Open AccessGenomic and phenotypic description of the newly isolated human species Collinsella bouchesdurhonensis sp. nov.
Author(s) -
Bilen Melhem,
Beye Mamadou,
Mbogning Fonkou Maxime Descartes,
Khelaifia Saber,
Cadoret Frédéric,
Armstrong Nicholas,
Nguyen Thi Tien,
Delerce Jérémy,
Daoud Ziad,
Raoult Didier,
Fournier PierreEdouard
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
microbiologyopen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.881
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 2045-8827
DOI - 10.1002/mbo3.580
Subject(s) - strain (injury) , biology , phylogenetic tree , isolation (microbiology) , genome , bacteria , phenotype , genomics , bacillus (shape) , feces , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , anatomy
Using culturomics, a recently developed strategy based on diversified culture conditions for the isolation of previously uncultured bacteria, we isolated strain Marseille‐P3296 T from a fecal sample of a healthy pygmy female. A multiphasic approach, taxono‐genomics, was used to describe the major characteristics of this anaerobic and gram‐positive bacillus that is unable to sporulate and is not motile. The genome of this bacterium is 1,878,572 bp‐long with a 57.94 mol% G + C content. On the basis of these characteristics and after comparison with its closest phylogenetic neighbors, we are confident that strain Marseille‐P3296 T (= CCUG 70328 = CSUR P3296) is the type strain of a novel species for which we propose the name Collinsella bouchesdurhonensis sp. nov.