Draft Genome Sequence of the Nylon Oligomer-Degrading Bacterium Arthrobacter sp. Strain KI72

Ikki Takehara; Dai-Ichiro Kato; Masahiro Takeo; Seiji Negoro

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00217-17

Draft Genome Sequence of the Nylon Oligomer-Degrading Bacterium Arthrobacter sp. Strain KI72

Genome Announc. 2017 Apr 27;5(17):e00217-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00217-17.

Authors

Ikki Takehara¹, Dai-Ichiro Kato², Masahiro Takeo¹, Seiji Negoro³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan.
² Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, Korimoto, Kagoshima, Japan.
³ Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan negoro@eng.uhyogo.ac.jp.

Abstract

We report here the 4.6-Mb genome sequence of a nylon oligomer-degrading bacterium, Arthrobacter sp. strain KI72. The draft genome sequence of strain KI72 consists of 4,568,574 bp, with a G+C content of 63.47%, 4,372 coding sequences (CDSs), 54 tRNAs, and six rRNAs.