Draft Genome Sequences of 24 Lactococcus lactis Strains

Lennart Backus; Michiel Wels; Jos Boekhorst; Annereinou R Dijkstra; Marke Beerthuyzen; William J Kelly; Roland J Siezen; Sacha A F T van Hijum; Herwig Bachmann

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01737-16

Draft Genome Sequences of 24 Lactococcus lactis Strains

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 30;5(13):e01737-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01737-16.

Authors

Lennart Backus^{1

2}, Michiel Wels^{1

2

3}, Jos Boekhorst^{1

2

3}, Annereinou R Dijkstra³, Marke Beerthuyzen^{2

3}, William J Kelly⁴, Roland J Siezen^{1

2

5}, Sacha A F T van Hijum^{1

2

4}, Herwig Bachmann^{6

3

7}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud umc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
² TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
³ NIZO food research B.V., Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentations, Ede, the Netherlands.
⁴ Grasslands Research Centre, AgResearch Limited, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
⁵ Microbial Bioinformatics, Ede, the Netherlands.
⁶ TI Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, the Netherlands [email protected].
⁷ Systems Bioinformatics, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Abstract

The lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis is widely used for the production of fermented dairy products. Here, we present the draft genome sequences of 24 L. lactis strains isolated from different environments and geographic locations.