Draft Genome Sequence of Aeromonas sobria Strain 08005, Isolated from Sick Rana catesbeiana.

Aeromonas sobria is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, and ubiquitous bacterium. We present here the draft genome sequence of A. sobria strain 08005, isolated from an infected bullfrog. It is composed of 66 contigs totaling 4,678,951 bp, contains 4,252 coding DNA sequences (CDSs), four rRNAs, and 88 tRNA sequences, and shows the presence of various putative virulence-related genes.

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT

Aeromonas spp. are rod-shaped, Gram-negative, and facultative anaerobic bacteria ubiquitous in aquatic environments, and they have been implicated in a variety of infections in humans (1–3). Strain 08005 was isolated from infected Rana catesbeiana breeding in Xiamen, China, and identified as A. sobria Popoff and Véron 1981 by GENIII microstation (Biolog Co., Ltd., USA) with a probability of 93.7%. Although there are no reported human clinical isolates of this species (4), A. sobria has been described to be responsible for bacterial pathogens of aquatic animals (5, 6). Here, we report the draft genome sequence of A. sobria strain 08005 isolated from infected Rana catesbeiana.

Genomic DNA of A. sobria strain 08005 was extracted using the genomic purification kit GK1071 (Generay Biotech Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China), according to the manufacturer’s recommended protocol. The quality of the purified genomic DNA was determined using a NanoDrop spectrophotometer (Thermo Scientific) and Qubit 2.0 fluorometer (Life Technologies, Inc.) (7). Whole-genome shotgun sequencing was performed on the Illumina MiSeq system sequencing platform (Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA). The resulting sequence reads were inspected for data quality using FASTQC version 0.11.3 (Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom) (3) and were then filtered using the AdapterRemoval version 1.5.4 (8) and Quake version 0.3 (9) to remove and dynamically trim poor reads. The reads were then assembled de novo using Newbler version 2.8 (Roche Diagnostics) and trimmed with GapCloser in silico. The draft genome size of A. sobria strain 08005 is 4,678,951 bp, with 66 contigs and an average coverage of 109-fold. The overall G+C content of the assembled genome is 57.63%. The N50 contig size is 168,611 bp.

The draft genome sequence of A. sobria strain 08005 was annotated using Glimmer version 3.0 (10). This resulted in the identification of 4,252 predicted coding DNA sequences (CDSs), with an average length of 934.57 bp, four rRNAs (two 5S, one 16S, and one 23S), and 88 tRNA sequences. Various putative genes that could be involved in the pathogenicity mechanism of the bateria were identified, including the immunogenic lipoprotein A (ilpA), chemotaxis regulatory protein (cheY), proteins related to motility, such as flagellar P-ring protein precursor (flgI), flagellar motor switch protein (fli), flagellum-specific ATP synthase (fliI), flagellar biosynthesis protein (flhA), a type VI secretion system, genes associated with drug resistance, such as daptomycin resistance protein (rpoC), fluoroquinolone resistance protein (qnrVC1 and parC), colistin resistance protein (phoP), and four multidrug resistance efflux pumps. This genomic information will provide a reference genome data set of Aeromonas, as well as a useful guide to study the pathogenesis of the organism.

Accession number(s).

This whole-genome shotgun project of A. sobria strain 08005 has been deposited at DDBJ/ENA/GenBank under the accession no. MKFU00000000. The version described in this paper is version MKFU01000000.