Luxibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the human gut microbiota

H Anani (1, 2) , C I Lo (2) , L Zitvogel (3, 4) , S Naud , S Bellali , A Yacouba , M Tidjani Alou (5) , N Armstrong (5) , M Bonvalet , D Raoult (5, 1) , J-C Lagier (5)

1 IHU Marseille - Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection
2 VITROME - Vecteurs - Infections tropicales et méditerranéennes
3 IGR - Institut Gustave Roussy
4 UMR 1015 - Immunologie des tumeurs et immunothérapie
5 MEPHI - Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections

An anaerobic facultative Gram-stain positive bacterium was isolated from human gut microbiota. Strain Marseille-P5551 T was considered to be a new genus within the phylum Firmicutes, as it exhibits a 91.87% similarity level with Faecalicatena orotica (NR_117129.1), the phylogenetically closest related species. The draft genome size of strain Marseille-P5551 T is 4 142 938 bp with 44.4% of G + C content. We hereby suggest the creation of Luxibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., as a new bacterial genus.

Mots clés: culturomics; genome; human gut; Luxibacter massiliensis gen. nov.; sp. nov.; taxonogenomics

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Génétique humaine

H Anani, C I Lo, L Zitvogel, S Naud, S Bellali, et al.. Luxibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the human gut microbiota. New Microbes and New Infections, 2021, 40, ⟨10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100850⟩. ⟨hal-03245805⟩