Draft Genome Sequences of Enterobacteriales Strains Isolated from the International Space Station

Achintya R Bharadwaj; Robert Daudu; Nitin K Singh; Jason M Wood; Marilyne Debieu; Niamh B O'Hara; Fathi Karouia; Christopher E Mason; Kasthuri Venkateswaran

doi:10.1128/MRA.00817-20

Draft Genome Sequences of Enterobacteriales Strains Isolated from the International Space Station

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Sep 10;9(37):e00817-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00817-20.

Authors

Achintya R Bharadwaj¹, Robert Daudu¹, Nitin K Singh¹, Jason M Wood¹, Marilyne Debieu², Niamh B O'Hara^{2

3}, Fathi Karouia^{4

5}, Christopher E Mason^{6

7}, Kasthuri Venkateswaran⁸

Affiliations

¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
² Biotia, New York, New York, USA.
³ Department of Cell Biology, College of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
⁴ Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Exobiology Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
⁵ Space Research Within Reach, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁶ WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁸ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA kjvenkat@jpl.nasa.gov.

Abstract

The whole-genome sequences of 26 strains isolated from the International Space Station were generated, and the strains were identified as being members of the order Enterobacteriales. Characterization of these whole-genome sequences might enable the identification of potential pathogenic bacteria that have been adapting to the space environment.