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- Title
Developmental Cycle and Genome Analysis of Protochlamydia massiliensis sp. nov. a New Species in the Parachlamydiacae Family.
- Authors
Benamar, Samia; Khalil, Jacques Y. Bou; Blanc-Tailleur, Caroline; Bilen, Melhem; Barrassi, Lina; La Scola, Bernard
- Abstract
Amoeba-associated microorganisms (AAMs) are frequently isolated from water networks. In this paper, we report the isolation and characterization of Protochlamydia massiliensis, an obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacterium belonging to the Parachlamydiaceae family in the Chlamydiales order, from a cooling water tower. This bacterium was isolated on Vermamoeba vermiformis. It has a multiple range of hosts among amoeba and is characterized by a typical replication cycle of Chlamydiae with a particularity, recently shown in some chlamydia, which is the absence of inclusion vacuoles in the V. vermiformis host, adding by this a new member of Chlamydiae undergoing developmental cycle changes in the newly adapted host V. vermiformis. Draft genome sequencing revealed a chromosome of 2.86 Mb consisting of four contigs and a plasmid of 92 Kb.
- Subjects
GRAM-negative bacteria; GENOMES; SYMPATRIC speciation; CHLAMYDIALES; PLANT vacuoles; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing
- Publication
Frontiers in Cellular & Infection Microbiology, 2017, Vol 7, p1
- ISSN
2235-2988
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fcimb.2017.00385