Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of the Alkane-Synthesizing Polar Cyanobacterium Pseudanabaena biceps Strain O-153

Bérangère Péquin; Julien Tremblay; Christine Maynard; Jessica Wasserscheid; Charles W Greer

doi:10.1128/MRA.00904-20

Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of the Alkane-Synthesizing Polar Cyanobacterium Pseudanabaena biceps Strain O-153

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Nov 19;9(47):e00904-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00904-20.

Authors

Bérangère Péquin¹, Julien Tremblay², Christine Maynard², Jessica Wasserscheid², Charles W Greer^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ McGill University, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada berangere.pequin@mcgill.ca.
² Energy, Mining and Environment Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
³ McGill University, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada.

Abstract

Alkane biosynthesis by polar cyanobacteria has not yet been reported. We present here the draft whole-genome sequence of an alkane-synthesizing polar cyanobacterium, Pseudanabaena biceps strain O-153. The genes coding for the two key enzymes involved in the alkane biosynthetic pathway were found contiguously in the genome.