Abstract
Staphylococcus epidermidis Tü3298 is a frequently used laboratory strain, known for its production of epidermin and absence of the icaABCD operon. We report the whole-genome sequence of this strain, a 2.5-kb genome containing 2,332 genes.
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT
Staphylococcus epidermidis is a frequent cause of hospital-acquired infections, exhibiting increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance that are a growing concern. The bacterium primarily causes infections of catheters and other inserted medical devices. The life cycle of S. epidermidis as a normal and dominant resident of the human skin flora affords this opportunistic pathogen with access to these inserted medical devices that is difficult to prevent.
As a colonizing species of human skin, S. epidermidis must compete with other bacteria for space and nutrients (1, 2). Many staphylococci produce lantibiotics, antibiotic-like peptides, as a competition mechanism (3). S. epidermidis Tü3298 produces the lantibiotic epidermin, active against many Gram-positive bacteria (4). This was the first lantibiotic shown to be post-translationally modified, and remains one of the best-characterized staphylococcal lantibiotics, with its biosynthesis, regulation, mode of action, and the nature of bacterial resistance all having been elucidated (3). The optimized protocol for transformation by electroporation of S. epidermidis Tü3298 (5) made this strain ideal for use in studies of gene function via mutagenesis. Subsequently, S. epidermidis Tü3298 has been used in studies of the role of agr (6–8), σB (9), and SepA (10). This strain is also widely used as an icaABCD negative control in biofilm assays (11, 12).
Libraries were prepared for sequencing with Nextera DNA kits (Illumina) and were sequenced on the Illumina MiSeq platform. Contigs were assembled using VelvetOptimiser (Velvet version 1.2.06) and were annotated using Prokka (13). Sequences were assembled into 162 contigs; the average coverage for the assembly was 14.
The S. epidermidis Tü3298 genome is 2,459,658 bp. It contains 2,332 protein coding sequences, 360 of these are hypothetical.
The genome sequence of S. epidermidis Tü3298 will contribute to easier genetic manipulation of this strain, and will enable further sequence-dependent studies in the future.
Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.
This draft genome sequence has been deposited in the ENA under the accession no. CZRO00000000. The version described in this paper is the first version, CZRO02000000.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
DNA was sequenced at the Center for Genomic Research, Liverpool.
Funding Statement
The funders were not involved in the study design, collection of samples, analysis of data, interpretation of data or the writing of this report or the decision to submit this report for publication.
Footnotes
Citation Moran JC, Horsburgh MJ. 2016. Whole-genome sequence of Staphylococcus epidermidis Tü3298. Genome Announc 4(2):e00112-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00112-16.
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