Draft Genome Sequence of Microbacterium sp. Strain UCD-TDU (Phylum Actinobacteria).

Here, we present the draft genome sequence of Microbacterium sp. strain UCD-TDU, a member of the phylum Actinobacteria. The assembly contains 3,746,321 bp (in 8 scaffolds). This strain was isolated from a residential toilet as part of an undergraduate student research project to sequence reference genomes of microbes from the built environment.

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT

Organisms within the genus Microbacterium are aerobic, rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacteria and have been isolated from numerous environments, including human clinical patients (1), pork sausage (2), dairy products and production equipment (3), nematodes (4), and radioactive sites (5).

Microbacterium sp. strain UCD-TDU was isolated from a toilet in Davis, California. Scrapings were incubated overnight in Luria broth (LB) at 37°C and plated on LB agar. Single colonies were picked for serial dilution streaking and were identified by Sanger sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene after PCR amplification (using primers 1391R and 27F). Genomic DNA was extracted from fresh overnight cultures using a Wizard genomic DNA purification kit (Promega). Illumina paired-end libraries were then made from sonicated DNA using a TruSeq DNA sample prep v2 kit (Illumina). Fragments between 300 and 600 bp were selected using a Pippin Prep DNA size selection system (Sage Science).

A total of 2,370,532 paired-end reads were generated on an Illumina MiSeq at a read length of 160 bp. Quality trimming and error correction of the reads resulted in 2,263,498 high-quality reads that produced an overall coverage of ~97×. All sequence processing and assemblies were performed using the a5 assembly pipeline (6). This pipeline automates the processes of data cleaning, error correction, contig assembly, scaffolding, and quality control. The total length of the assembled Microbacterium sp. UCD-TDU genome is 3,746,321 bp, with a G+C content of 68.36%. The assembly is contained in 8 scaffolds with a mean scaffold size of 468,290 bp and an N50 of 1,056,891 bp. During scaffolding, some contigs were merged based on short overlaps and read pair information, yielding a final collection of 15 contigs in 8 scaffolds.

Gene annotation was performed with the Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology (RAST) annotation server (7). Microbacterium sp. UCD-TDU contains 3,667 predicted protein-coding sequences and 52 predicted noncoding RNAs. A full-length (1,488 bp) 16S sequence was obtained from this annotation and was used to assign taxonomy to our isolate. A phylogenetic tree of 200 cultured isolates of Microbacterium species was produced using the Ribosomal Database Project (RDP), which implements a weighted neighbor-joining tree building algorithm (8). Microbacterium sp. UCD-TDU falls within a poorly resolved paraphyletic clade, containing primarily Microbacterium oxydans, as well as several other species of Microbacterium (doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.628065). Because the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Microbacterium sp. UCD-TDU has >99% identity with those of several other Microbacterium species and the phylogenetic relationships within the genus are unclear, we are unable to assign a species name to this isolate. Completeness of the genome was assessed using the Phylosift software (A. Darling, G. Jospin, E. Lowe, E. Matsen, H. Bik, and J. Eisen, unpublished data), which searches for a list of 40 highly conserved single-copy marker genes (D. Wu, G. Jospin, and J. Eisen, unpublished data), and all 40 were found in this assembly.

Several other genomes from Microbacterium have been sequenced, including M. barkeri (9), M. yannicii (10), M. laevaniformans (11), and M. testaceum (12). The 16S rRNA gene of Microbacterium sp. UCD-TDU has a high identity with these other species (95%, 97%, 97%, and 98%, respectively), but none of them are found in the M. oxydans-dominated clade described above.

Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.

The draft genome sequence for Microbacterium sp. UCD-TDU has been included in the GenBank Whole-Genome Shotgun (WGS) database under the accession no. AOSO00000000. The version described in this paper is the first version, accession no. AOSO01000000. Illumina reads are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.157179.