Whole-Genome Sequence of the Anaerobic Isosaccharinic Acid Degrading Isolate, Macellibacteroides fermentans Strain HH-ZS

Simon P Rout; Zohier B Salah; Christopher J Charles; Paul N Humphreys

doi:10.1093/gbe/evx151

Whole-Genome Sequence of the Anaerobic Isosaccharinic Acid Degrading Isolate, Macellibacteroides fermentans Strain HH-ZS

Genome Biol Evol. 2017 Aug 1;9(8):2140-2144. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evx151.

Authors

Simon P Rout¹, Zohier B Salah¹, Christopher J Charles¹, Paul N Humphreys¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

Abstract

The ability of micro-organisms to degrade isosaccharinic acids (ISAs) while tolerating hyperalkaline conditions is pivotal to our understanding of the biogeochemistry associated within these environs, but also in scenarios pertaining to the cementitious disposal of radioactive wastes. An alkalitolerant, ISA degrading micro-organism was isolated from the hyperalkaline soils resulting from lime depositions. Here, we report the first whole-genome sequence, ISA degradation profile and carbohydrate preoteome of a Macellibacteroides fermentans strain HH-ZS, 4.08 Mb in size, coding 3,241 proteins, 64 tRNA, and 1 rRNA.

Keywords: Bacteroidetes; Macellibacteroides fermentans; alkalitolerant; isosaccharinic acid; obligate anaerobe; whole-genome sequence.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anaerobiosis
Bacteroidetes / genetics*
Bacteroidetes / isolation & purification
Bacteroidetes / metabolism
Genome, Bacterial*
Phylogeny
Soil Microbiology
Sugar Acids / metabolism*

Substances

Sugar Acids
isosaccharinic acid