Whole genome sequence data of Lactobacillus fermentum AG8, the producer of antibacterial peptides

Lactic acid bacteria are widespread in various ecological niches and are widely used in various biotechnological processes like dairy food and silage production. While a number industrial strains of Lactobacillus are available to the date, a screening of new ones is still challenging. The Lactobacillus fermentum AG8 strain was isolated from the 4-months old fermented silage and characterized as producer of antimicrobial peptides. The genome has been sequenced by using Illumina MySeq platform with the coverage of 65x. Finally 277 contigs with total length 2.28 Mb have been obtained and 219 of them were linked in 1 segment with 1.96 Mb length. The analysis of the genome by RAST web-service has revealed 4273 coding sequences encoding for proteins including 2337 proteins without known function and 64 genes encoding for RNAs and 706 from genes were divided in 22 subsystems groups, while 1631 of them were not in any subsystem. The NCBI Bioproject has been deposited at NCBI under the accession number SUB8124387 and consists of full annotated genome and raw sequence data