Complete Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli Strain WG5

Lejla Imamovic; Maria-Anna Misiakou; Eric van der Helm; Gianni Panagiotou; Maite Muniesa; Morten Otto Alexander Sommer

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01403-17

Complete Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli Strain WG5

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 11;6(2):e01403-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01403-17.

Authors

Lejla Imamovic¹, Maria-Anna Misiakou¹, Eric van der Helm¹, Gianni Panagiotou², Maite Muniesa³, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer⁴

Affiliations

¹ Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
² Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany.
³ Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Microbiology Section, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark msom@bio.dtu.dk.

Abstract

Escherichia coli strain WG5 is a widely used host for phage detection, including somatic coliphages employed as standard ISO method 10705-1 (2000). Here, we present the complete genome sequence of a commercial E. coli WG5 strain.