Draft Genome Sequence of Burkholderia sp. MR1, a Methylarsenate-Reducing Bacterial Isolate from Florida Golf Course Soil

Shashank S Pawitwar; Sagar M Utturkar; Steven D Brown; Masafumi Yoshinaga; Barry P Rosen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00608-15

Draft Genome Sequence of Burkholderia sp. MR1, a Methylarsenate-Reducing Bacterial Isolate from Florida Golf Course Soil

Genome Announc. 2015 Jun 4;3(3):e00608-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00608-15.

Authors

Shashank S Pawitwar¹, Sagar M Utturkar², Steven D Brown, Masafumi Yoshinaga¹, Barry P Rosen³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
² Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
³ Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA brosen@fiu.edu.

Abstract

To elucidate the environmental organoarsenical biocycle, we isolated a soil organism, Burkholderia sp. MR1, which reduces relatively nontoxic pentavalent methylarsenate to the more toxic trivalent methylarsenite, with the goal of identifying the gene for the reductase. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Burkholderia sp. MR1.

Grants and funding

R37 GM055425/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States