Draft genome of methanol-oxidizing Methylobacterium fujisawaense strain LAC1

Jooho Chung; Jinha Kim; John C Blazier; Myung Hwangbo; Kung-Hui Chu

doi:10.1128/MRA.00331-23

Draft genome of methanol-oxidizing Methylobacterium fujisawaense strain LAC1

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023 Oct 19;12(10):e0033123. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00331-23. Epub 2023 Sep 20.

Authors

Jooho Chung¹, Jinha Kim¹, John C Blazier², Myung Hwangbo^{1

3}, Kung-Hui Chu¹

Affiliations

¹ Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
² Texas A&M Institute for Genome Sciences and Society, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
³ School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Sciences, The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas, USA.

Abstract

We report the draft genome of Methylobacterium fujisawaense LAC1 isolated from an acidic aquifer in Indian Head, MD, USA. The genome contains 5,883,000 bp and has a GC content of 70% with 5,434 protein-encoding genes with functional assignments. This strain can grow on methanol with lanthanum, a rare earth element.

Keywords: Methylobacterium fujisawaense; acidophiles; methanol oxidation; rare earth elements.