Acinetobacter sp. Ver3 Genome sequencing and assembly. Acinetobacter sp. Ver3

Acinetobacter sp. Ver3 isolated from shallow water of Lake Verde (4400 m asl) has been proposed as a model poly-extremophilic strain as it is able to cope with the extreme conditions of the lake: high concentration of salt and arsenic and exposure to high UV irradiation. Its polyextremophilic nature can be explained in part by a highly efficient DNA damage photorepairing ability (Albarracin et al., 2012) as well as an efficient catalase machinery (DiCapua et al., 2011). Genomic sequence will allow to correlate genes the observed phenotypes, aiming to understand the molecular nature of its multiple resistance mechanisms.