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Genome Sequence of Campylobacter jejuni strain 327, a strain isolated from a turkey slaughterhouse

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Abstract

Campylobacter is one of the leading causes of food-borne gastroenteritis and has a high prevalence in poultry. Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni 327 is a subspecies of the genus Campylobacter of the family Campylobacteraceae in the phylum Proteobacteria. The microaerophilic, spiral shaped, catalase positive bacterium obtains energy from the metabolism of amino acids and Krebs cycle intermediates. Strain 327 was isolated from a turkey slaughter production line and is considered environmentally sensitive to food processing (cold, heat, drying) and storage conditions. The 327 whole genome shotgun sequence of 1,618,613 bp long consists of 1,740 protein-coding genes, 46 tRNA genes and 3 rRNA operons. A protein based BLAST analysis places the turkey isolate 327 close to the human clinical strain 81116 (NCTC 11828).

Introduction

Campylobacter is known worldwide as a common cause of human bacterial diarrhea; however, it is commensal in the gastrointestinal tract of many domestic and wild animals, especially birds. In 2008, campylobacteriosis remained the most frequently reported zoonotic disease in humans in the European Union with 190,566 confirmed cases [1]. Broiler meat and broiler flocks throughout the production chain in many EU-Member States, along with raw milk were reported as the most important food vehicles in food-borne Campylobacter outbreaks in 2008.

Classification and features

The genus Campylobacter belongs to the Epsilonproteobacteria [2] and is classified in the family Campylobacteraceae [3, Table 1], which includes the genera Campylobacter, Arcobacter, Dehalospirillum and Sulfurospirillum. The closest genetically related genera are Helicobacter and Wolinella, which together belong to the family Helicobacteraceae [7,22]. Currently, available genomes of the genus Campylobacter comprises 29 species and 4 subspecies (see phylogenetic tree, Figure 1). The most commonly isolated pathogenic species are C. jejuni, C. coli and C. fetus. All these species have small genomes (1.6–2.0 megabases) and can establish long-term associations with their hosts, sometimes with pathogenic consequences. Figure 1 shows the phylogenetic neighborhood of C. jejuni 327 in a 16S rRNA based tree.

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Phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA highlighting the position of C. jejuni 327 relative to the other type and non-type strains within the species Campylobacter jejuni. Strains shown are those within Campylobacter jejuni having corresponding NCBI genome project IDs listed below. The strains and their corresponding GenBank accession numbers (and, when applicable, draft sequence coordinates) for 16S rRNA genes are (type=T): C. jejuni subsp. jejuni NCTC 11168T, AL11168; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni M1, CP001900; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni 81116, CP000814; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni 260.94, AANK01000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni HB93-13, AANQ01000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni 1336, ADGL01000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni 327, ADHM00000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni 81–176, CP000538; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni 414, ADGM01000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni IA3902, CP001876; C. jejuni subsp. doylei 269.97, CP000768; C. coli JV20, AEER01000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni BH-01-0142, ABKD01000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni CF93-6, AANJ01000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni RM1221, CP000025; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni 84-25, AANT02000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni 305, ADHL00000000; C. coli RM2228, AAFL01000000; C. jejuni subsp. jejuni DFVF1099, ADHK00000000; C. lari RM2100, CP000932; C. upsaliensis RM3195, AAFJ01000000; C. fetus subsp. fetus 82-40, CP000487; C. fetus subsp. venerealis str. Azul-94, ACLG01000000; C. concisus 13826, CP000792; C. curvus 52592, CP000767; C. hominis ATCC. BAA-381, CP000776; C. gracilis RM3268, ACYG01000000; C. rectus RM3267, ACFU01000000; C. showae RM3277, ACVQ01000000; Campylobacterales bacterium GD 1, ABXD01000000; E. coli str K-12 substr MG1655, U00096. The tree uses sequences aligned by PRANK [23–25], which by default uses the Hasegawa, Kishino and Yano (HKY) model with empirical base frequencies and kappa=2. The tree is built with MEGA4 [26] using Neighbor-Joining method and 1000 re-samplings to calculate bootstrap values. C. jejuni 327 is found in the C jejuni subsp. jejuni cluster that has a 100% bootstrap value along with the C. coli species. E. coli K-12 was used as an outgroup.

