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Jun Ho Lee1,2, Pyung Cheon Lee3,2
1Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Woncheon-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea.
Microbiology Resource Announcements
|October 9, 2020
Abstract:
A novel Psychrobacter sp. strain, AJ006, was isolated from Antarctic soil. Its complete genome sequence consists of a single circular chromosome (3,032,533 bp; G+C content, 44.0%) and a single linear plasmid (49,070 bp; G+C content, 41.7%). Chromosomal genes encoding carbonic anhydrase and urease, key enzymes in a biomineralization process, were predicted.
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