DOE Joint Genome Institute Microbial Sequencing Priorities for FY 2003
| Microbe | Contact | Genome size | GC content | Taxon | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single Microbes | |||||
| Rubrobacter xylanophilus |
John Battista Louisiana State Univ. jbattis@lsu.edu |
~2.6 Mb | Actinobacteria | Highly radioresistant; degrades hemicellulose, xylan; thermophile. | |
| Prochlorococcus isolate NATL2A |
Sallie Chisholm MIT chisholm@mit.edu |
1.7 to 2.4 Mb | Prokaryote | Ocean carbon sequestration. | |
| Trichoderma reesei strain RUT-C30, ATCC56765 |
Dan Cullen USDA Forest Products Research Lab and Univ. of Wisconsin dcullen@facstaff.wisc.edu |
33 Mb | Fungi | Efficient cellulose-degrading organism. | |
| Kineococcus radiotolerans sp nov |
Carl Fliermans Savannah River Site carl.fliermans@srs.gov |
4.3 to 4.6 Mb | Bacteria | Highly radioresistant; degrades organic pollutants. | |
| Methylobacillus flagellatus, strain KT |
Mary Lidstrom Univ. Washington lidstrom@u.washington.edu |
3.1 Mb | 55% | Proteobacteria | Cycling of one-C compounds; bioremediation; environmentally benign bioprocesses to use these compounds as feedstocks. |
| Synechococcus elongates PCC7 942 |
Susan Golden Texas A&M sgolden@tamu.edu |
2.4 to 2.7 Mb | Cyanobacteria | Carbon fixation, photosynthesis in fresh waters. | |
| Ostreococcus |
Brian Palenik UCSD bpalenik@ucsd.edu |
8 to 10 Mb (est) | Eukaryote | Fast-growing, ubiquitous picoeukaryote, important in marine carbon-fixation. | |
| Moorella thermoacetica ATCC39073 |
Steven Ragsdale Univ. Nebraska sragsdale1@unl.edu |
TBD | Bacteria | Anaerobic fixation of CO2 via Wood-Ljungdahl pathway; can grow on hydrogen, also carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide as sole carbon sources; acetogenic. | |
| Emiliania huxleyi strain 1516 |
Betsy Read and Tom Wahlund California State Univ. bread@csusm.edu |
~ 5 Mb | Marine algae | Marine coccolithophorid; role in global carbon cycling and sulfur transformation. | |
| Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 |
Teresa Thiel Univ. Missouri thiel@umsl.edu |
7 to 10 Mb | ~41% | Cyanobacteria | Filamentous heterocyst-forming; fixes N and CO2; produces hydrogen. |
| Burkholderia complex (genomovar V) |
Jim Tiedje Michigan State Univ. tiedjej@pilot.msu.edu |
Bacteria | |||
|
(high draft) | 8 to 10 Mb (est) | TCE degrader. | ||
|
(low draft) | 8 to 10 Mb (est) | Rice rhizosphere colonizer. | ||
|
(low draft) | 8 to 10 Mb (est) | CF strain. | ||
| Phytophthera ramorum UCD Pr4 |
Brett Tyler Virginia Tech. bmtyler@vt.edu |
24 to 40 Mb | Fungi | Stramenophiles (includes diatoms and brown algae); pathogen of California oak. | |
| Phytophthora sojae P6497 | Brett Tyler | 62 to 90 Mb | Fungi | Stramenophiles (includes diatoms and brown algae); soybean pathogen. | |
| Crocosphaera watsonii WH8501 |
John Waterbury Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. jwaterbury@whoi.edu |
3.6 to 5 Mb | 40% | Cyanobacteria | Marine unicellular cyanobacterium; confined to waters from 26 to 32ºC; temporally segregates carbon-dioxide fixation from nitrogen fixation. |
| Estimated total | ~200 Mb | ||||
| Microbial Consortia | |||||
| Acid mine drainage from site in Iron Mountain, Calif. |
Jill Banfield UC Berkeley jill@eps.berkeley.edu |
30 BACs (3 to 6 Mb) | Bacteria | Low diversity; very low pH; F. acidarmanus already sequenced; environment well-characterized. | |
| Chlorochromatium aggregatum |
Don Bryant Penn State Univ. dab14@psu.edu |
2 to 10 Mb | Green sulfur bacteria, plus epibiont | Two-component culturable consortium, clusters at a 1:13 ratio; utilizes hydrogen, sulfide, sulfur, polysulfide, sometimes thiosulfate as electron donors for carbon fixation. | |
| Estimated total | ~15 Mb | ||||