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Table 1. Classification and general features of C. jejuni 327 according to the MIGS recommendations [4]
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Chemotaxonomy

All Campylobacter species contained menaquinone-6 (2-methyl-3-farnesyl-farnesyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) and methyl-substituted menaquinone-6 (2,[5 or 8]-dimethyl-3-farnesyl-farnesyl-1,4-napthoquinone) as the major isoprenoid quinones. The latter menaquinone has not been reported in other bacteria and may prove to be a useful chemical marker of Campylobacter species. Campylobacter jejuni and most strains of Campylobacter coli were distinguished from other Campylobacter species by the presence of a Cl9 cyclopropane fatty acid acid in whole cell hydrolysates [21,27]

Genome sequencing and annotation

Genome project history

Campylobacter jejuni strain 327, one of the strains present in a turkey production line, was isolated from turkey skin surface swabs [20], and was selected for sequencing based on the sensitivity to environmental conditions in food-related environments [28]. Sequencing and finishing were performed by the Department of Biology (KU-NAT) and the Institute of Food Science (IFV) at the University of Copenhagen. The annotation was performed by the Institute for Genome Science (IGS, University of Maryland). The manual curation was completed by IFV and will be presented for public access with the publication of the Genome Announcement article. Genome analysis was performed by the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the project ID 41643 and accession number ADHM01000000. A summary of the project information is shown in Table 1 and Table 2 according to the Minimum Information about a Genomic Sequence (MIGS) recommendations [29].

Table 2 Genome sequencing project information
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Growth conditions and DNA isolation

The turkey strain 327 was provided by Thomas Alter [20], and showed a sensitive phenotype to gentle food processing stresses [28]. C. jejuni cells were grown at 42 °C under microaerobic conditions (5% O2, 10% CO2, 85% N2). Stocks were stored at −80°C in Brain Heart Infusion broth (BHI) (Oxoid CM225, England) supplemented with 15% glycerol. The frozen stocks were transferred to Blood Agar Base No.2 (Oxoid CM271, England) amended with 5% horse blood and incubated in a microaerobic atmosphere (5% O2, 10% CO2, 85% N2) at 42 °C for 24–72 h. The respective cultures were subsequently re-streaked on Blood Agar Base No.2 plates. After 24 hours of growth, a 3/4 loop-full of bacteria was resuspended in 1 ml phosphate buffered saline (PBS, Oxoid BR0014, England) and vortexed to ensure no bacterial clumps. Cells were centrifuged at 14,000 × g using a benchtop Sartorius centrifuge (model Sigma 1–14) and the medium was decanted. The cells were resuspended in 200 µl PBS for genomic DNA isolation using the Easy-DNATM Kit (Invitrogen, K1800-01). The protocol was followed as described by the manufacturer. A yield of approximately 10 mg of total genomic DNA was obtained for each C. jejuni strain.

Genome sequencing and assembly

Pyrosequencing of C. jejuni strain 327 was performed on a Genome Sequencer GS FLX System (454 Life Sciences, Branford, CT, USA) at the Faculty of Biology, University of Copenhagen (KU-NAT). GS FLX sequencing was performed following the manufacturer’s protocol with minor modifications. Briefly, library preparations were done from 3µg of DNA using the shotgun library protocol with Multiplex Identifiers (MID) tags for each bacteria/sample, and DNA was released using heat instead of NaOH [30,31]. Libraries were quantified by qPCR as described in [32], and sequenced on a full GS FLX-LR70 plate. Genome sequences resulted in sequence reads which passed the length and quality criteria of the machine software. Draft assemblies were based on 134,679 total reads with 20-fold coverage of the genome. The 454 data files were loaded into the CLC Genomics Workbench version 3.7.1 (CLC Bio, Aarhus, Denmark). The initial reference was created using the human clinical strain 81116 [33] (NCTC 11828) as scaffold, yielding 133,175 matched reads (99% of match). For de novo assembly the 134,679 sequence reads were condensed to 48 contigs.

