Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium houstonense Strain ATCC 49403T

Anthony Levasseur; Shady Asmar; Catherine Robert; Michel Drancourt

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00443-16

Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium houstonense Strain ATCC 49403T

Genome Announc. 2016 May 26;4(3):e00443-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00443-16.

Authors

Anthony Levasseur¹, Shady Asmar¹, Catherine Robert¹, Michel Drancourt²

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, CNRS, UMR 7278, IRD 198, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France.
² Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, CNRS, UMR 7278, IRD 198, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France [email protected].

Abstract

Mycobacterium houstonense is a nontuberculous species rarely responsible for human infection. The draft genome of M. houstonense ATCC 49403(T) comprises 6,451,020 bp, exhibiting a 66.96% G+C content, 5,881 protein-coding genes, and 65 predicted RNA genes.