Whole genome sequencing of Acaryochloris sp MBIC10699

Acaryochloris is a unique marine cyanobacterium that biosynthesizes Chl d, as its primary photosynthetic pigment, which absorbs far-red light. Acaryochloris is also unique in that it can be divided into groups with and without phycobilisomes as a light-harvesting protein complex. In A. marina MBIC11017 strain, which retains phycobilisome, almost all genes encoded phycobilisome component and related to the chromophore biosynthesis are accumulated in a single plasmid. In this study, we report the complete genome sequence of Acaryochloris sp MBIC10699, a strain that is spectroscopically shown to be phycobilisome-less strain. The genome of A. sp MBIC10699 consists of a 6.4 Mb chromosome and four large plasmids (400-200 Kb), totaling about 7.6 Mb.