Rhodopila globiformis Both genomes are unusually large for purple bacteria (7.10 Mb and 7.25 Mb, respectively), and they have an average nucleotide identity of 72%. This value is remarkably similar to the average nucleotide identity values for Acidisphaera, Elioraea, and Paracraurococcus, all aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs.