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Complete Genome Sequence of Novel Psychrotolerant Legionella Strain TUM19329, Isolated from Antarctic Lake Sediment

Sho Shimada, Ryosuke Nakai, Kotaro Aoki, Norifumi Shimoeda, Giichiro Ohno, Yasunari Miyazaki, Sakae Kudoh, Satoshi Imura, Kentaro Watanabe, Yoshikazu Ishii, Kazuhiro Tateda
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Sho Shimada
aDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
eDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Ryosuke Nakai
bBioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Hokkaido, Japan
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Kotaro Aoki
aDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Norifumi Shimoeda
cTochigi Medical Center, Tochinoki hospital, Tochigi, Japan
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Giichiro Ohno
dTokatsu Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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Yasunari Miyazaki
eDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Sakae Kudoh
fNational Institute of Polar Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tokyo, Japan
gDepartment of Polar Science, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Tokyo, Japan
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Satoshi Imura
fNational Institute of Polar Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tokyo, Japan
gDepartment of Polar Science, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Tokyo, Japan
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Kentaro Watanabe
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Yoshikazu Ishii
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DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00253-20
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ABSTRACT

Here, we report the complete genome sequence characteristics of Legionella strain TUM19329, a candidate for a novel psychrotolerant species isolated from Antarctic lake sediment. The genome assembly contains a single 3,750,805-bp contig with a G+C content of 39.1% and is predicted to encode 3,538 proteins.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Legionella spp. are ubiquitous Gram-negative intracellular bacteria that inhabit aquatic environments. The growth temperature of known Legionella strains is generally between 20°C and 43°C (1, 2), while culture-independent analysis has shown a large genetic diversity of uncultured Legionella spp. in water with a low temperature (∼15°C) (3) and their presence even in cold freshwater lakes (near 0°C) of King George Island in the Antarctic Peninsula (4). However, it is still unclear whether cold-adapted species, i.e., psychrophilic or psychrotolerant species, exist in low-temperature environments. In this context, we attempted to isolate Legionella spp. inhabiting Antarctic cold environments by using the enrichment method (5) with minor modifications. Briefly, 50 g of a sediment sample with 100 ml distilled water was incubated at 4°C instead of 33°C for 3 months. Subsequently, the incubated sample was subcultured on Wadowsky-Yee-Okuda agar plates (6) supplemented with α-ketoglutarate (Eiken Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) for 2 weeks. Next, Legionella-like colonies were picked up and identified. We then obtained the first psychrotolerant strain (growth range, 4°C to 25°C), designated TUM19329, from the sediment of Lake Naga-ike in the Skarvsnes ice-free area in East Antarctica (0°C to 10°C; 69°29′S, 39°35′E) (7). Here, we report the complete genome sequence and the molecular characterization of this unique strain.

For genomic characterization, the isolate TUM19329 was grown on buffered charcoal-yeast extract α-ketoglutarate agar for 10 days at 25°C. Whole-genome sequencing was performed using MinION (Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Oxford, United Kingdom) and MiSeq (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) instruments. DNA extraction, library preparation, and MinION sequencing were performed with the NucleoBond AXG 20 column (TaKaRa Bio, Shiga, Japan) combined with the NucleoBond buffer set III (TaKaRa Bio), 1D rapid barcoding kit (catalog number SQK-RBK004; Oxford Nanopore Technologies), and R9.4 flow cell (Oxford Nanopore Technologies), respectively. Base calling was performed using Guppy (version 2.3.7). DNA extraction, library preparation, and Illumina MiSeq sequencing were performed using a QIAamp DNA minikit (Qiagen, Venlo, Netherland), a QIAseq FX DNA library kit (Qiagen), and a MiSeq reagent kit v3 with 300-bp paired-end reads (Illumina), respectively. Approximately 60,000 MinION reads and 400,000 MiSeq reads were obtained for the isolate. Hybrid de novo assembly was conducted using Unicycler (version 0.4.0) (8) after MinION and MiSeq raw reads were quality filtered and adapter trimmed with NanoFilt (version 2.5.0) (quality score cutoff of 6 and minimum length of 5,000 bp) (9) and the Trimmomatic tool (quality score cutoff of 20) (10), respectively. The contigs were polished three times by Pilon (11). Default parameters were used for all software, unless otherwise noted.

The final assembly resulted in one large closed chromosome with a total length of 3,750,805 bp. Average sequence depth was 345×. Annotation was performed using DFAST (version 1.1.0) with standard settings (12), which predicted a genome encoding 3,538 proteins and a G+C content of 39.1%. To assess similarity, 16S rRNA gene sequences were searched using blast against the NCBI sequence database, and average nucleotide identity (ANI) was calculated with FastANI (13) against genomes of the genus Legionella downloaded from the NCBI RefSeq database in March 2020. Strain TUM19329 showed relatively low 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (<97.5%) and ANI (<78%) values for all known Legionella species. Considering the threshold for taxonomic assignment (14), our data suggest that this strain is a candidate novel species of the genus Legionella. However, the strain shared high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (99.9%) with the environmental sequence (DDBJ/ENA/GenBank accession number AB630760) recovered from a benthic moss colony (moss pillar) of another freshwater lake in East Antarctica (15). These results suggest the possibility that cold-adapted Legionella members are present in other cold freshwater sources.

Data availability.The genome sequence of Legionella strain TUM19329 was deposited in DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession number AP022839. Raw sequence data for this strain were deposited under SRA accession numbers DRR213975 (MiSeq) and DRR213976 (MinION).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We acknowledge the members of the 60th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (60th JARE), especially the terrestrial biology team members for their field support.

This study was supported by National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) through General Collaboration Project number 31-34.

FOOTNOTES

    • Received 16 March 2020.
    • Accepted 30 March 2020.
    • Published 16 April 2020.
  • Copyright © 2020 Shimada et al.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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