Closed Genome Sequence of Clostridium botulinum Strain CFSAN064329 (62A)

Travis G Wentz; Kuan Yao; Kristin M Schill; N Rukma Reddy; Guy E Skinner; Travis R Morrissey; Yun Wang; Tim Muruvanda; Gowri Manickam; Christine A Pillai; Nagarajan Thirunavukkarasu; Maria Hoffmann; Thomas S Hammack; Eric W Brown; Marc W Allard; Shashi K Sharma

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00528-18

Closed Genome Sequence of Clostridium botulinum Strain CFSAN064329 (62A)

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 28;6(26):e00528-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00528-18.

Authors

Travis G Wentz^#¹, Kuan Yao^#¹, Kristin M Schill^#², N Rukma Reddy², Guy E Skinner², Travis R Morrissey², Yun Wang², Tim Muruvanda¹, Gowri Manickam¹, Christine A Pillai¹, Nagarajan Thirunavukkarasu¹, Maria Hoffmann¹, Thomas S Hammack¹, Eric W Brown¹, Marc W Allard¹, Shashi K Sharma³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Microbiology, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
² Division of Food Processing Science and Technology, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, Bedford Park, Illinois, USA.
³ Division of Microbiology, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA Shashi.Sharma@fda.hhs.gov.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Clostridium botulinum is a strictly anaerobic, Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that produces botulinum neurotoxin, a potent and deadly proteinaceous exotoxin. Clostridium botulinum strain CFSAN064329 (62A) produces an A1 serotype/subtype botulinum neurotoxin and is frequently utilized in food challenge and detection studies. We report here the closed genome sequence of Clostridium botulinum strain CFSAN064329 (62A).