Genome annotation

The C. jejuni genome sequences were automatically annotated using the Annotation Engine and the initial GenBank files were generated at the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS, University of Maryland). These annotations and the GenBank files were further refined and corrected at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS) at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) by reference to codon usage, positional base preference methods and comparisons to the non-redundant protein databases using BLAST [34]. In-house Perl scripts from CBS and the Sequin program provided by NCBI [35] were used in this refinement process. The entire DNA sequence was also compared in all six potential reading frames against UniProt. Furthermore, the RNAmmer 1.2 server was used for ribosomal RNA predictions of 5S, 16S, and 23S [36]. The outcome of all these predictions was corrected on September 14th 2010.

Genome properties

The C. jejuni 327 genome was found to be 1,618,613 bp long, and contains 1,740 protein coding genes as identified with the gene prediction program Prodigal version 1.20 [37], Table 3). The average G+C content is 30.4%, and there are 43 tRNAs and 5 rRNA genes found using the respective prediction server [36,40]. C. jejuni strain 327 does not contain any plasmids. Strain 327 contains 10 homopolymeric G tracts (HGTs, defined as tracts of >7 consecutive G-residues), fewer than the other complete genome sequences described to date (29 in NCTC 11168, 25 in RM1221 and 19 in 81–176 [41–43]). Variation in the length of homopolymeric G tracts may be produced by slipped-strand mispairing during replication [44], and can evolutionarily affect changes on the genome sequence. Thus, the number of hypervariable G tracts can give important hints on the genetic stability of the strain of C. jejuni studied.

Table 3. Genome Statistics
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Of the 1,786 genes predicted, 1,740 were protein-coding genes, and 5 rRNA genes; 7 pseudogenes were identified. The majority of the protein-coding genes (97%) were assigned with a putative function while the remaining ones were annotated as hypothetical proteins. The distribution of genes into COGs functional categories is presented in Table 4.

Table 4. Number of genes associated with the general COG functional categories
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Genome Atlas construction

The genome atlas of C. jejuni subsp. jejuni 327 was generated using the Genewiz program (Figure 2). In order to create the atlas, a FASTA file containing the nucleotide sequence in one piece and an annotation file showing the position of the genes were used. The FASTA file was created by concatenating the nucleotide sequences of the contigs. In the atlas, gene annotation, base content, AT and GC skew, percent AT and some structural properties of the DNA were shown. The structural properties are Position Preference, Stacking Energy and Intrinsic curvature which are all related to the flexibility and strength of the DNA molecule [45].

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Genome Atlas of C. jejuni strain 327. The legend to the right explains what is represented from the outer to the inner circle. Shown are the fraction of each nucleotide along the genome (first four circles counting inwards), the coding sequences on the positive (clockwise strand), the AT and GC skew, and the percent AT.

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Available sequence data from completed strains (NCTC 11168, 81116 (NCTC 11828), RM1221, 81–176, 269.97, M1) and ongoing C. jejuni sequencing projects (strains 84-25, 260-94, HB93-13, CF93-6, CG8421, CG8486) obtained from the NCBI database at the time of writing, were used for homology searching of genes in selected loci using the program BLASTP [34]. It revealed a high protein sequence homology with strain 81116 (NCTC 11828), first isolated from a case of campylobacteriosis associated with a human waterborne outbreak [46]. The initial reference assembly using strain 81116 [33] (NCTC 11828) as scaffold created 133,175 matched reads (99% of match). In addition, C. jejuni 327 genome contains only a single tonB gene as compared to 2 or 3 genes in other C. jejuni strains, and lacks the ferric enterobactin uptake receptor CfrA and TonB-dependent outer membrane receptor for iron uptake [47]. Strain 327 also lacks the transcriptional regulator mar A (multiple antibiotic resistance) locus, first described for E. coli [48]. The marA locus mediates global stress response and affects the expression of iron-sulfur cluster proteins involved in sensing O2 and iron. The lack of this gene could explain the phenotype of strain 327 observed under some environmental stresses [28].

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We acknowledge the Danish Directorate for Food, Fisheries and Agriculture, grant number 93S-953-00090, for funding the whole genome shotgun sequence project of strain 327, and the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) Annotation Engine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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