Massilibacterium senegalense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterial genus isolated from the human gut

M Tidjani Alou; J Rathored; J-C Lagier; S Khelaifia; N Labas; C Sokhna; A Diallo; D Raoult; G Dubourg

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.01.010

Massilibacterium senegalense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterial genus isolated from the human gut

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Jan 22:10:101-11. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.01.010. eCollection 2016 Mar.

Authors

M Tidjani Alou¹, J Rathored¹, J-C Lagier¹, S Khelaifia¹, N Labas¹, C Sokhna², A Diallo², D Raoult³, G Dubourg¹

Affiliations

¹ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes IRD 198, CNRS 7278, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
² Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes IRD 198, CNRS 7278, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Campus Commun UCAD-IRD of Hann, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes IRD 198, CNRS 7278, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Massilibacterium senegalense gen. nov., sp. nov., strain mt8(T), is the type strain of Massilibacterium gen. nov., a new genus within the Bacillaceae family. This Gram-negative facultative anaerobic rod was isolated from the gut microbiota of a severely malnourished boy. Its phenotypic description is hereby presented with a complete annotation of its genome sequence. This genome is 5 697 950 bp long and contains 5615 protein-coding genes and 178 RNA genes, among which are 40 rRNA genes.

Keywords: Culturomics; Massilibacterium senegalense; genome; gut microbiota; taxonogenomics.