Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Mediterranea massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Bacteroidaceae family isolated from human colon.

I. I. Ngom (1) , M. Mailhe (1) , D. Ricaboni (1) , V. Vitton (2) , A. Benezech (2) , S. Khelaifia (1) , C. Michelle (1) , F. Cadoret (3) , N. Armstrong (1) , A. Levasseur (1) , Didier Raoult (3) , M. Million (1)

1 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
2 Hôpital Nord [CHU - APHM]
3 MEPHI - Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections

Strain Marseille-P2645(T) was isolated in a colon sample from a Frenchwoman who underwent a colonoscopy. Bacterial cells were Gram negative, non-spore forming, mobile and strictly anaerobic. The genome of strain Marseille-P2645(T) is 3 950 441 bp long and contains 3374 protein-coding genes. The DNA G+C content is of 51.66 mol%. Strain Marseille-P2645(T) exhibited a 92.9% sequence similarity with Bacteroides helcogenes strain P36-108(T) (GenBank accession no. CP002352), the phylogenetically closest species with standing in nomenclature. Strain Marseille-P2645(T) (= CSUR P2645 = DSM 103034) is therefore a candidate as a type species of a new genus belonging to the Bacteroidaceae family, for which the name of Mediterranea massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., is proposed.

Keywords: culturomics; taxonogenomics; Colon; genome; Mediterranea massiliensis gen. nov.; sp. nov.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Bacteriology; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Biodiversity; Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy

I. I. Ngom, M. Mailhe, D. Ricaboni, V. Vitton, A. Benezech, et al.. Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Mediterranea massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Bacteroidaceae family isolated from human colon.. New Microbes and New Infections, 2018, 21, pp.105-116. ⟨10.1016/j.nmni.2017.11.009⟩. ⟨hal-01795914⟩