Taxonogenomic description of four new Clostridium species isolated from human gut: 'Clostridium amazonitimonense', 'Clostridium merdae', 'Clostridium massilidielmoense' and 'Clostridium nigeriense'.

ABSTRACT: Culturomics investigates microbial diversity of the human microbiome by combining diversified culture conditions, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry and 16S rRNA gene identification. The present study allowed identification of four putative new Clostridium sensu stricto species: 'Clostridium amazonitimonense' strain LF2^T, 'Clostridium massilidielmoense' strain MT26^T, 'Clostridium nigeriense' strain Marseille-P2414^T and 'Clostridium merdae' strain Marseille-P2953^T, which we describe using the concept of taxonogenomics. We describe the main characteristics of each bacterium and present their complete genome sequence and annotation.

SUBMITTER: Alou MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5767839 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature