Genome Sequence of Anoxybacillus geothermalis Strain GSsed3, a Novel Thermophilic Endospore-Forming Species

Sevasti Filippidou; Marion Jaussi; Thomas Junier; Tina Wunderlin; Ludovic Roussel-Delif; Nicole Jeanneret; Andrea Vieth-Hillebrand; Alexandra Vetter; Simona Regenspurg; Shannon L Johnson; Kim McMurry; Cheryl D Gleasner; Chien-Chi Lo; Paul Li; Momchilo Vuyisich; Patrick S Chain; Pilar Junier

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00575-15

Genome Sequence of Anoxybacillus geothermalis Strain GSsed3, a Novel Thermophilic Endospore-Forming Species

Genome Announc. 2015 Jun 11;3(3):e00575-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00575-15.

Authors

Sevasti Filippidou¹, Marion Jaussi¹, Thomas Junier², Tina Wunderlin¹, Ludovic Roussel-Delif¹, Nicole Jeanneret¹, Andrea Vieth-Hillebrand³, Alexandra Vetter³, Simona Regenspurg³, Shannon L Johnson⁴, Kim McMurry⁴, Cheryl D Gleasner⁴, Chien-Chi Lo⁴, Paul Li⁴, Momchilo Vuyisich⁴, Patrick S Chain⁴, Pilar Junier⁵

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Microbiology, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
² Vital-IT Group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, Potsdam, Germany.
⁴ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
⁵ Laboratory of Microbiology, Neuchâtel, Switzerland [email protected].

Abstract

Anoxybacillus geothermalis strain GSsed3 is an endospore-forming thermophilic bacterium isolated from filter deposits in a geothermal site. This novel species has a larger genome size (7.2 Mb) than that of any other Anoxybacillus species, and it possesses genes that support its phenotypic metabolic characterization and suggest an intriguing link to metals.