Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Streptococcus varani sp. nov

S Bakour; J Rathored; C I Lo; O Mediannikov; M Beye; C B Ehounoud; P Biagini; D Raoult; P-E Fournier; F Fenollar

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2016.03.004

Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Streptococcus varani sp. nov

New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Mar 19:11:93-102. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.03.004. eCollection 2016 May.

Authors

S Bakour¹, J Rathored¹, C I Lo², O Mediannikov², M Beye¹, C B Ehounoud¹, P Biagini³, D Raoult⁴, P-E Fournier¹, F Fenollar²

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille cedex 05, France.
² Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille cedex 05, France; Campus international UCAD-IRD, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Equipe Emergence et Co-évolution Virale, UMR 7268 - Aix-Marseille Université/ EFS / CNRS, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
⁴ Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm U1095, Faculté de médecine, Marseille cedex 05, France; Campus international UCAD-IRD, Dakar, Senegal; Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Strain FF10(T) (= CSUR P1489 = DSM 100884) was isolated from the oral cavity of a lizard (Varanus niloticus) in Dakar, Senegal. Here we used a polyphasic study including phenotypic and genomic analyses to describe the strain FF10(T). Results support strain FF10(T) being a Gram-positive coccus, facultative anaerobic bacterium, catalase-negative, non-motile and non-spore forming. The sequenced genome counts 2.46 Mb with one chromosome but no plasmid. It exhibits a G+C content of 40.4% and contains 2471 protein-coding and 45 RNA genes. On the basis of these data, we propose the creation of Streptococcus varani sp. nov.

Keywords: Culturomics; Streptococcus varani; Varanus niloticus; genome; taxonogenomics.