Insights into the Genome of the Anaerobic Acetogen Sporomusa silvacetica DSM 10669

Jonathan R Humphreys; Rolf Daniel; Anja Poehlein

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00983-17

Insights into the Genome of the Anaerobic Acetogen Sporomusa silvacetica DSM 10669

Genome Announc. 2017 Sep 21;5(38):e00983-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00983-17.

Authors

Jonathan R Humphreys¹, Rolf Daniel², Anja Poehlein³

Affiliations

¹ Clostridia Research Group, BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC), School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
² Genomic and Applied Microbiology & Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
³ Genomic and Applied Microbiology & Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany apoehle3@gwdg.de.

Abstract

Sporomusa silvacetica is a spore-forming, anaerobic acetogen isolated from soil derived from east central Germany. The genome contains genes of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway required for carbon fixation and genes involved in the biosynthesis of the amino acid pyrrolysine. The genome (5.92 Mb) harbors 4,355 predicted protein-encoding genes.