Genome Sequence of the Acetogenic Bacterium Acetobacterium wieringae DSM 1911T.

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Acetobacterium wieringae DSM 1911T, an anaerobic, autotrophic, acetogenic, d,l-lactate-utilizing bacterium. The genome consists of a chromosome (3.88 Mb) and 3,620 predicted protein-encoding genes.

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT

Acetobacterium wieringae DSM 1911T is a Gram-positive, anaerobic, and acetogenic bacterium, which was isolated from mud of the Göttingen, Germany, sewage plant and described by Braun and Gottschalk in 1982 (1). The strain was shown to produce acetate, formate, and ethanol during autotrophic batch cultivation in a continuously stirred-tank bioreactor (2). The genus Acetobacterium includes several autotrophic acetogenic bacterial species such as A. bakii, A. carbinolicum, A. fimetatium, A. malicum, A. paludosum, and A. woodii (3). In addition to their ability to grow autographically (consuming CO2 and H2) using the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, all strains can also utilize lactate for growth. Weghoff et al. (4) showed that the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) of A. woodii forms a stable complex with an electron-transferring flavoprotein (Etf) that can reduce NAD+ in the presence of reduced ferredoxin (Fd2−).

Chromosomal DNA of A. wieringae was isolated using the MasterPure Gram-positive DNA purification kit (Epicentre, Madison, WI, USA). Illumina paired-end sequencing libraries were generated from the extracted DNA according to the protocol of the manufacturer (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA). Sequencing was performed using a MiSeq instrument and the MiSeq reagent kit version 3, as recommended by the manufacturer (Illumina), resulting in 2,191,792 paired-end reads (301 bp). Trimmomatic version 0.32 (5) was used for quality filtering. This resulted in 2,036,834 remaining high-quality paired-end reads. The de novo assembly was performed with the SPAdes genome assembler software version 3.5.0 (6). The assembly resulted in 62 contigs (>500 bp) with an average coverage of 106-fold. QualiMap version 2.1 (7) was used to validate the assembly and to determine the read coverage. The draft genome of A. wieringae comprises a circular chromosome (3,895,828 bp) with an overall G+C content of 44.07%. Automatic gene prediction and identification of rRNA and tRNA genes were performed using the software tool Prokka (8). The genome contains six rRNA genes, 39 tRNA genes, 2,704 protein-encoding genes with predicted functions, and 916 genes coding for hypothetical proteins.

Analysis of the genome and comparison with the A. woodii genome sequence (9) revealed that A. wieringae harbors the identical gene cluster responsible for lactate utilization (lctABCDEF) as A. woodii (4, 9). The genome of A. wieringae also contains two complete gene clusters for the Rnf (Rhodobacter nitrogen fixation) complex, whereas the genomes of almost all other autotrophic acetogenes harbor only one Rnf cluster. To date, only the Clostridium magnum genome is known to encode two complete gene clusters for the Rnf complex (10). A. wieringae contains a gene cluster encoding proteins for the carbonyl branch of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway which is identical to that of A. woodii. In addition, the gene clusters encoding proteins for the methyl branch of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway are similar in the genomes of both organisms. However, A. wieringae lacks genes encoding the glycine cleavage H protein and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (11).

Accession number(s).

This whole-genome shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession number LKEU00000000. The version described in this paper is the first version, LKEU01000000.