High Quality Draft Genomes of the Type Strains Geobacillus thermocatenulatus DSM 730T, G. uzenensis DSM 23175T And Parageobacillus galactosidasius DSM 18751T

Winnie Thabisa Ramaloko; Nadine Koen; Shamara Polliack; Habibu Aliyu; Pedro Humberto Lebre; Teresa Mohr; Florian Oswald; Michaela Zwick; Daniel Ray Zeigler; Anke Neumann; Christoph Syldatk; Don Arthur Cowan; Pieter De Maayer

doi:10.7150/jgen.22986

High Quality Draft Genomes of the Type Strains Geobacillus thermocatenulatus DSM 730^T, G. uzenensis DSM 23175^T And Parageobacillus galactosidasius DSM 18751^T

J Genomics. 2018 Feb 3:6:20-23. doi: 10.7150/jgen.22986. eCollection 2018.

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
² Section II: Technical Biology, Institute of Process engineering in Life Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
³ Bacillus Genetic Stock Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁴ School of Molecular & Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Abstract

The thermophilic 'Geobacilli' are important sources of thermostable enzymes and other biotechnologically relevant macromolecules. The present work reports the high quality draft genome sequences of previously unsequenced type strains of Geobacillus uzenensis (DSM 23175^T), G. thermocatenulatus (DSM 730^T) and Parageobacillus galactosidasius (DSM 18751^T). Phylogenomic analyses revealed that DSM 18751^T and DSM 23175^T represent later heterotypic synonyms of P. toebii and G. subterraneus, respectively, while DSM 730^T represents the type strain for the species G. thermocatenulatus. These genome sequences will contribute towards a deeper understanding of the ecological and biological diversity and the biotechnological exploitation of the 'geobacilli'.

Keywords: Firmicutes; Geobacillus; Illumina HiSeq sequencing; Parageobacillus; phylogenomics; thermophile.