Complete Genome Sequence of the Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid-Producing Strain Streptococcus thermophilus APC151

Daniel M Linares; Silvia Arboleya; R Paul Ross; Catherine Stanton

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00205-17

Complete Genome Sequence of the Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid-Producing Strain Streptococcus thermophilus APC151

Genome Announc. 2017 Apr 27;5(17):e00205-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00205-17.

Authors

Daniel M Linares^{1

2}, Silvia Arboleya^{3

2}, R Paul Ross^{3

2

4}, Catherine Stanton^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Food Biosciences Department, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland Daniel.Linares@teagasc.ie.
² APC, Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
³ Food Biosciences Department, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland.
⁴ School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Abstract

Here is presented the whole-genome sequence of Streptococcus thermophilus APC151, isolated from a marine fish. This bacterium produces gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in high yields and is biotechnologically suitable to produce naturally GABA-enriched biofunctional yogurt. Its complete genome comprises 2,097 genes and 1,839,134 nucleotides, with an average G+C content of 39.1%.