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. 2016 Mar 17;4(2):e00124-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00124-16

Draft Genome Sequences of 10 Bacillus subtilis Strains That Form Spores with High or Low Heat Resistance

Erwin M Berendsen a,b,c, Marjon H J Wells-Bennik b,c, Antonina O Krawczyk a,c, Anne de Jong a,c, Auke van Heel a, Robyn T Eijlander a,c, Oscar P Kuipers a,c,
PMCID: PMC4796122  PMID: 26988043

Abstract

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of 10 isolates of Bacillus subtilis, a spore forming Gram-positive bacterium. The strains were selected from food products and produced spores with either high or low heat resistance.

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT

Bacillus subtilis is a soil-dwelling organism that can also be found in the mammalian microbiota (1). B. subtilis strains can be used as cell factories for enzyme or metabolite production, as biocontrol agents, or even as probiotics (2). However, they can also form low- or high-heat-resistant spores that may survive food processing techniques and cause food spoilage in consumer products. Ten strains of B. subtilis were isolated as spores from food products (Table 1). The spore heat resistance traits of some of these strains were described in a study by Berendsen et al. (3). The sequences of these strains will provide valuable information on genes involved in sporulation and germination (4, 5). Moreover, these and previously published B. subtilis strains can be grouped according to phenotype, and subsequent gene trait matching can be used to identify genes involved in the phenotype of interest.

TABLE 1 .

Genome features and GenBank accession numbers of the strains

Strain ID Strain Isolate source Accession no. Genome size (Mb) Coverage (×)
B4067 B. subtilis A163 Chicken soup JSXS00000000 4.31 1,168
B4068 B. subtilis CC2 Curry cream JXHK00000000 3.98 227
B4069 B. subtilis IIC14 Binding flour JXHL00000000 4.09 434
B4070 B. subtilis A162 Peanut chicken soup JXHM00000000 4.28 237
B4071 B. subtilis CC16 Curry cream soup JXHN00000000 4.2 323
B4072 B. subtilis RL45 Red lasagna sauce JXHO00000000 4.09 197
B4073 B. subtilis MC85 Curry soup JXHP00000000 4.13 285
B4143 B. subtilis Surimi JXLQ00000000 4.2 311
B4145 B. subtilis Cereals JXHQ00000000 4.4 258
B4146 B. subtilis Mayonnaise JXHR00000000 4.26 313

The 10 strains were grown overnight in 10 ml of brain heart infusion (BHI) broth (Difco) at 37°C and harvested at the exponential-growth phase. After centrifugation, the cell pellet was resuspended in SET buffer (75 mM NaCl, 25 mM EDTA, 20 mM Tris-HCl [pH 7.5]) and incubated with lysozyme (2 mg/ml) and RNase (0.4 mg/ml) for 30 min at 37°C. Subsequently, the sample was treated with SDS (1% final concentration) and proteinase K (0.5 mg/ml) at 55°C for 60 min. Genomic DNA was extracted from the lysate with phenol-chloroform, precipitated with isopropanol and sodium acetate (300 mM), and dissolved in Tris-EDTA (TE) buffer. The isolated DNA was sheared to 500-bp fragments in the Covaris (KBiosciences) ultrasonic device for preparing the next-generation sequencing (NGS) library preps using the paired-end NEB NextGen library preparation kit. The libraries were 101-base paired-end sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq 2000 by multiplexing 12 samples per flow cell. Velvet (6) was used to perform a de novo paired-end assembly on each of the 10 genomes, resulting in the draft genome sequences (Table 1). Annotation of the genomes was done using the following steps: (i) scaffolds were uploaded to the RAST server (7) and automatically annotated using the SEED bases method on this server, (ii) the resulting annotated scaffolds were mapped using CONTIGuator (8) on their closest neighbor (identified by RAST) to generate the pseudogenome, (iii) locus tags were added to each feature using an in-house-developed Perl script, according to the NCBI standard, (iv) BAGEL3 (9) was used to find and annotate bacteriocin gene clusters, and (v) the protein annotation was extended using InterProScan (10).

Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.

The genome sequence of the 10 B. subtilis strains have been deposited as whole-genome shotgun projects at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession numbers listed in Table 1.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the NGS sequence facility of the University Medical Center of Groningen (UMCG) for performing the sequencing of the strains. We also thank TIFN for contributing to the funding of the project.

Footnotes

Citation Berendsen EM, Wells-Bennik MHJ, Krawczyk AO, de Jong A, van Heel A, Eijlander RT, Kuipers OP. 2016. Draft genome sequences of 10 Bacillus subtilis strains that form spores with high or low heat resistance. Genome Announc 4(2):e00124-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00124-16.

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