Draft Genome Sequence of Mn(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Oxalobacteraceae sp. Strain AB_14

Timothy J Bushman; Denise M Akob; Tsing Bohu; Andrea Beyer; Tanja Woyke; Nicole Shapiro; Alla Lapidus; Hans-Peter Klenk; Kirsten Küsel

doi:10.1128/MRA.01024-19

Draft Genome Sequence of Mn(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Oxalobacteraceae sp. Strain AB_14

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 24;8(43):e01024-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01024-19.

Authors

Timothy J Bushman¹, Denise M Akob², Tsing Bohu³, Andrea Beyer⁴, Tanja Woyke⁵, Nicole Shapiro⁵, Alla Lapidus^{5

6}, Hans-Peter Klenk⁷, Kirsten Küsel⁸

Affiliations

¹ U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, USA.
² U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, USA dakob@usgs.gov.
³ Mineral Resources, CSIRO, Kensington, Western Australia, Australia.
⁴ Institute for Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
⁵ Joint Genome Institute, U.S. Department of Energy, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁶ The Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
⁷ School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
⁸ Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.

Abstract

Biological Mn(II) oxidation produces reactive manganese oxides that help to mitigate metal contamination in the environment. Here, we present the genome of Oxalobacteraceae sp. strain AB_14, a species of Mn(II)-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) that is notable for its ability to catalyze Mn oxidation at low pH (5.5).