Draft Genome Sequence of the Toxic Freshwater Microcystis aeruginosa Strain PMC 728.11 (Cyanobacteria, Chroococcales)

Sébastien Halary; Charlotte Duval; Alison Gallet; Sébastien Duperron; Bérénice Piquet; Justine Demay; Cécile Bernard; Benjamin Marie

doi:10.1128/MRA.01096-20

Draft Genome Sequence of the Toxic Freshwater Microcystis aeruginosa Strain PMC 728.11 (Cyanobacteria, Chroococcales)

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Nov 25;9(48):e01096-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01096-20.

Authors

Sébastien Halary¹, Charlotte Duval¹, Alison Gallet¹, Sébastien Duperron¹, Bérénice Piquet¹, Justine Demay¹, Cécile Bernard¹, Benjamin Marie²

Affiliations

¹ UMR 7245 MCAM MNHN-CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
² UMR 7245 MCAM MNHN-CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France bmarie@mnhn.fr.

Abstract

Microcystis aeruginosa is one of the major species that cause toxic cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater systems worldwide. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of M. aeruginosa PMC 728.11, a microcystin-producing cyanobacterium isolated from the freshwater reservoir of Juanon in Valence, France. The genome sequence contains 276 contigs, consisting of 5,536,025 bp and 5,594 putative protein-coding genes, among which are several biosynthetic gene clusters encoding enzyme complexes involved in the production of various bioactive and toxic metabolites.