Genome Sequence of Kocuria palustris Strain CD07_3 Isolated from the Duodenal Mucosa of a Celiac Disease Patient.

We report here the 2.8-Mb genome of Kocuria palustris strain CD07_3 isolated from the duodenal mucosa of a celiac disease (CD) patient. The genome of the bacterium consists of specific virulence factor genes and antibiotic resistance genes that depict its pathogenic potential.

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT

Intestinal microbes are important in health and disease (1). Imbalanced intestinal microbial structure and some microbes are associated with celiac disease (CD) (2–4). CD is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine in which certain pathogenic microbes modulate the disease presentation (5), suggesting the importance of each pathogenic microbe in disease. Kocuria palustris has rarely been reported in the literature. Although K. palustris DSM 11925T caused unusual corneal infection early in the course of peripheral ulcerative keratitis in a patient (6), this is the first time to our knowledge that this microbe has been reported from a CD patient. In this instance, whole-genome sequencing of microbes can provide better insight into annotations for predicting their role in disease outcome (7). Here, we report the draft genome of the K. palustris strain CD07_3 isolated from the duodenal mucosa of a CD patient and specific annotations that reveal its pathogenic potential.

We report here the draft genome sequence of the K. palustris strain CD07_3 isolated from the duodenal mucosa of a CD patient of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. The study was approved by the ethics committee of PGIMER, and a written consent was obtained from the participant. The subject was tTG IgA-antibody (Ab) positive (128 U/ml) and presented with dyspepsia, fatigability, short stature, and body aches.

Genomic DNA was extracted from a 48-h-old culture using the ZR fungal/bacterial DNA MiniPrep, as per the manufacturer’s instructions. The genome of K. palustris strain CD07_3 was sequenced using the Illumina-HiSeq 1000 technology. A total of 13,272,656 reads were generated, amounting to 1,278,722,539 bp, and were de novo assembled into 18 contigs using CLC Genomics Workbench version 7.5.1 (CLC bio, Aarhus, Denmark), with a total length of 2,833,422 bp and mean coverage of 100×. The assembly has an N50 of 416,347 bp and average contig length of 157,412 bp, with a mean G+C content of 70.4%. The functional annotation was carried out by Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology (RAST) (8). tRNA was predicted by ARAGORN (9) and rRNA genes by RNAmmer 1.2 (10). The genome contains a predicted total of 2,509 coding sequences (CDSs), 3 rRNAs, and 50 tRNAs.

Whole-genome annotation available at the RAST server shows that K. palustris strain CD07_3 contains genes of vancomycin B-type resistance protein VanW, DNA helicase, phage-associated genes, an AMP-dependent synthetase/ligase in alkaline synthesis cluster, excinuclease ABC subunit A, uracil-DNA glycosylase, family 1, cell division inhibitor, maltose/maltodextrin ABC transporter, substrate binding periplasmic protein MalE, and glutamine synthetase type 1 (EC 6.3.1.2). The functional comparison of genome sequences available on the RAST server revealed the closest neighbors of K. palustris strain CD07_3 to be Kocuria rhizophila DC2201 (score, 516), followed by K. rhizophila P7-4 (score, 419), Arthrobacter sp. strain FB24 (score, 386), and Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6 (score, 353).

Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.

This whole-genome shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession no. LQBJ00000000. The version described in this paper is the first version, LQBJ01000000.