High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of Curtobacterium sp. Strain Ferrero.

Ebrahim Osdaghi,Marion Fischer-Le Saux,Marie-Agnès Jacques,Sébastien Carrère,Ralf Koebnik,Natalia Forero Serna,Stephanie Bolot,Perrine Portier

doi:10.1128/genomea.01378-17

Abstract

ABSTRACTHere, we present the high-quality draft genome sequence of Curtobacterium sp. strain Ferrero, an actinobacterium belonging to a novel species isolated as an environmental contaminant in a bacterial cell culture. The assembled genome of 3,694,888 bp in 49 contigs has a G+C content of 71.6% and contains 3,516 predicted genes.

Highlights

We present the high-quality draft genome sequence of Curtobacterium sp. strain Ferrero, an actinobacterium belonging to a novel species isolated as an environmental contaminant in a bacterial cell culture
The Average nucleotide identity (ANI) data suggest that strain Ferrero could be defined as a new species, a comprehensive multiphase taxonomic study using the type strains of all existing Curtobacterium species is warranted to decipher its precise taxonomic status
Initial phylogenetic analysis of a 1,456-bp fragment of the 16S rRNA gene sequence [16] revealed that strain Ferrero has 99% sequence identity with those of Curtobacterium species, while other members of the Microbacteriaceae family share only 96% or less sequence identity

Summary

Introduction

We present the high-quality draft genome sequence of Curtobacterium sp. strain Ferrero, an actinobacterium belonging to a novel species isolated as an environmental contaminant in a bacterial cell culture. We isolated the yellow-pigmented bacterial strain Ferrero as a bacterial cell culture contaminant at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD, Montpellier, France) in 2011. The strain produced Gram-positive domed colonies with entire margins on peptone sucrose agar medium 48 to 72 h postincubation at 28°C.

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