Draft Genome Sequence of the Naturally Competent Bacillus simplex Strain WY10

Eric C Keen; Valery V Bliskovsky; Sankar L Adhya; Gautam Dantas

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01295-17

Draft Genome Sequence of the Naturally Competent Bacillus simplex Strain WY10

Genome Announc. 2017 Nov 16;5(46):e01295-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01295-17.

Authors

Eric C Keen¹, Valery V Bliskovsky², Sankar L Adhya³, Gautam Dantas^{4

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Affiliations

¹ The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA e.keen@wustl.edu.
² CCR Genomics Core, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
³ Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁴ The Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
⁵ Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
⁶ Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
⁷ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Abstract

We sequenced a naturally competent bacterial isolate, WY10, cultured from a Wyoming soil sample. Sequence analysis revealed that WY10 is a novel strain of Bacillus simplex To our knowledge, WY10 is the first B. simplex strain to be characterized as naturally competent for DNA uptake by transformation.