The novel species Deinococcus sp. strain AJ005, isolated from King George Island, synthesizes a red carotenoid. Its complete genome is made up of a single circular chromosome (3,380,712 bp, 64.2% G+C content) and four circular plasmids.
This work was supported by the Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center of the Global Frontier Project (grant number 2014M3A6A8066439), the National Research Foundation of Korea (grant number 2017R1A2B4011899), and the Priority Research Centers Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (grant number 2019R1A6A11051471).
