The Draft Genome Sequence of Thermophilic Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum M5 Capable of Directly Producing Butanol from Hemicellulose

Yujia Jiang, Jie Liu, Weiliang Dong, Wenming Zhang, Yan Fang, Jiangfeng Ma, Min Jiang, Fengxue Xin

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Abstract

A novel thermophilic and butanogenic Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum M5 was successfully isolated and characterized, which could produce butanol from hemicellulose via a unique ethanol–butanol (EB) pathway through consolidated bioprocessing (CBP). This represents the first wild-type bacterium which could produce butanol from hemicellulose via CBP under thermophilic conditions. The assembled draft genome of strain M5 is 2.64 Mp, which contains 2638 genes and 2465 protein-coding sequences with 33.90% G + C content. Among these annotated proteins, xylanases, xylosidases, and bifunctional alcohol/aldehyde dehydrogenase (AdhE) play key roles in the achievement of EB production from hemicellulose through CBP.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)620-623
Number of pages4
JournalCurrent Microbiology
Volume75
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2018

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