title: Complete genome of the marine bacterium Wenzhouxiangella marina KCTC 42284(T).
abstract: Wenzhouxiangella marina is an obligatory aerobic, Gram-negative, non-motile, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from the culture broth of marine microalgae, Picochlorum sp. 122. Here we report the 3.67 MB complete genome (65.26 G+C%) of W. marina KCTC 42284(T) encoding 3,016 protein-coding genes, 43 tRNAs and one rRNA operon. The genomic information supports multiple horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events in the history of W. marina, possibly with other marine bacteria co-existing in marine habitats. Evaluation of genomic signatures revealed 19 such HGT-derived genomic islands. Of these, eight were also supported by "genomic context" that refers to the existence of integrases, transposases and tmRNA genes either inside or in near vicinity to the island. The addition of W. marina genome expands the repertoire of marine bacterial genomic diversity, especially because the strain represents the sole genomic resource of a novel taxonomic family in the bacterial order Chromatiales.
authors.affiliation: Microbial Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; Department of Bioinformatics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sang-Heon
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Microbial Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Choe
authors.affiliation: OmicsPia, Co. Ltd., Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Byung Kwon
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Arshan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nasir
authors.affiliation: Microbial Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; Department of Bioinformatics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: kmkim@kribb.re.kr.
authors.forename: Kyung Mo
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D006088:Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D058086:Microalgae / Q000382:microbiology; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D012329:RNA, Bacterial
keywords: Complete genome; Horizontal gene transfer; Marine bacterium; Wenzhouxiangella marina