High quality draft genome sequence of an extremely halophilic archaeon Natrinema altunense strain AJ2^T.

ABSTRACT: Natrinema altunense strain AJ2^T, a halophilic archaeal strain, was isolated from a high-altitude (3884 m) salt lake in Xinjiang, China. This strain requires at least 1.7 M NaCl to grow and can grow anaerobically in the presence of nitrate. To understand the genetics underlying its extreme phenotype, we de novo assembled the entire genome sequence of AJ2^T (=CGMCC 1.3731^T=JCM 12890^T). We assembled 3,774,135 bp of a total of 4.4 Mb genome in only 20 contigs and noted its high GC content (64.6%). Subsequently we predicted the gene content and generated genome annotation to identify the relationship between the epigenetic characteristics and genomic features. The genome sequence contains 52 tRNA genes, 3 rRNA genes and 4,462 protein-codi

SUBMITTER: Cheng H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5333441 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature