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Complete Genome Sequence of a Propionibacterium acnes Isolate from a Sarcoidosis Patient

Kana Minegishi, Chihiro Aikawa, Asuka Furukawa, Takayasu Watanabe, Tsubasa Nakano, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Ken Kurokawa, Tetsuya Hayashi, Fumito Maruyama, Ichiro Nakagawa, Yoshinobu Eishi
Kana Minegishi
aDepartment of Human Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Chihiro Aikawa
bSection of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Asuka Furukawa
aDepartment of Human Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Takayasu Watanabe
bSection of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Tsubasa Nakano
aDepartment of Human Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Yoshitoshi Ogura
cGraduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
dDivision of Bioenvironmental Science, Frontier Science Research Centre, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo
eDepartment of Environmental Life Sciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Ken Kurokawa
fDepartment of Biological Information, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
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Tetsuya Hayashi
cGraduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
dDivision of Bioenvironmental Science, Frontier Science Research Centre, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
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Fumito Maruyama
bSection of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Ichiro Nakagawa
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DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00016-12
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ABSTRACT

Propionibacterium acnes is a human skin commensal that resides preferentially within sebaceous follicles and is the only microorganism that has been isolated from sarcoid lesions. We report the complete genome sequence of P. acnes, which was isolated from a Japanese patient with sarcoidosis.

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT

Propionibacterium acnes is generally considered to be a commensal organism on human skin and has been implicated in various infections, including acne vulgaris, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, and prostate cancer (1–4). P. acnes is also the only microorganism that has been isolated from sarcoid lesions by bacterial culture (5). We recently demonstrated an etiologic link between sarcoidosis and this bacterium by detecting P. acnes in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections from patients with sarcoidosis using novel P. acnes-specific monoclonal antibodies (6). However, how P. acnes causes sarcoidosis is currently unknown. The complete genome sequences might help to reveal specific P. acnes genes related to development of sarcoidosis, but so far, only the genomes of P. acnes strains derived from patients with diseases other than sarcoidosis have been fully sequenced (7–11). We describe the first complete genome sequence of P. acnes isolated from a Japanese patient with sarcoidosis.

The complete genome sequence of P. acnes strain C1 was determined using a combination of 454 GS Junior (Roche; 230,769,391-bp sequences, 92-fold coverage) and Genome Analyzer IIx (Illumina; 138,753,576-bp sequences, 55-fold coverage) sequencing platforms. Assembly was performed using Newbler. Gaps between adjacent contigs were closed by sequencing PCR amplicons from genomic DNA. Automatic annotation of the genome was performed using the NCBI Prokaryotic Genomes Automatic Annotation Pipeline (PGAAP) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/static/Pipeline.html). Nontranslated genes were predicted using tRNAscan-SE (12), RNAmmer (13), and Rfam (14).

The genome of P. acnes strain C1 contained a single circular chromosome (2,519,002 bp; 60.06% G+C content). The chromosome contained 2,359 coding DNA sequences (CDSs), nine rRNAs, and 45 tRNA sequences. The all-to-all BlastP analysis with protein sequences of the two sequenced strains, ATCC 11828 and SK137, showed that P. acnes C1 possessed 132 strain-specific CDSs. Several insertion sequence elements on the C1 genome detected by ISfinder (15) showed high homology to proteins of different species of the same genus, such as Propionibacterium freudenreichii, suggesting that P. acnes strain C1 may have acquired these CDSs through horizontal gene transfer from these species. Approximately half of the strain-specific CDSs were annotated as hypothetical proteins. Dot plot analysis comparison with ATCC 11828 and SK137 genome sequences indicated that genome rearrangements occurred between C1 and ATCC 11828 along the replication axis but not between C1 and SK137. This may be the result of the fact that ATCC 11828 belongs to the type II division, whereas C1 and SK137 belong to the type I division according to gene sequence comparison of the recA and tly genes (16). There remain many questions regarding how this bacterium is associated with development of sarcoidosis, but the genome information on P. acnes C1 could promote further genomic analysis and lead to the exact pathogenetic mechanism of sarcoidosis by P. acnes infection.

Nucleotide sequence accession number.The completed genome sequence of P. acnes C1 was deposited in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank database under accession number CP003877.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aids for Scientific Research 18390112, 22592032, and 22659287.

FOOTNOTES

    • Received 8 October 2012.
    • Accepted 15 October 2012.
    • Published 15 January 2013.
  • Copyright © 2013 Minegishi et al.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

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