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. 2016 Feb 11;4(1):e01631-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01631-15

Draft Genome Sequence of the Radioresistant Bacterium Deinococcus grandis, Isolated from Freshwater Fish in Japan

Katsuya Satoh a,, Takefumi Onodera b, Kota Omoso c, Kiyoko Takeda-Yano d, Takeshi Katayama e, Yutaka Oono a, Issay Narumi c,f
PMCID: PMC4751308  PMID: 26868384

Abstract

Deinococcus grandis is a radioresistant bacterium isolated from freshwater fish in Japan. Here we reported the draft genome sequence of D. grandis (4.1 Mb), which will be useful for elucidating the common principles of radioresistance in Deinococcus species through the comparative analysis of genomic sequences.

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT

Although the radioresistance of organisms varies greatly among species, there is a group of bacteria that shows extraordinary resistance to radiation. Members of the genus Deinococcus are the best known as radioresistant bacteria, and more than 50 Deinococcus species have been isolated from various environments (http://www.bacterio.net/deinococcus.html). Radioresistance in Deinococcus species is attributed to their highly proficient DNA repair capacity (14). Deinococcus grandis was initially isolated as a Gram-negative, red-pigmented, radioresistant, rod-shaped bacterium from freshwater fish and named Deinobacter grandis (5). Later, on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, Deinobacter grandis was transferred to the genus Deinococcus as Deinococcus grandis (6).

The draft genome sequence of D. grandis ATCC 43672 was 4,092,497 bp, with an average G+C content of 67.5%, and comprised 4 circular contigs (3,250,361 bp, 389,340 bp, 91,291 bp, and 8,055 bp) and 3 linear contigs (98,058 bp, 108,779 bp, and 146,613 bp). The linear contigs composed a single circular contig. This suggests that the genome structure of D. grandis is made up of multiple circular DNAs, as is the case in other Deinococcus species (D. radiodurans, D. geothermalis, D. deserti, D. maricopensis, D. proteolyticus, D. gobiensis, and D. peraridilitoris) (7). The sequences were obtained with the Roche GS Junior and Applied Biosystems 3500 genetic analyzers and assembled using the GS DeNovo assembler ver. 3.0 and DNASTAR SeqMan Pro ver. 12.2.0. Automatic annotation was performed using the Microbial Genome Annotation Pipeline (8), which predicted a total of 4,043 protein-coding sequences (CDSs). Moreover, all CDSs were manually validated. The tRNA and rRNA operon (5S/16S/23S) detections were performed using the tRNA scan software ver. 1.23 (9) and RNAmmer software ver. 1.2 (10), which predicted a total of 51 tRNAs and 4 rRNA operons, respectively.

The annotation of the draft genome sequence indicates that D. grandis possesses a DNA damage response regulator (encoded by a pprI homolog) and radiation-desiccation response (RDR) regulons (recA, ddrA, ddrO, pprA, and gyrA homologs, etc.), which are involved in the unique radiation/desiccation response system in D. radiodurans (4). D. grandis seems to employ the same radioresistance mechanisms as D. radiodurans. In future, the draft genome sequence of D. grandis will be useful for elucidating the common principles of radioresistance based on the extremely efficient DNA repair mechanisms in Deinococcus species through comparative analysis of genomic sequences. Furthermore, as the D. grandis host vector systems have already been developed (11), this genomic information will also be helpful for improvement of the host toward the efficient expression of endogenous and foreign genes.

Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.

The draft genome sequence of D. grandis was deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/Genbank under the accession number BCMS00000000. The version described in this paper is the first version: BCMS00000000.1.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Shun Fujinami for valuable discussions. Computations were partially performed on the NIG supercomputer at ROIS National Institute of Genetics.

Footnotes

Citation Satoh K, Onodera T, Omoso K, Takeda-Yano K, Katayama T, Oono Y, Narumi I. 2016. Draft genome sequence of the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus grandis, isolated from freshwater fish in Japan. Genome Announc 4(1):e01631-15. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01631-15.

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