Draft Genome Sequence of a Human-Associated Isolate of Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus, the Lowest-G+C-Content Archaeon

Saber Khelaifia; Marc Garibal; Catherine Robert; Didier Raoult; Michel Drancourt

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01181-13

Draft Genome Sequence of a Human-Associated Isolate of Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus, the Lowest-G+C-Content Archaeon

Genome Announc. 2014 Jan 23;2(1):e01181-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01181-13.

Authors

Saber Khelaifia¹, Marc Garibal, Catherine Robert, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt

Affiliation

¹ Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UMR63 CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, Marseille, France.

Abstract

We report the draft genome sequence of Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus strain ANOR1, isolated from the human gut. Its 2.21-Mb genome exhibits a 25.46% G+C content, the lowest value among archaea. The genome of M. arboriphilicus contains a total of 2,111 open reading frames and three clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) loci with associated Cas proteins.