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. 2019 Jan 10;8(2):e01114-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01114-18

Draft Genome Sequence of Pediatric Otitis Media Isolate Streptococcus pneumoniae Strain EF3030, Which Forms In Vitro Biofilms That Closely Mimic In Vivo Biofilms

Edgar J Scott II a, Nicole R Luke-Marshall b, Anthony A Campagnari b, David W Dyer a,
Editor: Jason Stajichc
PMCID: PMC6328646  PMID: 30643873

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Streptococcus pneumoniae EF3030, a pediatric otitis media isolate active in biofilm assays of epithelial colonization. The final draft assembly included 2,209,198 bp; the annotation predicted 2,120 coding DNA sequences (CDSs), 4 complete rRNA operons, 58 tRNAs, 3 noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), and 199 pseudogenes.

ABSTRACT

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Streptococcus pneumoniae EF3030, a pediatric otitis media isolate active in biofilm assays of epithelial colonization. The final draft assembly included 2,209,198 bp; the annotation predicted 2,120 coding DNA sequences (CDSs), 4 complete rRNA operons, 58 tRNAs, 3 noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs), and 199 pseudogenes.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus), an encapsulated Gram-positive diplococcus, is one of the most common colonizers and opportunistic pathogens of the human upper respiratory tract. It is estimated that 95% of children by the age of two are colonized on the nasopharyngeal mucosa by at least 1 of over 90 S. pneumoniae serotypes, which persist asymptomatically in healthy individuals into adulthood (14). S. pneumoniae is the primary etiologic agent of otitis media and secondary bacterial pneumonia following viral infection and causes severe invasive disease, including acute pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis (2, 5). Pneumococcal biofilm formation in vivo contributes to immune evasion, antibiotic resistance, and persistence and serves as a reservoir for initiating local and invasive disease (recently reviewed in reference 6). S. pneumoniae strain EF3030, a capsular serotype 19F, is a pediatric otitis media isolate that is an efficient colonizer of murine model systems (611). In addition, in vitro S. pneumoniae EF3030 biofilms on an epithelial substratum closely mimic in vivo biofilms that form during asymptomatic colonization (6, 8). On the human upper respiratory mucosa, polymicrobial interactions within the microbiome likely impact the mechanisms of disease induction by the pneumococcus and other cocolonizing microbes. Studies designed to delineate these complex interactions are warranted and the whole-genome sequence of S. pneumoniae EF3030 will contribute to the identification and characterization of bacterial factors critical for these processes.

Whole-genome sequencing was performed on an Illumina MiSeq instrument, which generated 1,646,744 paired-end reads, with an average read length of 151 bp (219× coverage). An initial reference assembly of the paired-end reads was first performed against S. pneumoniae R6, from which multilocus sequence type (MLST) (12) loci (aroE, gdh, gki, recP, spi, xpt, and ddl) were extracted. These loci were then used in an MLST comparison to the available completed S. pneumoniae genomes, from which we determined that S. pneumoniae CGSP14 (GenBank accession number CP001033) was the most closely related strain. The raw S. pneumoniae EF3030 reads were then reassembled to the S. pneumoniae CGSP14 genome, using Bowtie 2 with the very sensitive local preset (13), SAMtools (14), BCFtools (15), and vcfutils (16). The exact code for this assembly was “samtools mpileup -uf ./spn_cgsp14.fna sorted.bam | bcftools call -c | vcfutils.pl vcf2fq > cns.fq.” An additional de novo assembly employed SOAPdenovo2 (kmer size, 80) (17) and identified seven protein-coding contigs not in the reference assembly. These were all homologous to previously identified S. pneumoniae genes and consequently were already contained in the S. pneumoniae pan-genome (18). These data were submitted to the NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (19) for annotation. The annotation consisted of 2,193 total genes, including 2,120 coding DNA sequences (CDSs), 73 RNA-encoding genes (4 complete rRNA operons, 58 tRNAs, and 3 noncoding RNAs [ncRNAs]), and 199 pseudogenes.

Data availability.

The draft genome sequence has been deposited in NCBI GenBank under the accession number CP026549. The raw data were deposited in the Sequence Read Archive under BioProject accession number PRJNA432428.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Shauna L. Sauberan for the technical support.

These studies were supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, NIDCD (awards R01DC013554 and R01DC014576), and NIGMS (award P20GM103447). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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Data Availability Statement

The draft genome sequence has been deposited in NCBI GenBank under the accession number CP026549. The raw data were deposited in the Sequence Read Archive under BioProject accession number PRJNA432428.


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