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Establishing Stable Binary Cultures of Symbiotic Saccharibacteria from the Oral Cavity

Many bacterial species cannot be cultured in the laboratory using standard methods, posing a significant barrier to studying the majority of microbial ...

The Forsyth Institute

Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Strain AC001 is a cultured representative of human microbial taxon 488, a bacterium from the candidate phylum  It is an obligate parasite with a genome of <0.9 Mb and grows in coculture with its host,  The complete genome sequence is presented here.

Complete Genome Sequence of Strain AC001, a Novel Cultured Member of the Human Oral Microbiome from the Candidate Phylum  (TM7).

Strain PM004 is a cultured representative of human microbial taxon 955, a bacterium from the phylum  It is an obligate parasite with a genome of <0.9 Mb and can be grown in coculture with its host,  The complete genome sequence is presented here.

Complete Genome Sequence of Strain PM004, a Novel Cultured Member of the Human Oral Microbiome from the Candidate Phylum  (TM7).

The vast majority of bacteria on earth have not yet been cultivated. There are many bacterial phyla with no cultivated examples including most members of the Candidate Phylum Radiation with the exception of human oral isolates from the phylum Saccharibacteria.

Pallavi P. Murugkar

The Forsyth Institute

Establishing Stable Binary Cultures of Symbiotic Saccharibacteria from the Oral Cavity