Oligoflexus bacteria FD111 - Nannochloropsis Pathogen Genome Assembly

Previous work has demonstrated that a novel predatory bacterium, known as FD111, can infect and kill cultures of the eukaryotic alga Nannochloropsis. Here, we identify this bacterium as an organism belonging to the genus Oligoflexus, within the Oligoflexia class of Proteobacteria, was identified as the probable causal agent. Known as FD111, the bacterium demonstrated Bdellovibrio-and-like-organism (BALO) predatory attributes and is the first known observation of an Oligoflexus infection of a eukaryote.

已有研究表明，一种命名为FD111的新型捕食性细菌，能够感染并裂解真核藻类微拟球藻（Nannochloropsis）的培养物。本研究将该细菌鉴定为隶属于变形菌门（Proteobacteria）寡柔杆菌纲（Oligoflexia）寡柔杆菌属（Oligoflexus）的物种，并确认其为该感染事件的潜在致病因子。该FD111菌株表现出蛭弧菌类似生物（Bdellovibrio-and-like-organism, BALO）的捕食特性，同时也是目前已知首例寡柔杆菌属物种感染真核生物的观测记录。