Draft Genome Sequence of Gordonia lacunae BS2T
Kim Durrell1,2, Alaric Prins1,3, Marilize Le Roes-Hill4
1Biocatalysis and Technical Biology Research Group, Institute of Biomedical and Microbial Biotechnology, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Bellville, South Africa.
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|October 7, 2017
Abstract:
We report here the draft genome sequence of the soil bacterium Gordonia lacunae BS2T (= DSM 45085T = JCM 14873T = NRRL B-24551T), isolated from an estuary in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. Analysis of the draft genome revealed that more than 40% of the secondary metabolite biosynthetic genes encode new compounds.
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