Complete genome sequence of the halophilic and highly halotolerant Chromohalobacter salexigens type strain (1H11T)

Alex Copeland, Kathleen O'Connor, Susan Lucas, Alla Lapidus, Kerrie Berry, John C. Detter, Tijana Glavina Del Rio, Nancy Hammon, Eileen Dalin, Hope Tice, Sam Pitluck, David Bruce, Lynne Goodwin, Cliff Han, Roxanne Tapia, Elizabeth Saunders, Jeremy Schmutz, Thomas Brettin, Frank Larimer, Miriam Land, Loren Hauser, Carmen Vargas, Joaquin J. Nieto, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, Markus Göker, Hans-Peter Klenk, Laszlo N. Csonka, Tanja Woyke

Abstract


Chromohalobacter salexigens is one of nine currently known species of the genus Chromohalobacter in the family Halomonadaceae. It is the most halotolerant of the so-called ‘moderately halophilic bacteria’ currently known and, due to its strong euryhaline phenotype, it is an established model organism for prokaryotic osmoadaptation. C. salexigens strain 1H1 1T and Halomonas elongata are the first and the second members of the family Halomonadaceae with a completely sequenced genome. The 3,696,649 bp long chromosome with a total of 3,319 protein-coding and 93 RNA genes was sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute Program DOEM 2004.

doi:10.4056/sigs.2285059

Keywords


aerobic, chemoorganotrophic, Gram-negative, motile, moderately halophilic, halotolerant, ectoine synthesis, Halomonadaceae, Gammaproteobacteria, DOEM 2004

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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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