ABSTRACT
Actinomyces sp. HMT175 strain ORNL0102 was isolated from a human saliva sample and can serve as a host for the ectobiont saccharibacterium (TM7) HMT957. Its 3.3-Mbp circular chromosome was completely sequenced using PacBio long reads, and it encodes 2,408 proteins and 63 RNAs.
ANNOUNCEMENT
At least two dozen Actinomyces species (phylum Actinobacteria) are known to colonize the human body, primarily the oral cavity. Some strains have not been formally described, and some oral Actinomyces strains are still refractory to isolation in pure culture (1, 2). Actinomyces strains can cause specific infections (actinomycoses), and some have also been linked to oral diseases (gingivitis, periodontitis, and caries) (1, 3–5). Oral Actinomyces strains can serve as hosts for epibiotic/parasitic saccharibacteria (TM7), and there is some degree of specificity in those interactions (6–10). Actinomyces sp. HMT175 strain ORNL0102 was coisolated with the saccharibacterium (TM7) HMT957 as part of a project for high-throughput cultivation of human oral bacteria (10) and may represent a yet-undescribed species. Here, we report its complete genome sequence. Human subject recruitment and sampling protocols were approved by the Oak Ridge Site-Wide and Forsyth Institute institutional review boards. Written, informed consent was obtained from all participants.
Actinomyces sp. HMT175 strain ORNL0102 was grown anaerobically (90% N2/10% CO2) in 100 ml brain heart infusion (BHI) medium (Difco) for 2 days at 37°C. Genomic DNA was isolated using a proteinase K-SDS digestion and phenol-chloroform extraction protocol (11). DNA sizing using a Femto Pulse system (Agilent) revealed a broad peak (15 to 25 kb) with fragments extending to >90 kb. The genomic library was prepared without size selection, using the SMRTbell template preparation kit v1.0 (Pacific Biosciences [PacBio], Menlo Park, CA), and sequenced on a PacBio Sequel instrument using a Sequel II 8M single-molecule real-time (SMRT) cell (30-h run). Default parameters were used for all software unless otherwise specified. The sequence reads were filtered based on quality values and assembled using HGAP4 in PacBio SMRTLink v7. A total of 88,272 polymerase reads (mean length, 54,332 nucleotides) and 462,086 subreads (N50, 9,207 nucleotides) were used in the assembly, generating a single 3-Mbp contig, with a mean confidence value (quality value) of 88.3 and mean coverage of 1,449-fold. To determine whether the chromosome is circular, we synthesized a pair of oligonucleotides (175F, 5′-GTTCATCAGACCGCTTCAAG; 175R, 5′-CGGTTGTAGTTGACGGTCTG) to amplify outward from the 5′ and 3′ ends of the contig, and we sequenced the resulting 0.8-kbp PCR product using Sanger chemistry (Eurofin Genomics LLC). Mapping of the reads using Geneious Prime 2020 (12) identified the continuity of the original contig ends and confirmed that the chromosome is circular and 3,024,208 bp long, with a G+C content of 68.9%.
To predict and to annotate the genes, we used the NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline (PGAP) v5.0 (13). The chromosome encodes 2,408 proteins, 51 tRNAs, 3 rRNA operons, and 6 other predicted small and regulatory RNAs. The genome was compared with other human oral Actinomyces genomes using FastANI v0.1.2 and SpeciesTreeBuilder v1.0 implemented in KBase (14). Based on the average nucleotide identity (ANI) of 96.7% (15) between strain ORNL0102 and the draft genome of another HMT175 strain isolated at the Forsyth Institute (F0384 [GenBank accession number NZ_AFUR00000000.1]), both isolates may belong to an undescribed Actinomyces species most closely related to Actinomyces oris F0542 (Fig. 1), with an ANI of 95%. The genome data will help to study the diversification of oral Actinomyces strains and the specificity of interactions between Actinomyces and saccharibacterial/TM7 species.
FIG 1.
Phylogenetic tree of Actinomyces sp. HMT175 strain ORNL0102 and related human oral Actinomyces strains based on 49 core, universal bacterial proteins, using FastTree2 in KBase. Numbers at the nodes indicate support values.
Data availability.
The Actinomyces sp. HMT175 strain ORNL0102 genome sequence has been deposited in GenBank under the accession number CP068012. The version described in this paper is the first version, CP068012.1. The PacBio reads have been deposited in SRA under the accession number SRX10635573.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the Genomic Resource Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine for the genomic library preparation and sequencing.
This research was funded by grants R01DE024463 (M.P.) and R37DE016937 (F.E.D.) from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.
Contributor Information
Mircea Podar, Email: podarm@ornl.gov.
John J. Dennehy, Queens College CUNY
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Data Availability Statement
The Actinomyces sp. HMT175 strain ORNL0102 genome sequence has been deposited in GenBank under the accession number CP068012. The version described in this paper is the first version, CP068012.1. The PacBio reads have been deposited in SRA under the accession number SRX10635573.