Complete Genome Sequences of Evolved Arsenate-Resistant Metallosphaera sedula Strains

Chenbing Ai; Samuel McCarthy; Wendy Schackwitz; Joel Martin; Anna Lipzen; Paul Blum

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01142-15

Complete Genome Sequences of Evolved Arsenate-Resistant Metallosphaera sedula Strains

Genome Announc. 2015 Oct 1;3(5):e01142-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01142-15.

Authors

Chenbing Ai¹, Samuel McCarthy², Wendy Schackwitz³, Joel Martin³, Anna Lipzen³, Paul Blum⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA School Of Minerals Processing and Bioengineering, Central South University, Hunan, China.
² School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
³ U.S. Department of Energy-Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁴ School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA pblum1@unl.edu.

Abstract

Metallosphaera sedula is a thermoacidophilic crenarchaeote with a 2.19-Mb genome. Here, we report the genome sequences of several evolved derivatives of M. sedula generated through adaptive laboratory evolution for enhanced arsenate resistance.