Complete genome sequence of Kytococcus sedentarius type strain (541).

Abstract

Kytococcus sedentarius (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Stackebrandt et al. 1995 is the type strain of the species, and is of phylogenetic interest because of its location in the Dermacoccaceae, a poorly studied family within the actinobacterial suborder Micrococcineae. Kytococcus sedentarius is known for the production of oligoketide antibiotics as well as for its role as an opportunistic pathogen causing valve endocarditis, hemorrhagic pneumonia, and pitted keratolysis. It is strictly aerobic and can only grow when several amino acids are provided in the medium. The strain described in this report is a free-living, nonmotile, Gram-positive bacterium, originally isolated from a marine environment. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the complete genome sequence, and annotation. This is the first complete genome sequence of a member of the family Dermacoccaceae and the 2,785,024 bp long single replicon genome with its 2639 protein-coding and 64 RNA genes is part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.

• Authors: David Sims, Thomas Brettin, John C Detter, Cliff Han, Alla Lapidus, Alex Copeland, Tijana Glavina Del Rio, Matt Nolan, Feng Chen, Susan Lucas, Hope Tice, Jan-Fang Cheng, David Bruce, Lynne Goodwin, Sam Pitluck, Galina Ovchinnikova, Amrita Pati, Natalia Ivanova, Konstantinos Mavrommatis, Amy Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Patrik D'haeseleer, Patrick Chain, Jim Bristow, Jonathan A Eisen, Victor Markowitz, Philip Hugenholtz, Susanne Schneider, Markus Göker, Rüdiger Pukall, Nikos C Kyrpides, Hans-Peter Klenk
• Journal: Standards in genomic sciences (Stand Genomic Sci) Vol. 1 Issue 1 Pg. 12-20 (Jul 20 2009) ISSN: 1944-3277 [Print] England
• PMID: 21304632 (Publication Type: Journal Article)