Draft Genome Sequence of Arenibacter sp. Strain C-21, an Iodine-Accumulating Bacterium Isolated from Surface Marine Sediment

Kohei Ito; Nobuyoshi Nakajima; Shigeki Yamamura; Masaru Tomita; Haruo Suzuki; Seigo Amachi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01155-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Arenibacter sp. Strain C-21, an Iodine-Accumulating Bacterium Isolated from Surface Marine Sediment

Genome Announc. 2016 Oct 13;4(5):e01155-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01155-16.

Authors

Kohei Ito¹, Nobuyoshi Nakajima², Shigeki Yamamura³, Masaru Tomita¹, Haruo Suzuki⁴, Seigo Amachi⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan.
² Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
³ Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Center for Regional Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
⁴ Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan haruo@sfc.keio.ac.jp amachi@faculty.chiba-u.jp.
⁵ Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, Matsudo City, Chiba, Japan haruo@sfc.keio.ac.jp amachi@faculty.chiba-u.jp.

Abstract

Arenibacter sp. strain C-21, isolated from surface marine sediment of Japan, accumulates iodine in the presence of glucose and iodide (I^-). We report here the draft genome sequence of this strain to provide insight into the molecular mechanism underlying its iodine-accumulating ability.