Permanent draft genome of Thiobacillus thioparus DSM 505^T, an obligately chemolithoautotrophic member of the Betaproteobacteria.

ABSTRACT: Thiobacillus thioparus DSM 505^T is one of first two isolated strains of inorganic sulfur-oxidising Bacteria. The original strain of T. thioparus was lost almost 100 years ago and the working type strain is Culture C^T (=DSM 505^T = ATCC 8158^T) isolated by Starkey in 1934 from agricultural soil at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. It is an obligate chemolithoautotroph that conserves energy from the oxidation of reduced inorganic sulfur compounds using the Kelly-Trudinger pathway and uses it to fix carbon dioxide It is not capable of heterotrophic or mixotrophic growth. The strain has a genome size of 3,201,518 bp. Here we report the genome sequence, annotation and characteristics. The genome contains 3,135 protein coding and

SUBMITTER: Hutt LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5248467 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature