Whole-Genome Sequence of the Microcystin-Degrading Bacterium Sphingopyxis sp. Strain C-1

Kunihiro Okano; Kazuya Shimizu; Hideaki Maseda; Yukio Kawauchi; Motoo Utsumi; Tomoaki Itayama; Zhenya Zhang; Norio Sugiura

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00838-15

Whole-Genome Sequence of the Microcystin-Degrading Bacterium Sphingopyxis sp. Strain C-1

Genome Announc. 2015 Jul 30;3(4):e00838-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00838-15.

Authors

Kunihiro Okano¹, Kazuya Shimizu², Hideaki Maseda³, Yukio Kawauchi⁴, Motoo Utsumi⁵, Tomoaki Itayama⁶, Zhenya Zhang⁵, Norio Sugiura⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Environment, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita City, Akita, Japan k_okano@akita-pu.ac.jp.
² Faculty of Life Sciences, Toyo University, Gunma, Japan.
³ Department of Biological Science & Technology, Institute of Technology and Science, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan.
⁴ MC Evolve Technologies Corporation, Ibaraki, Japan.
⁵ Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
⁶ Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
⁷ Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Technologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Abstract

This report describes the whole-genome sequence of an alkalitolerant microcystin-degrading bacterium, Sphingopyxis sp. strain C-1, isolated from a lake in China.