Draft genome sequence of Clostridium sporogenes PA 3679, the common nontoxigenic surrogate for proteolytic Clostridium botulinum

Mark Bradbury; Paul Greenfield; David Midgley; Dongmei Li; Nai Tran-Dinh; Frank Vriesekoop; Janelle L Brown

doi:10.1128/JB.06765-11

Draft genome sequence of Clostridium sporogenes PA 3679, the common nontoxigenic surrogate for proteolytic Clostridium botulinum

J Bacteriol. 2012 Mar;194(6):1631-2. doi: 10.1128/JB.06765-11.

Authors

Mark Bradbury¹, Paul Greenfield, David Midgley, Dongmei Li, Nai Tran-Dinh, Frank Vriesekoop, Janelle L Brown

Affiliation

¹ CSIRO Division of Food and Nutritional Sciences, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. mark.bradbury@csiro.au

Abstract

Clostridium sporogenes PA 3679 is widely used as a nontoxigenic surrogate for proteolytic strains of Clostridium botulinum in the derivation and validation of thermal processes in food. Here we report the draft assembly and annotation of the C. sporogenes PA 3679 genome. Preliminary analysis demonstrates a high degree of relatedness between C. sporogenes PA 3679 and sequenced strains of proteolytic C. botulinum.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Clostridium / genetics*
DNA, Bacterial / chemistry*
DNA, Bacterial / genetics*
Genome, Bacterial*
Molecular Sequence Data
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Sequence Homology

Substances

DNA, Bacterial

Associated data

GENBANK/AGAH00000000