Complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium sp. strain (Spyr1) and reclassification to Mycobacterium gilvum Spyr1

Aristeidis Kallimanis, Eugenia Karabika, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Alla Lapidus, Kurt M. LaButti, Konstantinos Liolios, Natalia Ivanova, Lynne Goodwin, Tanja Woyke, Athanasios D. Velentzas, Angelos Perisynakis, Christos C. Ouzounis, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Anna I. Koukkou, Constantin Drainas

Abstract


Strain Spyr1 is a new strain of Mycobacterium sp. isolated from a creosote contaminated site in Greece by an enrichment method using pyrene as sole carbon and energy source and is capable of degrading a wide range of PAH substrates including pyrene, fluoranthene, fluorene, anthracene and acenapthene. Here we describe the genomic features of this organism, together with the complete sequence and annotation. The genome consists of a 5,547,747 bp chromosome and two plasmids, a larger and a smaller one with sizes of 211,864 and 23,681 bp, respectively. In total, 5,588 genes were predicted and annotated.

doi:10.4056/sigs.2265047


Keywords


Mycobacterium gilvum, PAH biodegradation, pyrene degradation.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of many members of the Genomic Standards Consortium, the broader genomic science community, and those who have indicated their willingness to serve as editors, reviewers and contributors.

Funding for SIGS is provided by a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University, the Michigan State University Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research DE-FG02-08ER64707.

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