Genome Sequence of the Neurotoxigenic Clostridium butyricum Strain 5521

Karl A Hassan; Liam D H Elbourne; Sasha G Tetu; Eric A Johnson; Ian T Paulsen

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00632-14

Genome Sequence of the Neurotoxigenic Clostridium butyricum Strain 5521

Genome Announc. 2014 Jun 26;2(3):e00632-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00632-14.

Authors

Karl A Hassan¹, Liam D H Elbourne¹, Sasha G Tetu¹, Eric A Johnson², Ian T Paulsen³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Bacteriology, Botulinum Toxins Laboratory, Food Research Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
³ [email protected].

Abstract

Clostridium strains from six phylogenetic groups, C. botulinum groups I to IV, C. baratii, and C. butyricum, display the capacity to produce botulinum neurotoxin. Here, we present the genome sequence of a C. butyricum isolate, the neurotoxigenic strain 5521, which encodes the type E botulinum neurotoxin.

Grants and funding

N01AI30071/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States