Gene database of Shewanella putrefaciens CN-32

Shewanella putrefaciens is a Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic bacterium whose natural
habitat is the marine environment. Capable of using manganese and iron as
terminal electron acceptors in the electron transport chain, the bacterium has
been tapped for biotechnology purposes such as production of nanoparticles
through surface mediated reactions on the cell membrane. More recently, S.
putrefaciens is exploited for use in bioelectrochemical reactions to power
a bioeconomy. This work sought to provide fundamental information of the
genetic repertoire of S. putrefaciens CN-32 through parsing the
annotated genome sequence of the bacterium available on Genbank. The resulting
gene database comprise gene name, gene function, and gene sequence, and should
find use in guiding molecular cloning work to exploit the genetic endowment of S.
putrefaciens for applications in other microbial chassis. At the same time,
the gene database is also useful for informing genome editing workflow to
construct loss of function mutants needed in functional elucidation of genes in
this emerging biotechnology workhorse.