Draft Genome Sequence of the Bacteriocin-Producing Strain Enterococcus faecium M3K31, Isolated from Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus subsp. fulvus)

Sara Arbulu; Cyril Frantzen; Christopher T Lohans; Luis M Cintas; Carmen Herranz; Helge Holo; Dzung B Diep; John C Vederas; Pablo E Hernández

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00055-16

Draft Genome Sequence of the Bacteriocin-Producing Strain Enterococcus faecium M3K31, Isolated from Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus subsp. fulvus)

Genome Announc. 2016 Mar 24;4(2):e00055-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00055-16.

Authors

Sara Arbulu¹, Cyril Frantzen², Christopher T Lohans³, Luis M Cintas¹, Carmen Herranz¹, Helge Holo², Dzung B Diep², John C Vederas³, Pablo E Hernández⁴

Affiliations

¹ Departmento de Nutrición, Bromatología y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
² Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
³ Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁴ Departmento de Nutrición, Bromatología y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain ehernan@vet.ucm.es.

Abstract

Enterococcus faeciumM3K31 is a bacteriocinogenic lactic acid bacterium (LAB) isolated from griffon vulture (Gyps fulvussubsp.fulvus) feces. The draft genome sequence of this strain provides genetic data that support its biotechnological potential.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by funding from project AGL2012-34829 from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), by grant S2013/ABI-2747 from the Comunidad de Madrid (CAM), by the EEA grant NILS Science and Sustainability Coordinated Mobility of Researchers (017-ABEL-CM-2013) (Spain), and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NRSC) and the Canada Research Chair in Bioinorganic and Medicinal Chemistry (Canada).