Draft Genome Sequence of Enterococcus faecalis ATCC BAA-2128

Catherine Putonti; Laurynas Kalesinskas; Evan Cudone; Kathleen C Engelbrecht; David W Koenig; Alan J Wolfe

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00575-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Enterococcus faecalis ATCC BAA-2128

Genome Announc. 2017 Jul 6;5(27):e00575-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00575-17.

Authors

Catherine Putonti^{1

2

3

4}, Laurynas Kalesinskas^{5

2}, Evan Cudone⁵, Kathleen C Engelbrecht⁶, David W Koenig⁶, Alan J Wolfe⁴

Affiliations

¹ Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA cputonti@luc.edu.
² Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
³ Department of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Health Sciences Division, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, USA.
⁵ Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁶ Corporate Research and Engineering, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wisconsin, USA.

Abstract

While a part of the native gut microflora, the Gram-positive bacterium Enterococcus faecalis can lead to serious infections elsewhere in the body. The draft genome of E. faecalis strain ATCC BAA-2128, isolated from piglet feces, was examined. This draft genome consists of 42 contigs, 12 of which exhibit homology to annotated plasmids.