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Halophilic bacteria are receiving increasing attention for industrial chemical production processes due to their unique properties. Herein, an alkaliphilic and halophilic bacterium was isolated from a commercial Spirulina culture at Nghe An province in Vietnam and found to secrete pyruvate. Pyruvate is widely used as a starting material in the industrial biosynthesis of pharmaceuticals, and is employed for production of crop protection agents, polymers, cosmetics, and food additives. Phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characterization, and the 16S rRNA gene sequence homology with Halomonas hydrothermalis strain DSM 15,725 (99.2%) predicted that the strain belongs to the Halomonas genus, thus we named this strain as H. hydrothermalis strain C22. We investigated the biocharacteristics and capacity of strain C22 and determined the draft genome sequence comprising 3,934,166 bp with a G + C content of 60.2% encoding 3,668 proteins, 58 tRNAs, 9 rRNAs, and 1 tmRNA. Maximal pyruvate secretion reached 51.1 g/l after 84 h of cultivation. The results will facilitate future studies on the genetic and metabolic diversity of halophilic bacteria and expand our understanding of important bioprocesses in this microorganism.
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This research is funded by Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) under Grant number 106-NN.04-2016.06 for Dr. Hoang Thi Lan Anh.
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Anh, H.T.L., Kawata, Y., Tam, L.T. et al. Biocharacteristics and draft genome sequence of Halomonas hydrothermalis C22, a pyruvate-producing halophilic bacterium isolated from a commercial Spirulina culture in Vietnam. Arch Microbiol 202, 1043–1048 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-020-01811-4
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