Gene and whole genome analyses reveal that the mycobacterial strain JS623 is not a member of the species Mycobacterium smegmatis

Microbial Biotechnology
Maria Jesus Garcia, Susanne Gola

Abstract

Unexpected differences were found between the genome of strain JS623, used in bioremediation studies, and the genome of strain mc(2) 155, a model organism for investigating basic biology of mycobacteria. Both strains are currently assigned in the databases to the species Mycobacterium smegmatis and, consequently, the environmental isolate JS623 is increasingly included as a representative of that species in comparative genome-based approaches aiming at identifying distinctive traits of the different members of the genus Mycobacterium. We applied traditional molecular taxonomic procedures--inference of single and concatenated gene trees--to re-evaluate the membership of both strains to the same species, adopting the latest accepted cut-off values for species delimitation. Additionally, modern whole genome-based in silico methods where performed in a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analysis of JS623 and other members of the genus Mycobacterium. These analyses showed that all relevant genome parameters of JS623 clearly separate this strain from M. smegmatis. The strain JS623 should be corrected as Mycobacterium sp. not only in the literature but, even more importantly, in the database entries, as inclusion of the genome wrong...Continue Reading

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