Genome sequencing of the HCH-degrading Penicillium griseofulvum MUT 5854, first genetic data into mycoremediation of HCH-polluted sites.
Penicillium griseofulvum MUT 5854 was isolated from historically polluted soil (the Valle del Sacco, Lazio, Italy) with high concentrations of isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH). The strain is preserved in the Fungal Biodiversity Laboratory (FBL), Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, as FBL 500, and in the Mycotheca Universitatis Taurinensis (MUT), University of Turin, Turin, Italy, as MUT 5854. Here, the genome of P. griseofulvum MUT 5854 (29 Mb, GC % 47.28) was sequenced, assembled and annotated. Our genomic data on P. griseofulvum MUT 5854 are a basis for transcriptomic approaches under exposure to HCH.