Draft Nuclear Genome Sequence of the Liquid Hydrocarbon-Accumulating Green Microalga Botryococcus braunii Race B (Showa)

Daniel R Browne; Jerry Jenkins; Jeremy Schmutz; Shengqiang Shu; Kerrie Barry; Jane Grimwood; Jennifer Chiniquy; Aditi Sharma; Thomas D Niehaus; Taylor L Weiss; Andrew T Koppisch; David T Fox; Suraj Dhungana; Shigeru Okada; Joe Chappell; Timothy P Devarenne

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00215-17

Draft Nuclear Genome Sequence of the Liquid Hydrocarbon-Accumulating Green Microalga Botryococcus braunii Race B (Showa)

Genome Announc. 2017 Apr 20;5(16):e00215-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00215-17.

Authors

Daniel R Browne¹, Jerry Jenkins², Jeremy Schmutz^{2

3}, Shengqiang Shu³, Kerrie Barry³, Jane Grimwood², Jennifer Chiniquy³, Aditi Sharma³, Thomas D Niehaus⁴, Taylor L Weiss¹, Andrew T Koppisch⁵, David T Fox⁶, Suraj Dhungana⁶, Shigeru Okada^{7

8}, Joe Chappell⁴, Timothy P Devarenne⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
² HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
³ Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁴ Plant Biology Program and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
⁶ Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
⁷ Laboratory of Aquatic Natural Products Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
⁸ Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
⁹ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA tpd8@tamu.edu.

Abstract

Botryococcus braunii has long been known as a prodigious producer of liquid hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into combustion engine fuels. This draft genome for the B race of B. braunii will allow researchers to unravel important hydrocarbon biosynthetic pathways and identify possible regulatory networks controlling this unusual metabolism.