Genome Sequence of Penicillium capsulatum Strain ATCC 48735, a Rare Penicillium Species Used in Paper Manufactories but That Recently Caused Invasive Infection

Ying Yang; Min Chen; Zongwei Li; Abdullah M S Al-Hatmi; Qiang Ye; Huipeng Chen; Shengqi Wang; Wanqing Liao; Junzhi Wang

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00307-15

Genome Sequence of Penicillium capsulatum Strain ATCC 48735, a Rare Penicillium Species Used in Paper Manufactories but That Recently Caused Invasive Infection

Genome Announc. 2015 May 21;3(3):e00307-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00307-15.

Authors

Ying Yang, Min Chen, Zongwei Li¹, Abdullah M S Al-Hatmi, Qiang Ye², Huipeng Chen³, Shengqi Wang¹, Wanqing Liao⁴, Junzhi Wang⁵

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China.
² National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China.
³ Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, China.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China [email protected] [email protected].
⁵ National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China [email protected] [email protected].

Abstract

The genus Penicillium phylogenetically belongs to Trichocomaceae, with approximately 300 reported species. The majority of these species are saprobic and commonly occur in soil. This paper reports the genome sequence of Penicillium capsulatum strain ATCC 48735, a rare Penicillium species used in paper manufactories and that was recently reported as a human-invasive opportunist.