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Complete Genome Sequence of Streptococcus salivarius HSISS4, a Human Commensal Bacterium Highly Prevalent in the
Johann Mignolet1, Laetitia Fontaine2, Michiel Kleerebezem3
1Institut des Sciences de La Vie, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium johann.mignolet@uclouvain.be pascal.hols@uclouvain.be.
Genome Announcements
|February 6, 2016
Abstract:
The human commensal bacterium Streptococcus salivarius plays a major role in the equilibrium of microbial communities of the digestive tract. Here, we report the first complete genome sequence of a Streptococcus salivarius strain isolated from the small intestine, namely, HSISS4. Its circular chromosome comprises 1,903 coding sequences and 2,100,988 nucleotides.
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