Genome description of a potentially new species of Streptomyces isolated from the Indian Sundarbans mangrove

Access Microbiol. 2024 Dec 16;6(12):000892.v5. doi: 10.1099/acmi.0.000892.v5. eCollection 2024.

Abstract

A potentially new species of Streptomyces was isolated from station 177 of the Sundarbans Seasonal Time Series in the Indian Sundarbans mangrove. The isolate was cultured from a sediment sample on TYS medium of salinity 15. Sequencing and annotation of the 16S rRNA showed 100% identity against S. laurentii NPS17 against GenBank/ENA/DDBJ. Annotation of the whole genome against the GTDB database showed closest identity with S. terrae SKN60 and belongs to the same clade as S. roseicoloratus TRM44457T and S. laurentii ATCC 31255. The genome is ~7.2 Mb and has a G+C% of 73%. The average amino acid identity was 85.01% with S. roseicoloratus and 80.34% with S. roseolus. The assembly reflected the presence of all essential genes and had 19 biosynthetic gene clusters predicted.

Keywords: Bay of Bengal; Streptomyces; Sundarbans; estuary; mangrove.