Genome Sequence of the Thermophilic Cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus sp. Strain NK55a

Sergey Stolyar; Zhenfeng Liu; Vera Thiel; Lynn P Tomsho; Nicolas Pinel; William C Nelson; Stephen R Lindemann; Margie F Romine; Shin Haruta; Stephan C Schuster; Donald A Bryant; Jim K Fredrickson

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01060-13

Genome Sequence of the Thermophilic Cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus sp. Strain NK55a

Genome Announc. 2014 Jan 30;2(1):e01060-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01060-13.

Authors

Sergey Stolyar¹, Zhenfeng Liu, Vera Thiel, Lynn P Tomsho, Nicolas Pinel, William C Nelson, Stephen R Lindemann, Margie F Romine, Shin Haruta, Stephan C Schuster, Donald A Bryant, Jim K Fredrickson

Affiliation

¹ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.

Abstract

The genome of the unicellular cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus sp. strain NK55a, isolated from the Nakabusa hot spring, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, comprises a single, circular, 2.5-Mb chromosome. The genome is predicted to contain 2,358 protein-encoding genes, including genes for all typical cyanobacterial photosynthetic and metabolic functions. No genes encoding hydrogenases or nitrogenase were identified.