Draft Genome Sequence of the Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacterium “Candidatus Sulfurovum sediminum” AR, Which Belongs to the Epsilonproteobacteria

• Published in: Journal of Bacteriology
• Main Authors: Park, Soo-Je, Ghai, Rohit, Martín-Cuadrado, Ana-Belén, Rodríguez-Valera, Francisco, Jung, Man-Young, Kim, Jong-Geol, Rhee, Sung-Keun
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2012
• Subjects: Genome Announcements; Arctic; Svalbard
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3416546; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22815446; https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00741-12

Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria are common microorganisms in a variety of sulfide-rich environments. They play important roles in the global sulfur cycle on earth. Here, we present a high-quality draft genome sequence of a sulfur-oxidizing bacterium, “Candidatus Sulfurovum sediminum” strain AR, which belongs to the class Epsilonproteobacteria and dominated an enrichment culture from a marine sediment collected off Svalbard, within the Arctic Circle. Its genome contains genes for sulfur oxidation and carbon fixation. The size of the draft genome is 2.12 Mb, and the G+C content is 39.4%.