Whole-Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli Serotype O157:H7 Strain PA20

Gaylen A Uhlich; George C Paoli; Xinmin Zhang; Edward G Dudley; Hillary M Figler; Bryan J Cottrell; Elisa Andreozzi

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01460-16

Whole-Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli Serotype O157:H7 Strain PA20

Genome Announc. 2017 Jan 12;5(2):e01460-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01460-16.

Authors

Gaylen A Uhlich¹, George C Paoli², Xinmin Zhang³, Edward G Dudley⁴, Hillary M Figler⁵, Bryan J Cottrell², Elisa Andreozzi²

Affiliations

¹ Molecular Characterization of Foodborne Pathogens Research Unit, USDA, Agriculture Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA gaylen.uhlich@ars.usda.gov.
² Molecular Characterization of Foodborne Pathogens Research Unit, USDA, Agriculture Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ BioInfoRx, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
⁴ Department of Food Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁵ The Huck Institute of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Abstract

Escherichia coli serotype O157:H7 strain PA20 is a Pennsylvania Department of Health clinical isolate. It has been used to study biofilm formation in O157:H7 clinical isolates, where the high incidence of prophage insertions in the mlrA transcription factor disrupts traditional csgD biofilm regulation. Here, we report the complete PA20 genome sequence.