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An improved high-quality draft genome sequence of Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T

Abstract

Despite their ubiquity and their involvement in food spoilage, the genus Carnobacterium remains rather sparsely characterized at the genome level. Carnobacterium inhibens K1T is a member of the Carnobacteriaceae family within the class Bacilli. This strain is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium isolated from the intestine of an Atlantic salmon. The present study determined the genome sequence and annotation of Carnobacterium inhibens K1T. The genome comprised 2,748,608 bp with a G + C content of 34.85 %, which included 2621 protein-coding genes and 116 RNA genes. The strain contained five contigs corresponding to presumptive plasmids of sizes: 19,036; 24,250; 26,581; 65,272; and 65,904 bp.

Introduction

The genus Carnobacterium was proposed in 1987 to encompass a group of closely related bacteria originally classified as unusual species of Lactobacillus [1, 2]. The genus Carnobacterium includes heterofermentative, facultatively anaerobic, psychrotolerant, either motile or non-motile, Gram-positive rod-shaped lactic acid bacteria that produce mostly L-lactic acid by fermentation from glucose [3]. At present the genus contains 11 species with validly published names, which can be roughly divided into two groups. As the genus name implies, most Carnobacterium species ( Carnobacterium divergens , Carnobacterium gallinarum , Carnobacterium inhibens , Carnobacterium jeotgali , Carnobacterium maltaromaticum , Carnobacterium mobile , Carnobacterium viridans ) belong to a group that were originally isolated from biological sources such as living fish or foods derived from animal sources [4]. A second group of Carnobacterium spp. has been isolated from cold, low-nutrient environments such as Antarctic ice lakes ( C. funditum , C. alterfunditum , C. iners ) [5, 6] or Arctic permafrost ( C. pleistocenium , C. inhibens subsp. gilichinskyi ) [7, 8]. Owing to an upsurge in investigations involving Carnobacterium strains isolated from novel environments, at present genome sequences have been published for the following Carnobacterium environmental strains: Carnobacterium sp. 17–4 isolated from permanently cold sea water [9]; C. maltaromaticum strain ATCC 35586 isolated from a diseased salmon [10]; C. maltaromaticum strain LMA 28 isolated from ripened soft cheese [11]; and C. inhibens subsp. gilichinskyi isolated from Siberian permafrost [8, 12]. However, to date only one published report of a genome sequence from a type strain of Carnobacterium has appeared, from C. jeotgali strain MS3T isolated from salt-fermented shrimp [13]. As part of a larger project to determine the genome sequences of all type strains of the genus Carnobacterium , the present study determined the classification and features of Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T [8] as well as its genome sequence and gene annotations.

Organism Information

Classification and features

Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T ( = DSM 13024T  = JCM 16168T ) is the type strain of the species C. inhibens [8, 14]. The strain was isolated from the intestine of an Atlantic salmon [14]. The species epithet was derived from the Latin verb inhibeo, meaning “to inhibit”, referring to the growth-inhibitory activity that the bacterium shows [14]. Recent discovery of C. inhibens strain WN1359 from Siberian permafrost [15] prompted a re-examination of strains K1T and WN1359, resulting in the proposal to rename the K1T type strain as C. inhibens subsp. inhibens and the permafrost isolate C. inhibens subsp. gilichinskyi [8].

Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T is a motile Gram-positive rod (Fig. 1). It is a psychrophile that lacks both catalase and oxidase, does not grow on acetate containing media, but grows at pH 9 and in Trypticase Soy Broth containing up to 6 % (w/v) sodium chloride. Strain K1T is facultatively anaerobic and tryptone as a sole source of nutrient promotes growth. The most abundant cellular fatty acid of strain K1T is oleic acid (18:1cis9) [14]. Classification of strain K1T according to the MIGS recommendations published by the Genome Standards Consortium is presented in Table 1.

Fig. 1
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Scanning electron micrograph of Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T. Size bar is 1 μm in length

Table 1 Classification and general features of Carnobacterium inhibens strain K1T according to the MIGS recommendations published by the Genome Standards Consortium [20]

C. inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T [8] was obtained from the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures as strain DSM 13024. The strain was sub-cultured once and was stored as a −70 °C frozen glycerol stock in the corresponding author’s strain collection as strain WN1362. DNA isolated from strain WN1362 corresponding to 16S rRNA gene sequences was PCR amplified with universal bacterial primers B27F (5’-GAGTTTGATCMTGGCTCAG-3’) and B1512R (5’-AAGGAGGTGATCCANCCRCA-3’) as described previously [16] and sequenced at the University of Florida Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (UF-ICBR). The sequence was compared with those obtained using NCBI BLAST [17] with the default settings (only highly similar sequences). The most frequently occurring genera were Carnobacterium (17 %) and unidentified bacteria (83 %) (100 hits in total). The species with the Max score was Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T (NCBI Reference Sequence NR_036895) with a shared identity of 100.0 %, thus verifying the identity of strain WN1362 with the type strain. An updated 16S rRNA phylogenetic analysis of Carnobacterium spp. isolates including C. inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T is presented in Fig. 2 to supplement and expand upon those published previously [8, 14, 15].

