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Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Intestinimonas massilien sis sp. nov strain GD 2 T , the second Intestinimonas species cultured from the human gut
Author(s) -
Afouda Pamela,
Durand Guillaume A.,
Lagier JeanChristophe,
Labas Noémie,
Cadoret Fréderic,
Armstrong Nicholas,
Raoult Didier,
Dubourg Grégory
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
microbiologyopen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.881
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 2045-8827
DOI - 10.1002/mbo3.621
Subject(s) - biology , gene , whole genome sequencing , genome , amplicon , ribosomal rna , 16s ribosomal rna , strain (injury) , genetics , polymerase chain reaction , anatomy
Abstract Intestinimonas massiliensis sp. nov strain GD 2 T is a new species of the genus Intestinimonas (the second, following Intestinimonas butyriciproducens gen. nov., sp. nov). First isolated from the gut microbiota of a healthy subject of French origin using a culturomics approach combined with taxono‐genomics, it is strictly anaerobic, nonspore‐forming, rod‐shaped, with catalase‐ and oxidase‐negative reactions. Its growth was observed after preincubation in an anaerobic blood culture enriched with sheep blood (5%) and rumen fluid (5%), incubated at 37°C. Its phenotypic and genotypic descriptions are presented in this paper with a full annotation of its genome sequence. This genome consists of 3,104,261 bp in length and contains 3,074 predicted genes, including 3,012 protein‐coding genes and 62 RNA ‐coding genes. Strain GD 2 T significantly produces butyrate and is frequently found among available 16S rRNA gene amplicon datasets, which leads consideration of Intestinimonas massiliensis as an important human gut commensal.