Genome characteristics of Kordia antarctica IMCC3317T and comparative genome analysis of the genus Kordia

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Lim, Yeonjung, Kang, Ilnam, Cho, Jang-Cheon
• Other Authors: National Research Foundation of Korea, Korea Institute of Marine Science and Technology promotion
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71328-9; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71328-9.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71328-9

Abstract The genus Kordia is one of many genera affiliated with the family Flavobacteriaceae of the phylum Bacteroidetes , well known for its degradation of high molecular weight organic matters. The genus Kordia currently comprises eight species, type strains of which have been isolated from a diverse range of marine environments. As of this report, four genome sequences have been submitted for cultured strains of Kordia , but none are complete nor have they been analyzed comprehensively. In this study, we report the complete genome of Kordia antarctica IMCC3317 T , isolated from coastal seawater off the Antarctic Peninsula. The complete genome of IMCC3317 T consists of a single circular chromosome with 5.5 Mbp and a 33.2 mol% of G+C DNA content. The IMCC3317 T genome showed features typical of chemoheterotrophic marine bacteria and similar to other Kordia genomes, such as complete gene sets for the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas glycolysis pathway, tricarboxylic acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation. The genome also encoded many carbohydrate-active enzymes, some of which were clustered into approximately seven polysaccharide utilization loci, thereby demonstrating the potential for polysaccharide utilization. Finally, a nosZ gene encoding nitrous oxide reductase, an enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of N 2 O to N 2 gas, was also unique to the IMCC3317 T genome.