Abstract
The draft genome sequence of an amylase-, protease-, lipase-, oxidase-, and catalase-producing Gram-negative bacillus (Aeromonas sp. MDS8 strain MCC2167) with the ability to produce ammonia during 16 h of growth at 37°C, isolated from dairy sludge, with a size of 4,841,753 bp and a G+C content of 63.1%, is reported here.
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT
India is a major producer of milk, with an ever-expanding market in the dairy industry, annually producing 150,000 tons of cottage cheese, along with 2 million tons of whey carrying with it 130,000 tons of valuable nutrients (1); meanwhile, the global annual whey production is 108 tons (2). The high organic content of its effluent makes the dairy industry a major source of water pollution worldwide (3), leading to serious environmental adversities. This raises a crucial question regarding the global sustenance of this industry. We present an isolate, Aeromonas sp. MDS8 strain MCC2167, from the sludge of a dairy effluent treatment plant with the ability to convert whey water into ammonia under unammended conditions, thus converting a waste product to a by-product. Strain MCC2167 is available at the Microbial Culture Collection at the National Centre for Cell Sciences, Pune, India.
The genome sequencing of MCC 2167, done on an Ion Torrent PGM instrument using a 316 chip, yielded a total of 1,599,675 raw reads. MIRA Assembler version 3.4.0 was used to assemble the total number of reads (1,465,596) with 46.16× coverage in 138 contigs, with the total data of 48.417 Mb sequenced with 274,598 bp as the size of the largest contig. The contigs were submitted to the Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology (RAST) (4) server, followed by generation of the corresponding coding sequence (CDS) information.
The important genes contained in the different contigs are as follows: genes for the ribosome hybernation protein YfiA; ferric uptake regulation protein FUR; Na+-driven multidrug efflux pump; Na+/H+ antiporter; transcriptional regulator LysR; hyaluronidase (GenBank no. AOTK01000001); type IV pilus biogenesis protein PilF; phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase, synthetase subunit (EC 6.3.5.3)/phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase, glutamine amidotransferase subunit (EC 6.3.5.3); small-subunit (SSU) ribosomal protein S1p (accession no. AOTK0100001); DNA mismatch repair protein MutS; ammonium transporter (accession no. AOTK01000007); decarboxylase family protein; DNA polymerase IV; DNA polymerase I (accession no. AOTK01000008); pantothenate:Na+ symporter (TC 2.A.21.1.1) (accession no. AOTK01000018); arsenic resistance protein ACR3 (accession no. AOTK01000020); nitrite reductase [NAD(P)H] large subunit; nitrite reductase [NAD(P)H] small subunit; nitrite transporter NirC (accession no. AOTK01000057); proteinase inhibitor (accession no. AOTK01000070); tRNA binding protein YgjH (accession no. AOTK01000074); putative plasmid replication protein RepB (accession no. AOTK01000104); alkaline phosphatase; NrfC protein; and NrfD protein (accession no. AOTK01000006).
Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.
This whole-genome shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession no. AOTK01000000. The version described in this paper is the first version, AOTK01000001.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by a grant from the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. We thank the World Bank for providing the publication fee under the TEQIP Program.
We also thank Sourav Ghosh for sequence submission and Debasmita Chatterjee for strain isolation.
Footnotes
Citation RayChaudhuri S, Saha A, Ghoshal T, Thakur AR. 2013. Draft genome sequence of ammonia-producing Aeromonas sp. MDS8 strain MCC2167 from sludge of a dairy effluent treatment plant. Genome Announc. 1(5):e00710-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00710-13.
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