High-quality genome sequence and description of Paenibacillus dakarensis sp. nov.

• Main Authors: C.I. Lo, S.A. Sankar, B. Fall, B. Sambe-Ba, O. Mediannikov, C. Robert, N. Faye, B. Wade, D. Raoult, P.-E. Fournier, F. Fenollar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016-03-01
• Series: New Microbes and New Infections
• Subjects: Culturomics; genome; Paenibacillus dakarensis; taxono-genomics
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297516000135
• ISSN: 2052-2975

Strain FF9T was isolated in Dakar (Senegal) from a blood-culture taken from a 16-month-old child. MALDI-TOF analysis did not allow for identification. After sequencing, strain FF9T exhibited 98.18% similarity with the 16SrRNA sequence of Paenibacillus uliginis. A polyphasic study of phenotypic and genomic analyses showed that strain FF9T is Gram variable, catalase-positive, and presents a genome of 4,569,428 bp (one chromosome but no plasmid) with 4,427genes (4,352 protein-coding and 75 RNA genes (including 3 rRNA operons). The G+C content is 45.7%. On the basis of these genomic and phenotypic data analyses, we propose the creation of Paenibacillus dakarensis strain FF9T.