Complete genome sequence of Weeksella virosa type strain (9751T)

Elke Lang,Cynthia D Jeffries,Tanja Woyke,Markus Kopitz,Manfred Rohde,Konstantinos Mavromatis,Jonathan A Eisen,Lynne Goodwin,Natalia Ivanova,Konstantinos Liolios,Philip Hugenholtz,Roxane Tapia,Amy Chen,Natalia Mikhailova,Amrita Pati,Shweta Deshpande,Brian J Tindall,Hazuki Teshima,Ioanna Pagani,Nikos C Kyrpides,Alla Lapidus,Matt Nolan,Krishna Palaniappan,John C Detter,Loren Hauser,Markus Göker,Nancy Hammon,James Bristow,Miriam Land,Susan Lucas,Sam Pitluck,Cliff Han,Victor Markowitz,Yun Juan Chang ,Evelyne Brambilla ,Hans Peter Klenk ,Jan‐Fang Cheng

doi:10.4056/sigs.1603927

Abstract

Weeksella virosa Holmes et al. 1987 is the sole member and type species of the genus Weeksella which belongs to the family Flavobacteriaceae of the phylum Bacteroidetes. Twenty-nine isolates, collected from clinical specimens provided the basis for the taxon description. While the species seems to be a saprophyte of the mucous membranes of healthy man and warm-blooded animals a causal relationship with disease has been reported in a few instances. Except for the ability to produce indole and to hydrolyze Tween and proteins such as casein and gelatin, this aerobic, non-motile, non-pigmented bacterial species is metabolically inert in most traditional biochemical tests. The 2,272,954 bp long genome with its 2,105 protein-coding and 76 RNA genes consists of one circular chromosome and is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.

Highlights

Strain 9751T (= DSM 16922 = NCTC 11634 = JCM 21250) is the type strain of Weeksella virosa, which is the sole member and type species of the genus Weeksella [1,2]
W. virosa strain 9751T was isolated from a clinical specimen of urine and described by Holmes and coworkers in
Strains of W. virosa were detected by cultural methods in the oral cavity [3], the genitourinary tract [4,5] of man, in clinical specimens of pigs [6], the urine of a cow with bladder carcinoma [7], and in the midgut of a Brazilian dipteran [8]

Summary

Introduction

W. virosa strain 9751T was isolated from a clinical specimen of urine and described by Holmes and coworkers in These authors collected 29 strains from clinical samples, mostly obtained in the USA and in other nations and continents, as the basis for their species description. We present a summary classification and a set of features for W. virosa 9751T, together with the description of the complete genomic sequencing and annotation.

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