Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus sp. Strain UFRGS-B20, a Hydrocarbon Degrader

Patricia Dörr de Quadros; Roberta Fulthorpe; Rosemary Saati; Vanessa Cerqueira; Fátima Menezes Bento

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00052-18

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus sp. Strain UFRGS-B20, a Hydrocarbon Degrader

Genome Announc. 2018 Feb 22;6(8):e00052-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00052-18.

Authors

Patricia Dörr de Quadros^{1

2}, Roberta Fulthorpe², Rosemary Saati², Vanessa Cerqueira³, Fátima Menezes Bento³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Microbiology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil patiquadros@icloud.com.
² Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Environmental Microbiology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Abstract

Bacillus sp. strain UFRGS-B20 was isolated in 2012 from Brazilian land-farming soil contaminated with petrochemical oily sludge. This strain was subjected to hydrocarbon biodegradation tests, showing degradation rates of up to 60%. Here, we present the 6.82-Mb draft genome sequence of the strain, which contains 2,178 proteins with functional assignments.