Draft Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli LCT-EC106

Escherichia coli is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that is commonly found in the intestine of warm-blooded organisms. Most E. coli strains are harmless, but some serotypes can cause serious food poisoning in humans. Here, we present the complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli LCT-EC106, which was isolated from CGMCC 1.2385. Escherichia coli is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium thatis commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms. Most E. coli strains are harmless, but some serotypes can cause serious food poisoning in humans, and they are occa-sionally responsible for product recalls (15). The harmless strains are part of thenormal flora of the gut, and they canbenefit their hosts by producing vitamin K2 (2) and by preventing the establishment of pathogenic bacteria within the intestine (12). E. coli and related bac-teria constitute about 0.1 % of gut flora (4), and fecal-oral transmis-sion is the major route through which pathogenic strains of the bac-terium cause disease. E. coli is the most widely studied prokaryotic model organismand an important species in the fields of biotechnol-ogy and microbiology, where it has served as the host organism fo