Fig. 2
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Phylogenetic tree highlighting the position of Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T relative to other type (green boxes) and non-type strains within the genus Carnobacterium. Accession numbers are in parentheses: dbj, Database of Japan; emb, EMBL database; gb, NCBI Genbank. The top 100 hits by NCBI-BLASTN were input into the Distance Tree function at NCBI [33]. Alignments were converted to a distance matrix using the Jukes-Cantor distance correction model and the tree was constructed using the Neighbor-Joining method

Genome sequencing information

Genome project history

This organism was selected for sequencing on the basis of its relevance to environmental issues in phylogenetic diversity, bioenergy, and bioremediation, and is part of the Community Sequencing Program at the U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute for projects of relevance to agency missions (http://www.jgi.doe.gov). The project is registered in the Genomes OnLine Database [18] and the permanent draft genome sequence is deposited in GenBank. Draft sequencing and assembly were performed at JGI using state of the art sequencing technology [19]. A summary of the project information is shown in Table 2, which presents the project information and its association with MIGS version 2.0 compliance [20].

Table 2 Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T genome sequencing project details

Growth conditions and genomic DNA preparation

Strain K1T was grown to stationary phase by incubation for 36 h at 20 °C in TSY medium without shaking [8]. DNA was isolated from 100 mL of culture using a CTAB bacterial genomic DNA isolation method following the protocol recommended by JGI [21]. DNA fragment size and quality was confirmed by agarose gel electrophoresis and DNA was quantified by fluorometry (Qubit fluorometer, Invitrogen).

Genome sequencing and assembly

The draft genome of Carnobacterium inhibens K1 was generated at the DOE Joint genome Institute using the Pacific Biosciences sequencing technology [19]. A PacBio SMRTbell™ library was constructed and sequenced on the PacBio RS platform, which generated 252,358 filtered sub-reads totaling 752.5 Mbp. All general aspects of library construction and sequencing performed at the JGI can be found at (http://www.jgi.doe.gov). The raw reads were assembled using HGAP (version: 2.1.1) [22]. The final draft assembly contained six contigs in six scaffolds, totaling 2.7 Mbp in size. The input read coverage was 273.1 ×.

Genome annotation

The assembled sequence was annotated using the JGI prokaryotic annotation pipeline [23] and was further reviewed using the Integrated Microbial Genomes – Expert Review platform [24]. Genes were identified using Prodigal [25], followed by a round of manual curation using GenePRIMP [26] for finished genomes and Draft genomes in fewer than 10 scaffolds. The predicted CDSs were translated and used to search the National Center for Biotechnology Information nonredundant database, UniProt, TIGRFam, Pfam, KEGG, COG, and InterPro databases. The tRNAScanSE tool [27] was used to find tRNA genes, whereas ribosomal RNA genes were found by searches against models of the ribosomal RNA genes built from SILVA [28]. Other non–coding RNAs such as the RNA components of the protein secretion complex and the RNase P were identified by searching the genome for the corresponding Rfam profiles using INFERNAL [29]. Additional gene prediction analysis and manual functional annotation was performed within the Integrated Microbial Genomes platform [23] developed by the Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA.

Genome properties

The genome includes five smaller contigs, for a total size of 201,043 bp, and one large contig of 2,547,565 bp (34.85 % GC content) (Fig. 3). For the genome, 2737 genes were predicted, 2621 of which are protein-coding genes. Of these, 2151 were assigned to a putative function with the remaining 470 genes annotated as hypothetical proteins. 1838 protein coding genes belong to paralogous families in this genome, corresponding to a gene content redundancy of 67.15 %. The statistics of the genome are summarized in Tables 3 and 4. Examination of the sequence data for the five small contigs revealed a variety of putative genes encoding plasmid functions such as: autonomous replication, mobilization, bacteriocin production and immunity, toxin-antitoxin systems, and Hg or Cd/Co resistance cassettes; therefore it is reasonable to assume that these five small contigs represent plasmids.

Fig. 3
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Graphical map of the six scaffolds assembled for the genome of Carnobacterium inhibens K1T, DSM 13024. From top to bottom, the scaffolds are: DSM 13024: DR65DRAFT_scf7180000000016_quiver.6, DSM 13024: DR65DRAFT_deg7180000000011.2, DSM 13024: DR65DRAFT_deg7180000000013.1, DSM 13024: DR65DRAFT_deg7180000000014.3, DSM 13024: DR65DRAFT_scf7180000000017, and DSM 13024: DR65DRAFT_scf7180000000019. From bottom to the top of each scaffold: Genes on forward strand (color by COG categories), Genes on reverse strand (color by COG categories), RNA genes (tRNAs green, rRNAs red, other RNAs black), GC content, GC skew

Table 3 Genome statistics
Table 4 Number of genes associated with general COG functional categories

Conclusion

Carnobacterium inhibens is widely distributed in the environment, having been isolated from Atlantic salmon [14, 30], biogas slurry [31], a medicinal plant [32], and Siberian permafrost [8, 15]. In this communication we report an improved high-quality draft genome sequence of Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T ( = DSM 13024T  = JCM 16168T ). Genome analysis of this strain demonstrated a single presumed chromosome and at least five putative extrachromosomal elements.

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Acknowledgments

This work was conducted as part of the Community Sequencing Program (CSP-1165) under the auspices of the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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WN supplied DNA and background information for this project and contributed to the assembly of the manuscript with CLD, AC, and NK. NS coordinated the project and all other authors were involved in either sequencing the genome and/or editing the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Nicholson, W.L., Davis, C.L., Shapiro, N. et al. An improved high-quality draft genome sequence of Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T . Stand in Genomic Sci 11, 65 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-016-0193-3

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