ABSTRACT
The lytic bacteriophage pT24, which infects Tenacibaculum spp., was isolated from the water of a whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) culture pond in Thailand. This giant bacteriophage with myovirus morphology comprised 234,670 bp with 296 predicted genes.
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT
The genus Tenacibaculum is a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae and is an abundant and important component of marine bacterial ecosystems (1–3). We isolated Tenacibaculum sp. T24—a Gram-negative, aerobic, gliding motile, long-rod bacterium that produces yellow pigment—from the water of a whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) culture pond in Thailand. The lytic bacteriophage pT24 with myovirus morphology was isolated from the water of a shrimp-rearing pond in Thailand by screening on T24. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of phage pT24, which can infect the species T. mesophilum and T. discolor.
DNA of the phage was sequenced with the Illumina MiSeq platform using the Nextera XT library preparation kit and the MiSeq version 3 reagent kit (600 cycles). The sequence reads were imported into CLC Genomics Workbench version 9 (CLC bio) and de novo assembled. The obtained linear DNA sequences were confirmed by PCR, with a primer set designed at both ends of the sequence, followed by Sanger sequencing. The coding sequences (CDSs) were predicted by GeneMarkS (4), followed by annotation using Blast2GO (5); tRNAs were found using tRNAscan-SE version 2.0 (6).
In total, 1,182,866 reads were generated (1,290× coverage of the genome), and their average length was 255.84 bp. Phage pT24 had 234,670 bp of linear genomic DNA with a GC content of 28.85% and 4 tRNAs identified. A total of 296 CDSs were predicted, and among the 41 annotated genes were those encoding for DNA ligase, DNA helicase, DNA polymerase, large terminase protein, ribonucleotide reductase, DNA topoisomerase, RNA ligase, and thymidylate synthase. Twenty of the 41 annotated proteins revealed similarities to those of the “giant phage” Sphingomonas phage PAU (GenBank accession no. NC_019521) (7) at 42.9 to 59.7% identity.
This is the first report of a Tenacibaculum phage genome sequence. This newly sequenced genome information will be useful for studies on the dynamics of phage-infecting environmental bacteria in shrimp culture ponds and on the interactions between phages and their hosts, as well as to clarify the impact of lytic phages on the microbial community structure in the pond.
Accession number(s).
The complete genome sequence of bacteriophage pT24 was submitted to DDBJ/GenBank under the accession number LC168164.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported in part by a grant from the Japan Science and Technology Agency/Japan International Cooperation Agency, Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (JST/JICA, SATREPS), and by JSPS KAKENHI grant 26660170.
Footnotes
Citation Khoa HV, Midorikawa Y, Uchino T, Nakai T, Kato G, Kondo H, Hirono I, Labaiden M, Direkbusarakom S, Sano M. 2017. Complete genome sequence of the lytic giant bacteriophage pT24 infecting Tenacibaculum spp., isolated from a shrimp culture pond. Genome Announc 5:e00081-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00081-17.
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