Complete Genome Sequence of Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Thermococcus sp. EXT12c, Isolated from the East Pacific Rise 9°N

Damien Courtine; Karine Alain; Myriam Georges; Nadège Bienvenu; Hilary G Morrison; A Murat Eren; Loïs Maignien

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01385-17

Complete Genome Sequence of Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Thermococcus sp. EXT12c, Isolated from the East Pacific Rise 9°N

Genome Announc. 2017 Dec 14;5(50):e01385-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01385-17.

Authors

Damien Courtine^{1

2

3}, Karine Alain^{1

2

3}, Myriam Georges^{1

2

3}, Nadège Bienvenu^{1

2

3}, Hilary G Morrison⁴, A Murat Eren^{4

5}, Loïs Maignien^{6

2

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO, UBL), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Plouzané, France.
² CNRS, IUEM-UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Plouzané, France.
³ Ifremer, UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Plouzané, France.
⁴ Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁶ Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO, UBL), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), UMR 6197, Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes (LM2E), Plouzané, France lois.maignien@univ-brest.fr.

Abstract

We report the genome sequence of Thermococcus sp. EXT12c isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent at the East Pacific Rise 9°N. Microbes in the genus Thermococcus are able to grow anaerobically at high temperature, around neutral pH, and some of them under high hydrostatic pressure.