Draft Genome Sequences of Four Thermophilic Spore Formers Isolated from a Dairy-Processing Environment

Martien P M Caspers; Jos Boekhorst; Anne de Jong; Remco Kort; Masja Nierop Groot; Tjakko Abee

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00757-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Four Thermophilic Spore Formers Isolated from a Dairy-Processing Environment

Genome Announc. 2016 Aug 11;4(4):e00757-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00757-16.

Authors

Martien P M Caspers¹, Jos Boekhorst², Anne de Jong³, Remco Kort⁴, Masja Nierop Groot⁵, Tjakko Abee⁶

Affiliations

¹ Top Institute (TI) Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands TNO, Microbiology and Systems Biology, Zeist, The Netherlands.
² Top Institute (TI) Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands NIZO food research, Ede, The Netherlands.
³ Top Institute (TI) Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands Molecular Genetics, Rijks Universiteit Groningen (RUG), Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁴ Top Institute (TI) Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands TNO, Microbiology and Systems Biology, Zeist, The Netherlands Molecular Cell Physiology, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ Top Institute (TI) Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁶ Top Institute (TI) Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands tjakko.abee@wur.nl.

Abstract

Spores of thermophilic spore-forming bacteria are a common cause of contamination in dairy products. Here, we report draft genome sequences of four thermophilic strains from a milk-processing plant or standard milk, namely, a Geobacillus thermoglucosidans isolate (TNO-09.023), Geobacillus stearothermophilus TNO-09.027, and two Anoxybacillus flavithermus isolates (TNO-09.014 and TNO-09.016).