Luxibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the human gut microbiota

S Naud; S Bellali; H Anani; C I Lo; A Yacouba; M Tidjani Alou; N Armstrong; M Bonvalet; L Zitvogel; D Raoult; J-C Lagier

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100850

Luxibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from the human gut microbiota

New Microbes New Infect. 2021 Feb 18:40:100850. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100850. eCollection 2021 Mar.

Authors

S Naud^{1

2}, S Bellali^{1

2}, H Anani^{2

3}, C I Lo^{2

3}, A Yacouba^{1

2}, M Tidjani Alou^{1

4}, N Armstrong^{1

2}, M Bonvalet⁴, L Zitvogel⁴, D Raoult^{1

2}, J-C Lagier^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, MEФI, France.
² IHU-Méditerranée Infection, France.
³ Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France.
⁴ Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus (GRCC), Villejuif, France.

Abstract

An anaerobic facultative Gram-stain positive bacterium was isolated from human gut microbiota. Strain Marseille-P5551^T was considered to be a new genus within the phylum Firmicutes, as it exhibits a 91.87% similarity level with Faecalicatena orotica (NR_117129.1), the phylogenetically closest related species. The draft genome size of strain Marseille-P5551^T is 4 142 938 bp with 44.4% of G + C content. We hereby suggest the creation of Luxibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., as a new bacterial genus.

Keywords: Luxibacter massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov.; culturomics; genome; human gut; taxonogenomics.