ABSTRACT
Starmerella bacillaris is a fermentative yeast commonly found in vineyards. Here, we present the draft genome sequence of S. bacillaris PAS13, a nonconventional enological yeast with a potential role as a biocontrol agent. This gene sequence will provide insights into the genetic basis of yeast activity against gray mold disease (Botrytis cinerea).
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT
To reduce the use of pesticides, biocontrol agents have been developed as potential alternatives to agrochemicals in integrated crop management (1). They can be a relevant part of an effective strategy to improve sustainable agricultural systems. In this context, several nonconventional yeasts, such as Candida intermedia, Sporidiobolus pararoseus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sa. cerevisiae), and Starmerella bacillaris (St. bacillaris) (formerly Candida zemplinina) have been studied, given their ability to produce volatile organic compounds endowed with biocontrol activity against Botrytis cinerea. Moreover, St. bacillaris activity against gray mold has also been demonstrated in vivo on grape berries (2, 3). Furthermore, wine cofermentations (sequential or mixed inoculum) using St. bacillaris and Sa. cerevisiae have been widely investigated in recent years. These fermentations were characterized by the complementary consumption of glucose (by Sa. cerevisiae) and fructose (by St. bacillaris) with a consequent increase in glycerol and succinic acid contents, which is associated with low ethanol and acetoin production. This is an interesting feature for the improvement of wine quality and the reduction of ethanol content in wine (4–6).
St. bacillaris is commonly found in enological environments (7). Here, we present the draft genome sequence of St. bacillaris PAS13, isolated from destemmed dried grapes of the Raboso Piave variety, cultivated in the Bagnoli DOC (Guaranteed Origin Name) area in northeast Italy.
For genomic DNA extraction, zymolyase digestion followed by standard phenol-chloroform purification, as described by Vaughan-Martini and Martini (8), was used. Illumina 1-kb mate-paired libraries were prepared at the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics (Sydney, Australia) and run on an Illumina NextSeq 500 platform. The sequencing resulted in a 147-fold genome coverage using 9,651,388 high-quality paired-end (2 × 150-bp) and unpaired reads. The de novo assembly was performed using SPAdes version 3.10 (with option -k 21,33,55,77,99,127) (9), generating a draft genome of 9.4 Mb with a GC content of 39.45%. The high quality of the assembly was proved by the presence of only 67 contigs in the genome (N50 length of 318,510 bp). GeneMark-ES software was used for predicting protein-coding sequences (CDSs) (10), and the results indicated the presence of 4,321 CDSs and 4,322 exons. According to Lemos Junior et al. (11), two different approaches were used for gene annotation, namely, BlastKOALA (12) and RPS BLAST. The first approach used members of the Saccharomycetaceae family as the taxonomy group to generate a nonredundant set of KEGG genes. The second approach was used to compare protein sequences with eukaryotic orthologous groups of proteins (KOG) (13). The St. bacillaris PAS13 genome reported here will help in understanding the metabolism of this yeast and its potential role as a biocontrol agent in vineyards.
Accession number(s).
The whole-genome shotgun project of St. bacillaris PAS13 has been deposited in DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession no. MWPI00000000. The version described in this paper is the first version, MWPI01000000.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This research was funded in part by MIUR (Ministero dell’Istruzione, Dell’Università e della Ricerca) project no. 60A08-4840/13 and 60A08-9152/11. W.J.F.L., Jr., was financially supported by CAPES–Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.
We thank Consorzio Vini D. O. C. Bagnoli for providing grape must samples.
Footnotes
Citation Lemos Junior WJF, Treu L, da Silva Duarte V, Carlot M, Nadai C, Campanaro S, Giacomini A, Corich V. 2017. Whole-genome sequence of Starmerella bacillaris PAS13, a nonconventional enological yeast with antifungal activity. Genome Announc 5:e00788-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00788-17.
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