Complete genome sequence of Haliangium ochraceum type strain (SMP-2T)

Natalia Ivanova, Chris Daum, Elke Lang, Birte Abt, Marcus Kopitz, Elizabeth Saunders, Alla Lapidus, Susan Lucas, Tijana Glavina Del Rio, Matt Nolan, Hope Tice, Alex Copeland, Jan-Fang Cheng, David Bruce, Lynne Goodwin, Sam Pitluck, Amy Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Miriam Land, Loren Hauser, Yun-Juan Chang, Cynthia D. Jeffries, John C. Detter, Thomas Brettin, Manfred Rohde, Markus Göker, James Bristow, Jonathan A. Eisen, Victor Markowitz, Philip Hugenholtz, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Hans-Peter Klenk

Abstract


Haliangium ocharaceum Fudou et al. 2002 is the type species of the genus Haliangium in the myxococcal family ‘Haliangiaceae’. Members of the genus Haliangium are the very first halophilic myxobacterial taxa described. Following a multicellular lifestyle in highly organized biofilms, called swarms, they decompose bacterial and yeast cells as most myxobacteria do. The fruiting bodies contain particularly small coccoid myxospores. H. ochraceum encodes the first actin homologue identified in a bacterial genome. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the complete genome sequence, and annotation. This is the first complete genome sequence of a member of the myxococcal suborder Nannocystineae, and the 9,446,314 bp long single replicon genome with its 6,898 protein-coding and 53 RNA genes is part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project

DOI:10.4056/sigs.69.1277

Keywords


aerobic, gliding, myxobacteria, fruiting bodies, moderately halophilic, mesophile, Gram-negative, decomposition of bacterial and yeast cells, GEBA.

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We would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of many members of the Genomic Standards Consortium, the broader genomic science community, and those who have indicated their willingness to serve as editors, reviewers and contributors.

Funding for SIGS is provided by a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at Michigan State University, the Michigan State University Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research DE-FG02-08ER64707.

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