Communications Biology (May 2021)

A human respiratory tract-associated bacterium with an extremely small genome

  • Kazumasa Fukuda,
  • Kei Yamasaki,
  • Yoshitoshi Ogura,
  • Toshinori Kawanami,
  • Hiroaki Ikegami,
  • Shingo Noguchi,
  • Kentarou Akata,
  • Keisuke Katsura,
  • Kazuhiro Yatera,
  • Hiroshi Mukae,
  • Tetsuya Hayashi,
  • Hatsumi Taniguchi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02162-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Kazumasa Fukuda et al. complete a new genome sequence for an uncultured bacterium detected in human respiratory tract named IOLA. The IOLA genome is found to be among the smallest and most AT-rich of known human-associated bacterial genomes and surveillance of clinical samples indicates that IOLA is in fact a human respiratory tract-associated bacterium.