Draft Genome Sequences of Lactobacillales Isolated from the International Space Station

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

doi:10.1128/MRA.00942-20

Draft Genome Sequences of Lactobacillales Isolated from the International Space Station

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Sep 24;9(39):e00942-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00942-20.

Authors

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

3}, Fathi Karouia^{4

5}, Christopher E Mason⁶, Kasthuri Venkateswaran⁷

Affiliations

¹ Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
² Biotia, New York, New York, USA.
³ Department 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 The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA kjvenkat@jpl.nasa.gov.

Abstract

Nineteen strains from the order Lactobacillales were isolated from the International Space Station and commercial resupply vehicle, and whole-genome sequences (WGS) were generated. WGS would permit the characterization of these potentially pathogenic bacteria that have been adapting to the extreme conditions of the space environment.