The Draft Genome Sequence of a Novel High-Efficient Butanol-Producing Bacterium Clostridium Diolis Strain WST

Curr Microbiol. 2018 Aug;75(8):1011-1015. doi: 10.1007/s00284-018-1481-5. Epub 2018 Mar 21.

Abstract

A wild-type solventogenic strain Clostridium diolis WST, isolated from mangrove sediments, was characterized to produce high amount of butanol and acetone with negligible level of ethanol and acids from glucose via a unique acetone-butanol (AB) fermentation pathway. Through the genomic sequencing, the assembled draft genome of strain WST is calculated to be 5.85 Mb with a GC content of 29.69% and contains 5263 genes that contribute to the annotation of 5049 protein-coding sequences. Within these annotated genes, the butanol dehydrogenase gene (bdh) was determined to be in a higher amount from strain WST compared to other Clostridial strains, which is positively related to its high-efficient production of butanol. Therefore, we present a draft genome sequence analysis of strain WST in this article that should facilitate to further understand the solventogenic mechanism of this special microorganism.

MeSH terms

  • Acetone / metabolism*
  • Alcohol Oxidoreductases / genetics*
  • Base Composition
  • Base Sequence
  • Biofuels
  • Butanols / metabolism*
  • Clostridium / classification
  • Clostridium / genetics*
  • Clostridium / metabolism*
  • Genome, Bacterial / genetics*
  • Glucose / metabolism
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

  • Biofuels
  • Butanols
  • Acetone
  • Alcohol Oxidoreductases
  • butanol dehydrogenase
  • Glucose