Draft genome sequence of Bacillus okhensis Kh10-101T, a halo-alkali tolerant bacterium from Indian saltpan

Pilla Sankara Krishna; Ara Sreenivas; Deepak Kumar Singh; Sisinthy Shivaji; Jogadhenu S S Prakash

doi:10.1016/j.gdata.2015.10.019

Draft genome sequence of Bacillus okhensis Kh10-101T, a halo-alkali tolerant bacterium from Indian saltpan

Genom Data. 2015 Oct 30:6:283-4. doi: 10.1016/j.gdata.2015.10.019. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Authors

Pilla Sankara Krishna¹, Ara Sreenivas², Deepak Kumar Singh¹, Sisinthy Shivaji², Jogadhenu S S Prakash¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India.
² Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, India.

Abstract

We report the 4.86-Mb draft genome sequence of Bacillus okhensis strain Kh10-101T, a halo-alkali tolerant rod shaped bacterium isolated from a salt pan near port of Okha, India. This bacterium is a potential model to study the molecular response of bacteria to salt as well as alkaline stress, as it thrives under both high salt and high pH conditions. The draft genome consist of 4,865,284 bp with 38.2% G + C, 4952 predicted CDS, 157 tRNAs and 8 rRNAs. Sequence was deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the project accession JRJU00000000.

Keywords: Bacillus okhensis; Genome sequence; Haloalkali tolerance; Port of Okha.