Draft genomic sequence of a selenite-reducing bacterium, Paenirhodobacter enshiensis DW2-9T

Abstract

Paenirhodobacter enshiensis is a non-photosynthetic species that belongs to family Rhodobacteraceae. Here we report the draft genome sequence of Paenirhodobacter enshiensis DW2-9T and comparison results to the available related genomes. The strain has a 3.4 Mbp genome sequence with G + C content of 66.82 % and 2781 protein-coding genes. It lacks photosynthetic gene clusters and putative proteins necessary in Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) pathway, but contains proteins in Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway instead. It shares 699 common genes with nine related Rhodobacteraceae genomes, and possesses 315 specific genes.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40793-015-0026-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Paenirhodobacter enshiensis DW2-9 T has recently been described as a non-pigmented cell within the Rhodobacteraceae. Unfortunately, hydrogen production through nitrogenase activity has not been reported for this species so far, but it is unlikely to occur via nitrogenase activity since no homologs of nifH, nifD and nifK (the structural genes for nitrogen fixation) can be found in the complete genome draft sequence (Wang et al, 2015).…”