ABSTRACT
Hydrogenovibrio sp. strain SC-1 was isolated from pyrrhotite incubated in situ in the marine surface sediment of Catalina Island, CA. Strain SC-1 has demonstrated autotrophic growth through the oxidation of thiosulfate and iron. Here, we present the 2.45-Mb genome sequence of SC-1, which contains 2,262 protein-coding genes.
GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT
Iron is an essential trace element that limits primary productivity in surface marine waters (1). Microaerophilic neutrophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria are involved in the cycling of iron in the marine environment; however, this biological function has so far been predominantly associated with representatives of the class Zetaproteobacteria (2) and with other uncharacterized isolates (3). Here, we present the genome sequence of Hydrogenovibrio sp. strain SC-1, which was isolated from pyrrhotite coupons that were incubated in situ on surface marine sediments of Big Fisherman’s Cove, Catalina Island, CA. SC-1 is the only known iron-oxidizing bacterium within the family Piscirickettsiaceae (4). Similar to the iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria, SC-1 is able to use the energy from iron to grow autotrophically (5). Strain SC-1 is a member of the Thiomicrospira-Hydrogenovibrio-Thiomicrorhabdus group of bacteria, which is known for autotrophic thiosulfate oxidation and obligate chemolithoautotrophy (6).
SC-1 genomic DNA was extracted by bead beating using the FastDNA Spin soil kit (MP Biomedical, Santa Ana, CA, USA) per the manufacturer’s protocol. DNA was sequenced at the Single Cell Genomics Center at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences using a NextSeq instrument (Illumina, USA). A total of 6,336,875 raw paired-end sequences were generated and processed using Trimmomatic version 0.32 (7) to trim the last 5 bp of each sequence, regions with low quality scores (Q < 15), and reads less than 36 bp in length, resulting in 5,349,014 quality-controlled sequences. As part of the standard operating procedure for the Single Cell Genomics Center, quality-controlled sequences were processed prior to assembly using a complexity filter threshold of 0.05, normalization with kmernorm version 1.05 (parameters: k = 21; t = 30; c = 3) (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmernorm/), and a contamination filter with an identity threshold of 1, yielding 2,313,229 high-quality paired-end sequences (8). These sequences were de novo assembled using the SPAdes genome assembler version 3.0.0 (9), generating 41 contigs. The maximum contig length was 263,867 bp. The Hydrogenovibrio sp. SC-1 genome was 2.45 Mb in length, with a GC content of 42.9% and an N50 value of 131,404 bp. Annotation was performed by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Integrated Microbial Genomes system (10), resulting in 2,262 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNAs (1 copy each of the 16S and 23S rRNA genes), and 36 tRNA genes.
Analysis revealed genes that encode proteins for the tricarboxylic acid cycle, pentose phosphate cycle, glycolysis, and carbon fixation via the Calvin cycle and for the oxidations of thiosulfate (soxABCXYZ) and sulfide (sulfide-quinone reductase). Genes coding for flagellum biosynthesis and chemotaxis indicate that SC-1 bacteria have the potential for motility, but this has not been observed under culture conditions. Genes that show the potential for the oxidation of molecular hydrogen (hydAB and hypABCDEF) were detected.
Accession number(s).
This whole-genome shotgun project has been deposited in DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession no. PKGB00000000. The version associated with this submission is version PKGB01000000. Also, the SC-1 genome sequence described in this paper has been deposited in the JGI Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes system and in the JGI Genome Portal under IMG Genome ID 2627853948.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This research was funded as part of the 2017 NSF Community College Cultivation Cohort (C4) Research Experience for Undergraduates (grant OCE-1460892), performed in conjunction with the NSF Science and Technology Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (grant OCE-0939654) and the NASA Astrobiology Institute–Life Underground (grant NNA-13AA92A). Sequencing was supported by NASA Exobiology grant NNX15AM11G. R.A.B. was supported by the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (award 1523639).
We thank Liz Fergusson (Bigelow Laboratory) for setting up sequencing reactions.
This is C-DEBI contribution no. 409.
Footnotes
Citation Neely C, Bou Khalil C, Cervantes A, Diaz R, Escobar A, Ho K, Hoefler S, Smith HH, Abuyen K, Savalia P, Nealson KH, Emerson D, Tully B, Barco RA, Amend J. 2018. Genome sequence of Hydrogenovibrio sp. strain SC-1, a chemolithoautotrophic sulfur and iron oxidizer. Genome Announc 6:e01581-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01581-17.
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