Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Planococcus massiliensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from the human gut

E H Seck; S A Sankar; S Khelaifia; O Croce; C Robert; C Couderc; F Di Pinto; C Sokhna; P-E Fournier; D Raoult; J-C Lagier

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2015.12.006

Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Planococcus massiliensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from the human gut

New Microbes New Infect. 2015 Dec 31:10:36-46. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.12.006. eCollection 2016 Mar.

Authors

E H Seck¹, S A Sankar¹, S Khelaifia¹, O Croce¹, C Robert¹, C Couderc¹, F Di Pinto¹, C Sokhna², P-E Fournier¹, D Raoult³, J-C Lagier¹

Affiliations

¹ Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM 63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de Médecine, 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, UM 63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

We propose the main phenotypic characteristics and the complete genome sequence and annotation of Planococcus massiliensis strain ES2(T) (= CSUR P1103 = DSM 28915), the type strain of P. massiliensis sp. nov., isolated from a faeces sample collected from a healthy Senegalese man. It is an aerobic, Gram-positive, moderately halophilic, motile and rod-shaped bacterium. The 3 357 017 bp long genome exhibits a G+C content of 46.0% and contains 3357 protein-coding genes and 48 RNA genes.

Keywords: Culturomics; Planococcus massiliensis; genome; human gut microbiota; taxonogenomics.