Draft genome sequences of Bacillus licheniformis strains MEZBL63 and MEZBL64 harboring the lichenysin toxin operon isolated from livestock in South Africa

Mohamed E. El Zowalaty, Linda Falgenhauer, Hossam M. Ashour, Oliver T. Zishiri, Stephen Forsythe, Yosra A. Helmy

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Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of two Bacillus licheniformis strains harboring the lichenysin operon that were isolated from healthy goat and horse in South Africa. The genomes were sequenced using Illumina MiSeq and had a length of 4,152,826 and 4,110,075 bp, respectively, with a G + C content of 46%.

Original languageEnglish
JournalMicrobiology Resource Announcements
Volume13
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2024

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Funding

The project was supported in part by funding from the South African National Research Foundation for supporting this research through the Thuthuka Funding Instrument (grant number TTK170411226583), and the United States National Institutes of Health/Food and Drug Administration (USA/NIH/FDA) under award 1U18FD006780-01, the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Arts within the project HuKKH (Hessisches Universitaeres Kompetenzzentrum Krankenhaus Hygiene). The project was also supported by discretionary funds from Prof. Dr Mohamed E. El Zowalaty and from Dr Yosra A. Helmy through start-up fund from the Department of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, University of Kentucky, USA. We thank staff from the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Genomic Center at University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA for their cooperation and help throughout the WGS project. The authors thank the GenomeTrakr Network and the Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Program for Foodborne Pathogen Traceback and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for their cooperation and support. The authors thank the NCBI GenBank submission staff for help with the genome upload, decontamination, and deposition process.

FundersFunder number
Hessisches Universitaeres Kompetenzzentrum Krankenhaus Hygiene
Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Arts
GenomeTrakr Network
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota
NCBI
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Department of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, University of Kentucky
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
University of South Alabama
National Research Foundation South African Research ChairTTK170411226583
U.S. Food and Drug Administration1U18FD006780-01

    Keywords

    • Bacillus licheniformis
    • genome
    • lichenysin
    • livestock
    • sequence
    • toxin

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Molecular Biology
    • Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous)
    • Genetics

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