{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7"],"submitter":["Salah ZB"],"pubmed_abstract":["Alkaline environments represent a significant challenge to the growth of micro-organisms. Despite this, there are a number of alkaline environments which contain active microbial communities. Here we describe the genome of a diazotrophic, alkalitolerant strain of <i>Azonexus,</i> which was isolated from a microcosm seeded with hyperalkaline soils resulting from lime depositions. The isolate has a genome size 3.60 Mb with 3431 protein coding genes. The proteome indicated the presence of genes associated with the cycling of nitrogen, in particular the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Although closely related to <i>Azonexus hydrophilus</i> strain d8-1 by both 16S (97.9%) and <i>in silico</i> gDNA (84.1%) relatedness, the isolate demonstrates a pH tolerance above that reported for this strain"],"journal":["Journal of genomics"],"pagination":["1-6"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6328298"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Genomic Insights Into A Novel, Alkalitolerant Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria, <i>Azonexus sp.</i> Strain ZS02."],"pmcid":["PMC6328298"],"pubmed_authors":["Humphreys PN","Salah ZB","Charles CJ","Laws AP","Rout SP"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Genomic Insights Into A Novel, Alkalitolerant Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria, <i>Azonexus sp.</i> Strain ZS02.","description":"Alkaline environments represent a significant challenge to the growth of micro-organisms. Despite this, there are a number of alkaline environments which contain active microbial communities. Here we describe the genome of a diazotrophic, alkalitolerant strain of <i>Azonexus,</i> which was isolated from a microcosm seeded with hyperalkaline soils resulting from lime depositions. The isolate has a genome size 3.60 Mb with 3431 protein coding genes. The proteome indicated the presence of genes associated with the cycling of nitrogen, in particular the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Although closely related to <i>Azonexus hydrophilus</i> strain d8-1 by both 16S (97.9%) and <i>in silico</i> gDNA (84.1%) relatedness, the isolate demonstrates a pH tolerance above that reported for this strain","dates":{"release":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2019","modification":"2026-04-30T04:15:07.907Z","creation":"2019-03-26T22:37:47Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6328298","cross_references":{"pubmed":["30662569"],"doi":["10.7150/jgen.28153"]}}