Genome sequence of Lactobacillus johnsonii XZ17, isolated from a C57BL/6J mouse lung

Keerthikka Ravi; Gina J Oh; Bethany B Moore; Gary B Huffnagle; Xiaofeng Zhou

doi:10.1128/mra.00555-24

Genome sequence of Lactobacillus johnsonii XZ17, isolated from a C57BL/6J mouse lung

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Sep 10;13(9):e0055524. doi: 10.1128/mra.00555-24. Epub 2024 Aug 20.

Authors

Keerthikka Ravi¹, Gina J Oh², Bethany B Moore^{2

3}, Gary B Huffnagle^{1

4}, Xiaofeng Zhou^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
⁴ Mary H. Weiser Food Allergy Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Abstract

Lactobacillus johnsonii XZ17 was isolated from the lung homogenate of a healthy C57BL/6J mouse. XZ17 is diminished in the lungs of syngeneic bone marrow-transplanted recipient mice. Long-read sequencing of XZ17 yielded a single genome of 1,948,140 bp, with a GC content of 34.64%.

Keywords: BMT mice; immunomodulation; lactic acid bacteria; lung microbiome.

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