Draft genome sequence of Staphylococcus hominis strain Hudgins isolated from human skin implicates metabolic versatility and several virulence determinants

• Main Authors: Shelby Calkins, M.B. Couger, Colin Jackson, Jordan Zandler, Garett C. Hudgins, Radwa A. Hanafy, Connie Budd, Donald P. French, Wouter D. Hoff, Noha Youssef
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016-12-01
• Series: Genomics Data
• Subjects: Staphylococcus hominis; Draft genome sequence; Detailed annotation; Student Initiated Microbial Discovery (SIMD) project; Metabolic versatility; Capsule
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213596016301325

Staphylococcus hominis is a predominant member of the human skin microbiome. We here report on the genomic analysis of Staphylococcus hominis strain Hudgins that was isolated from the wrist area of human skin. The partial genome assembly of S. hominis Hudgins consists of 2,211,863 bp of DNA with 2174 protein-coding genes and 90 RNA genes. Based on the genomic analysis of KEGG pathways, the organism is expected to be a versatile heterotroph potentially capable of hydrolyzing the sugars glucose, fructose, mannose, and the amino acids alanine, aspartate, glutamate, glycine, threonine, cysteine, methionine, valine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, arginine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan for energy production through aerobic respiration, with occasional lactate and acetate fermentation. Evidence for poly-gamma glutamate capsule and type IV Com system pili were identified in the genome. Based on COG analysis, the genome of S. hominis Hudgins clusters away from the previously published S. hominis genome ZBW5.