Draft Genome Sequence of Janthinobacterium sp. Ant5-2-1, Isolated from Proglacial Lake Podprudnoye in the Schirmacher Oasis of East Antarctica

Hyunmin Koo; Bailey M Strope; Eddy H Kim; Adel M Shabani; Ranjit Kumar; Michael R Crowley; Dale T Andersen; Asim K Bej

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01600-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Janthinobacterium sp. Ant5-2-1, Isolated from Proglacial Lake Podprudnoye in the Schirmacher Oasis of East Antarctica

Genome Announc. 2016 Jan 21;4(1):e01600-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01600-15.

Authors

Hyunmin Koo¹, Bailey M Strope¹, Eddy H Kim¹, Adel M Shabani¹, Ranjit Kumar², Michael R Crowley³, Dale T Andersen⁴, Asim K Bej⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
² CCTS Biomedical Informatics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
³ Heflin Center for Genomic Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
⁴ Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute, Mountain View, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA abej@uab.edu.

Abstract

Janthinobacterium sp. Ant5-2-1, isolated from the Schirmacher Oasis of East Antarctica, produces a purple-violet pigment, manifests diverse energy metabolism abilities, and tolerates cold, ultraviolet radiation, and other environmental stressors. We report here the 6.19-Mb draft genome of strain Ant5-2-1, which will help understand its survival mechanisms in extreme Antarctic ecosystems.

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