Complete Genome Sequence of the Opitutaceae Bacterium Strain TAV5, a Potential Facultative Methylotroph of the Wood-Feeding Termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Malini Kotak; Jantiya Isanapong; Lynne Goodwin; David Bruce; Amy Chen; Cliff S Han; Marcel Huntemann; Natalia Ivanova; Miriam L Land; Matt Nolan; Amrita Pati; Tanja Woyke; Jorge L M Rodrigues

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00060-15

Complete Genome Sequence of the Opitutaceae Bacterium Strain TAV5, a Potential Facultative Methylotroph of the Wood-Feeding Termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 5;3(2):e00060-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00060-15.

Authors

Malini Kotak¹, Jantiya Isanapong², Lynne Goodwin³, David Bruce³, Amy Chen⁴, Cliff S Han³, Marcel Huntemann⁴, Natalia Ivanova⁴, Miriam L Land⁵, Matt Nolan⁴, Amrita Pati⁴, Tanja Woyke⁴, Jorge L M Rodrigues⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, USA.
² King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand.
³ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
⁴ DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁵ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
⁶ Department of Land, Water and Air Resources, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA jmrodrigues@ucdavis.edu.

Abstract

The Opitutaceae bacterium strain TAV5, a member of the phylum Verrucomicrobia, was isolated from the wood-feeding termite hindgut. We report here its complete genome sequence, which contains a chromosome and a plasmid of 7,317,842 bp and 99,831 bp, respectively. The genomic analysis reveals genes for methylotrophy, lignocellulose degradation, and ammonia and sulfate assimilation.