title: Permanent draft genome sequence of Desulfurococcus mobilis type strain DSM 2161, a thermoacidophilic sulfur-reducing crenarchaeon isolated from acidic hot springs of Hveravellir, Iceland.
abstract: This report presents the permanent draft genome sequence of Desulfurococcus mobilis type strain DSM 2161, an obligate anaerobic hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon that was isolated from acidic hot springs in Hveravellir, Iceland. D. mobilis utilizes peptides as carbon and energy sources and reduces elemental sulfur to H2S. A metabolic construction derived from the draft genome identified putative pathways for peptide degradation and sulfur respiration in this archaeon. Existence of several hydrogenase genes in the genome supported previous findings that H2 is produced during the growth of D. mobilis in the absence of sulfur. Interestingly, genes encoding glucose transport and utilization systems also exist in the D. mobilis genome though this archaeon does not utilize carbohydrate for growth. The draft genome of D. mobilis provides an additional mean for comparative genomic analysis of desulfurococci. In addition, our analysis on the Average Nucleotide Identity between D. mobilis and Desulfurococcus mucosus suggested that these two desulfurococci are two different strains of the same species.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA.
authors.forename: Dwi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Susanti
authors.affiliation: Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA.
authors.forename: Eric F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Algorithmic Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia ; Algorithmic Biology Lab, St. Petersburg Academic University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
authors.forename: Alla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lapidus
authors.affiliation: US DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California 94598 USA.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: US DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California 94598 USA.
authors.forename: T B K
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.affiliation: Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California USA.
authors.forename: Manoj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pilay
authors.affiliation: US DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California 94598 USA.
authors.forename: Natalia N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Ivanova
authors.affiliation: Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California USA.
authors.forename: Victor M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.affiliation: US DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California 94598 USA.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Woyke
authors.affiliation: US DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California 94598 USA ; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Nikos C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA ; Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA ; Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA.
authors.forename: Biswarup
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mukhopadhyay
keywords: Acidic hot spring; Desulfurococcus; Sulfur-reducing crenarchaeon; Thermophile