Massilistercora timonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the human microbiota

M L Tall; S Ndongo; I I Ngom; J Delerce; S Khelaifia; D Raoult; P-E Fournier; A Levasseur

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100664

Massilistercora timonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the human microbiota

New Microbes New Infect. 2020 Mar 12:35:100664. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100664. eCollection 2020 May.

Authors

M L Tall^{1

2}, S Ndongo^{1

2}, I I Ngom^{1

2}, J Delerce^{1

2}, S Khelaifia^{1

2}, D Raoult^{1

2}, P-E Fournier^{2

3}, A Levasseur^{1

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Aix Marseille Université (AMU), MEPHI (Microbes, Evolution, Phylogeny and Infections), IRD, APHM, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille 13005, France.
² IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille 13005, France.
³ Aix Marseille Université (AMU), UMR MEPHI (Microbes, Evolution, Phylogeny and Infections) VITROME, IRD, SSA, APHM, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille 13005, France.
⁴ Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France.

Abstract

Massilistercora timonensis gen. nov., sp. nov. strain Marseille-P3756T is a new species of the phylum Firmicutes; it was isolated from the human gut microbiota and has a genome of 2 769 591 bp (51.2% G + C). The closest species based on 16S rRNA sequence was Merdimonas faecis strain BR31 with 95.2 % sequence similarity. Considering phenotypic features and comparative genome studies, we proposed the strain Marseille-P3756T as the type strain of Massilistercora timonensis sp. nov., a new species within the genus Massilistercora.

Keywords: Culturomics; Gut microbiota; Massilistercora timonensisgen. nov., sp. nov; taxonogenomics.