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Rebecca E Parales1, Gaurav Sharma2, Xiangsheng Zhang2,3
1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA reparales@ucdavis.edu scdawson@ucdavis.edu.
Abstract:
A pink-pigmented facultative methylotroph, Methylorubrum populi Pinkel, was isolated from compost by selective enrichment with caffeine (3,5,7-trimethylxanthine) as the sole carbon, nitrogen, and energy source. We report here its high-quality draft genome sequence, assembled in 35 contigs totaling 5,630,907 bp. We identified 5,681 protein-coding sequences, including those putatively involved in caffeine degradation.
