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Bacillus licheniformis is a Gram-positive rod, belonging to the B. subtilis group of Bacilli. It is an apathogenic soil organism that is mainly associated with plant and plant materials in nature but can be isolated from nearly everywhere due to its highly resistant endospores that are disseminated with the dust. It is used by industry to produce proteases and amylases. Beside many other applications, proteases are needed in huge amounts for example as additions to washing agents. Moreover B. licheniformis is used to make the polypeptide antibiotic Bacitracin.
G2L sequenced the genome of B. licheniformis DSM13.This organism contains a single circular chromosome of 4.22 Mbp length. It codes for around 4200 open reading frames. The GC content is 46.2%. Plasmids were not detected.
Current status:

The genome sequence has been released, GenBank accession no. AE017333

Publication:

Veith, B., Herzberg, C., Steckel, S., Feesche, J., Maurer, K. H., Ehrenreich, P., Bäumer, S., Henne, A., Liesegang, H., Merkl, R., Ehrenreich, A., Gottschalk, G. (2004) The complete genome sequence of Bacillus licheniformis DSM13, an organism with great industrial potential. J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 7(4):204-211 (free access).

Further information: please contact Dr. Armin Ehrenreich, Georg-August-University Göttingen ( )