Abstract
Escherichia coli BW25113 is the parent strain of the Keio collection comprising nearly 4,000 single-gene deletion mutants. We report the complete 4,631,469-bp genome sequence of this strain and the key variations from the type strain E. coli MG1655.
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT
Escherichia coli BW25113 is a common laboratory strain that was created in the laboratory of Barry L. Wanner and was utilized in a method taking advantage of the bacteriophage lambda red recombination system to perform gene disruptions with double-stranded PCR products (1). E. coli BW25113 later became the parent strain for the Keio collection, a major resource consisting of approximately 4,000 single-gene deletion mutants (2, 3). The strain and its derivatives are being used in countless laboratories for a variety of studies, including systematic phenotypic surveys (4) and synthetic biology efforts (5–7). Despite this, the complete genome sequence of this strain surprisingly remained unavailable for the scientific community.
E. coli BW25113 was obtained from the Coli Genetic Stock Center (CGSC) (strain 7636). An Illumina library was prepared from size-selected DNA fragments of approximately 450 to 550 bp and sequenced with paired-end reads of 300 bp on a MiSeq instrument to assemble longer composite reads covering the entire insert (8). All sequences were de novo and reference assembled using the Roche gsAssembler version 2.6. The assemblies were merged and manually inspected before manual finishing with Sanger sequencing reads obtained from PCR products. The resulting circular chromosome (of 4,631,469 bp) was annotated by comparison with E. coli MG1655 (RefSeq accession no. NC_000913.3) using RATT (9) and manual curation. The key differences between the two organisms were accounted for in the genotype of E. coli BW25113 [Δ(araD-araB)567 Δ(rhaD-rhaB)568 ΔlacZ4787 (::rrnB-3) hsdR514 rph-1], with the deletion of araBAD and rhaDAB and the replacement of a section of lacZ with four tandem rrnB terminators as well as a frameshift mutation in hsdR resulting in a premature translation stop codon. As noted by others (3), we observed that the strain contains the lacI+ allele and not lacIq as initially reported (1, 10). The genome sequence also confirmed the presence of the rph-1 allele and revealed 20 substitutions as well as 11 indels (see http://bioinfo.ccs.usherbrooke.ca/BW25113.html for a complete list).
Nucleotide sequence accession number.
The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli BW25113 was deposited in GenBank under accession number CP009273.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the Centre de calcul scientifique of the Université de Sherbrooke for computational resources and technical support.
D.M. was supported by an MSc scholarship from the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies. S.R. holds a chercheur boursier junior 1 award from the Fonds de recherche Québec-Santé. This work was funded by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Footnotes
Citation Grenier F, Matteau D, Baby V, Rodrigue S. 2014. Complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli BW25113. Genome Announc. 2(5):e01038-14. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01038-14.
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