Draft genome sequence of marine alphaproteobacterial strain HIMB11, the first cultivated representative of a unique lineage within the Roseobacter clade possessing an unusually small genome

  • Bryndan P. Durham
  • , Jana Grote
  • , Kerry A. Whittaker
  • , Sara J. Bender
  • , Haiwei Luo
  • , Sharon L. Grim
  • , Julia M. Brown
  • , John R. Casey
  • , Antony Dron
  • , Lennin Florez-Leiva
  • , Andreas Krupke
  • , Catherine M. Luria
  • , Aric H. Mine
  • , Olivia D. Nigro
  • , Santhiska Pather
  • , Agathe Talarmin
  • , Emma K. Wear
  • , Thomas S. Weber
  • , Jesse M. Wilson
  • , Matthew J. Church
  • Edward F. DeLong, David M. Karl, Grieg F. Steward, John M. Eppley, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Stephan Schuster, Michael S. Rappé

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Abstract

Strain HIMB11 is a planktonic marine bacterium isolated from coastal seawater in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii belonging to the ubiquitous and versatile Roseobacter clade of the alphaproteobacterial family Rhodobacteraceae. Here we describe the preliminary characteristics of strain HIMB11, including annotation of the draft genome sequence and comparative genomic analysis with other members of the Roseobacter lineage. The 3,098,747 bp draft genome is arranged in 34 contigs and contains 3,183 protein-coding genes and 54 RNA genes. Phylogenomic and 16S rRNA gene analyses indicate that HIMB11 represents a unique sublineage within the Roseobacter clade. Comparison with other publicly available genome sequences from members of the Roseobacter lineage reveals that strain HIMB11 has the genomic potential to utilize a wide variety of energy sources (e.g. organic matter, reduced inorganic sulfur, light, carbon monoxide), while possessing a reduced number of substrate transporters.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)632-645
Number of pages14
JournalStandards in Genomic Sciences
Volume9
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 30 2015

Funding

We thank the entire C-MORE staff and visiting scientists for support and instruction during the 2011 Summer Course in Microbial Oceanography. Dr. Mary Ann Moran at the University of Georgia provided invaluable instruction on Roseobacter genomics and bioinformatic analyses. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which funded the sequencing of this genome. Annotation was performed as part of the 2011 C-MORE

Funder number
0424599

    Keywords

    • Aerobic anoxygenic phototroph
    • Dimethylsulfoniopropionate
    • Marine bacterioplankton
    • Roseobacter

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