Title |
Complete genome sequence of Deinococcus maricopensis type strain (LB-34T)
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Published in |
Environmental Microbiome, April 2011
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DOI | 10.4056/sigs.1633949 |
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Authors |
Rüdiger Pukall, Ahmet Zeytun, Susan Lucas, Alla Lapidus, Nancy Hammon, Shweta Deshpande, Matt Nolan, Jan-Fang Cheng, Sam Pitluck, Konstantinos Liolios, Ioanna Pagani, Natalia Mikhailova, Natalia Ivanova, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Amrita Pati, Roxane Tapia, Cliff Han, Lynne Goodwin, Amy Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Miriam Land, Loren Hauser, Yun-Juan Chang, Cynthia D. Jeffries, Evelyne-Marie Brambilla, Manfred Rohde, Markus Göker, J. Chris Detter, Tanja Woyke, James Bristow, Jonathan A. Eisen, Victor Markowitz, Philip Hugenholtz, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Hans-Peter Klenk |
Abstract |
Deinococcus maricopensis (Rainey and da Costa 2005) is a member of the genus Deinococcus, which is comprised of 44 validly named species and is located within the deeply branching bacterial phylum Deinococcus-Thermus. Strain LB-34(T) was isolated from a soil sample from the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. Various species of the genus Deinococcus are characterized by extreme radiation resistance, with D. maricopensis being resistant in excess of 10 kGy. Even though the genomes of three Deinococcus species, D. radiodurans, D. geothermalis and D. deserti, have already been published, no special physiological characteristic is currently known that is unique to this group. It is therefore of special interest to analyze the genomes of additional species of the genus Deinococcus to better understand how these species adapted to gamma- or UV ionizing-radiation. The 3,498,530 bp long genome of D. maricopensis with its 3,301 protein-coding and 66 RNA genes consists of one circular chromosome and is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project. |
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