Complete genome sequencing of Streptomyces sp. strain MOE7, which produces an extracellular polysaccharide with antioxidant and antitumor activities.

Authors: Elnahas, Marwa O and De León, Kara B and Amin, Magdy A and Hussein, Mohamed M D and Ali, Amal E and Wall, Judy D

Streptomyces sp. strain MOE7 is a Gram-positive filamentous bacterium isolated from agricultural soil in Columbia, Missouri, USA. Strain MOE7 produces an extracellular polysaccharide with antioxidant and antitumor activities. Through PacBio RSII sequencing, the MOE7 genome was found to be a linear chromosome of 8,399,509 bp with 6,782 protein-coding sequences. Copyright © 2017 Elnahas et al.

Journal: Genome announcements
DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00442-17
Year: 2017

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