Complete genome sequence of the filamentous gliding predatory bacterium Herpetosiphon aurantiacus type strain (114-95T)

Hajnalka Kiss, Markus Nett, Nicole Domin, Karin Martin, Julia A. Maresca, Alex Copeland, Alla Lapidus, Susan Lucas, Kerrie W. Berry, Tijana Glavina del Rio, Eileen Dalin, Hope Tice, Sam Pitluck, Paul Richardson, David Bruce, Lynne Goodwin, Cliff Han, John C. Detter, Jeremy Schmutz, Thomas BrettinMiriam Land, Loren Hauser, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, Markus Göker, Tanja Woyke, Hans Peter Klenk, Donald A. Bryant

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Abstract

Herpetosiphon aurantiacus Holt and Lewin 1968 is the type species of the genus Herpetosiphon, which in turn is the type genus of the family Herpetosiphonaceae, type family of the order Herpetosiphonales in the phylum Chloroflexi. H. aurantiacus cells are organized in filaments which can rapidly glide. The species is of interest not only because of its rather isolated position in the tree of life, but also because Herpetosiphon ssp. were identified as predators capable of facultative pre-dation by a wolf pack strategy and of degrading the prey organisms by excreted hydrolytic enzymes. The genome of H. aurantiacus strain 114-95T is the first completely sequenced genome of a member of the family Herpetosiphonaceae. The 6,346,587 bp long chromosome and the two 339,639 bp and 99,204 bp long plasmids with a total of 5,577 protein-coding and 77 RNA genes was sequenced as part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute Program DOEM 2005.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)356-370
Number of pages15
JournalStandards in Genomic Sciences
Volume5
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Genetics

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