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Journal of Bacteriology, November 2009, p. 7144-7145, Vol. 191, No. 22
0021-9193/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01191-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT

Complete Genome Sequence of Robiginitalea biformata HTCC2501{triangledown}

Hyun-Myung Oh,1 Stephen J. Giovannoni,2 Kiyoung Lee,1 Steve Ferriera,3 Justin Johnson,3 and Jang-Cheon Cho1*

Division of Biology and Ocean Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea,1 Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331,2 J. Craig Venter Institute, 9704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 208503

Received 3 September 2009/ Accepted 9 September 2009

ABSTRACT

Robiginitalea biformata HTCC2501, isolated from the Sargasso Sea by dilution-to-extinction culturing, has been known as an aerobic chemoheterotroph with carotenoid pigments and dimorphic growth phases. Here, we announce the complete sequence of the R. biformata HTCC2501 genome, which contains genes for carotenoid biosynthesis and several macromolecule-degrading enzymes.

Members of the phylum Bacteroidetes constitute 6 to ~30% of total bacterial communities in the ocean, as shown by fluorescence in situ hybridization (4, 6, 8). The family Flavobacteriaceae, one of the major phylogenetic lineages in the phylum Bacteroidetes, forms a well-defined clade in the 16S rRNA gene phylogeny (2). Members of the family Flavobacteriaceae are gram negative, non-spore forming, and have low DNA G+C contents (27 to 44 mol%). They are short to moderately long rods that cannot degrade crystalline cellulose, according to the description of the family (1). They have been considered to be typical chemoheterotrophs that have the ability to degrade high-molecular-weight compounds. Some bacterial species from the genera Polaribacter and Dokdonia in the family Flavobacteriaceae have also been shown to have the light-dependent proton pump proteorhodopsin and display light-stimulated photoheterotrophic growth (9, 10).

Robiginitalea biformata HTCC2501 was originally isolated from the Sargasso Sea (Atlantic Ocean) by dilution-to-extinction culturing; based on the organism's low level of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to known members of the family Flavobacteriaceae, its distinctively high DNA G+C content, and carotenoid pigments, it was identified as a member of a new genus of Flavobacteriaceae (3). Recently, another member of the genus Robiginitalea, R. myxolifaciens (12), which exhibits ca. 8.5% DNA-DNA relatedness to strain HTCC2501, was reported to produce the monocyclic carotenoid (3R, 2'S)-myxol (12, 16). As the species name implies, the morphology of R. biformata varies from straight rods (in exponential phase) to coccoid cells (in stationary phase) (3), which is also observed for R. myxolifaciens (12).

Here, we report the genome sequence of R. biformata HTCC2501, which was initially determined by the J. Craig Venter Institute as a part of the Moore Foundation Microbial Genome Sequencing Project (http://www.moore.org/microgenome) and completed in the present study. Gaps between contigs were closed using direct sequencing of combinatorial PCR products by Genotech Co., Ltd. (Republic of Korea). The finished genome contig was analyzed by a genome annotation system built on GenDB (13) at the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing at Oregon State University or by the NCBI Prokaryotic Genomes Automatic Annotation Pipeline (5). The R. biformata HTCC2501 genome contains one circular chromosome of 3,530,383 bp with no plasmid and a 55.29% G+C content. The number of protein coding genes is 3,211; there are two copies of 16S-23S-5S rRNA genes and 40 tRNA genes encoding 20 aminoacyl-tRNAs. No prophage sequences were found in the genome by the Phage_Finder program (7). The genome comprises a normal complement of genes for metabolic enzymes involved in aerobic respiration, morphogenesis (rod shape-determining protein), and the biosynthesis of 20 amino acids, fatty acids, menaquinone, and phylloquinone, as well as essential genes including those for nucleotide metabolism, transcription, replication, and protein synthesis.

R. biformata HTCC2501 forms colonies with a characteristic rusty red pigment (3). The complete genome contains genes for carotenoid biosynthesis but no genes for phototrophy, confirming the organism's obligately chemoheterotrophic metabolism. The genome of strain HTCC2501 has a set of genes for a putative carbon monoxide dehydrogenase and enzymes required to degrade high-molecular-weight compounds, including protease, sulfatase, pectinase, chitinase, {alpha}-amylases, and a predicted glycogen debranching enzyme. Aerobic carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation is an important biogeochemical process in marine environments (11, 14), and it is mediated by aerobic-type CO dehydrogenase (CODH), a molybdopterin protein (15). Although the genome contains genes (coxL and coxS) for a putative aerobic-type CODH, a complete pathway for CO utilization could not be reconstructed in strain HTCC2501 because the HTCC2501 genome lacks coxM and other genes that are thought to be required to produce a functional molybdopterin CODH.

Flavobacterial monocyclic carotenoids, such as saproxanthin and myxol, are rarely found in nature but were demonstrated previously to show significant antioxidative activities against lipid peroxidation and neuroprotective effects against L-glutamate toxicity (16). As Shindo et al. (16) suggested, members of the Flavobacteriaceae may be promising sources of diverse novel monocyclic carotenoids. Thus, the HTCC2501 genome may provide a model for studying the biosynthesis of carotenoid congeners produced by marine Flavobacteriaceae and related species.

Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.

The complete genome sequence of R. biformata HTCC2501 was deposited in GenBank under accession number CP001712. The GenDB-generated data were also processed to be accessible in the Marine Microbial Genomics database at Oregon State University (http://bioinfo.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/microbes/).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The initial phase of sequencing, assembly, and annotation efforts were carried out at the Oregon State University High Throughput Culturing Laboratory with support from a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation investigator award and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Marine Microbiology Initiative (http://www.moore.org/marine-micro.aspx). The present work was supported by the 21C Frontier Program of Microbial Genomics and Applications, funded by the MEST, and the Marine and Extreme Genome Research Center Program, funded by the MLTM, Republic of Korea.

We thank Jason Miller, Granger Sutton, Saul A. Kravitz, Robert Friedman, and Yu-Hui Rogers for their technical and scientific support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation-funded project. We are also grateful to Haeyoung Jeong (KRIBB) for his graceful bioinformatics support.


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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Biology and Ocean Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea. Phone: 82-32-860-7711. Fax: 82-32-232-0541. E-mail: chojc{at}inha.ac.kr Back

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{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 18 September 2009. Back

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Journal of Bacteriology, November 2009, p. 7144-7145, Vol. 191, No. 22
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