Complete Genome Sequence of Bifidobacterium actinocoloniiforme Type Strain DSM 22766 ^T , Isolated from Bumblebee Digestive Tracts

Abstract

Bifidobacteria are one of the most important beneficial bacteria in the gut of mammals and insects. We sequenced the genome of B. actinocoloniiforme DSM 22766, which was isolated from the digestive tracts of bumblebees. The genome contains 1,548 protein-coding genes, 49 RNAs and two CRISPR repeats.

Critical roles of a housekeeping sortase of probiotic Bifidobacterium bifidum in bacterium–host cell crosstalk

“…We searched the typical genomes of 17 bifidobacterial species ( Schell et al., 2002 ; Sela et al., 2008 ; Ventura et al., 2009 ; Yasui et al., 2009 ; Turroni et al., 2010 ; O'Connell et al., 2011 ; Jans et al., 2013 ; Milani et al., 2013 , 2014 ; Chen et al., 2015 ; Morita et al., 2015a , 2015b , 2015c , 2015d ; Toh et al., 2015 ; Vazquez-Gutierrez et al., 2015 ) for orthologs of housekeeping sortase or SDPs, and found that BF1_0427 was conserved among all these species, whereas the SDPs, especially GHs ( Table 2 ), were specific to B. bifidum . GHs identified and biochemically characterized in B. bifidum so far include BF1_0298 ( Ashida et al., 2018 ), BF1_1449 ( Wakinaka et al., 2013 ), BF1_0299 ( Kiyohara et al., 2011 ), BF1_1506 ( Ashida et al., 2009 ), BF1_1579 ( Wada et al., 2008 ), BF1_0510 ( Katayama et al., 2004 , 2005 ), and BF1_0030 ( Shimada et al., 2015 ).…”