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The complete genome sequence of Hafnia alvei A23BA; a potential antibiotic-producing rhizobacterium
BMC Research Notes volume 14, Article number: 8 (2021)
Abstract
Objectives
The urgent need for novel antibiotics cannot be overemphasized. Hafnia alvei A23BA was isolated from plant rhizosphere as part of an effort to recover novel antibiotic-producing bacterial strains from soil samples. The genome of the isolate was sequenced to facilitate mining for potential antibiotic-encoding biosynthetic gene clusters and to gain insights into how these gene clusters could be activated.
Data description
Here, we report the complete genome sequence of H. alvei A23BA obtained from the hybrid assembly of Illumina HiSeq and GridION reads. The genome, consisting of a circular chromosome and a circular plasmid, is 4.77 Mb in size with a GC content of 48.77%. The assembly is 99.5% complete with genomic features including 4,217 CDSs, 125 RNAs, and 30 pseudogenes. Thiopeptide, beta-lactone, siderophore, and homoserine lactone biosynthetic gene clusters were also identified. Other gene clusters of interest include those associated with bioremediation, biocontrol, and plant growth promotion- all of which are reported for H. alvei for the first time. This dataset serves to expedite the exploration of the biosynthetic and metabolic potentials of the species. Furthermore, being the first published genome sequence of a soil isolate, this dataset enriches the comparative genomics study of H. alvei strains.
Objective
Bacterial secondary metabolites are invaluable sources of novel bioactive compounds. Many clinically useful antibiotics were derived from the secondary metabolites of soil dwelling bacteria [1]. However, only a small fraction of all known species have had their metabolites exploited in this way [2]. To this end, we sought to isolate novel antibiotic-producing bacterial strains from soil samples collected from the rhizosphere as antibiosis occurs naturally within it [3]. H. alvei A23BA was recovered as part of this effort.
Hafnia alvei is a Gram-negative, rod- shaped, facultatively anaerobic psychrotrophic bacterium. It is commonly isolated from clinical materials, gastrointestinal tract of animals, plant surfaces, soil, and water [4]. Some strains are commensals of the gastrointestinal tract while others are opportunistic pathogens implicated in both nosocomial and community-acquired infections [5, 6]. It is almost never associated with antibiotic production except for the antimicrobial activities reported for a strain isolated from the gut of honeybees [7]. Phylogenetic studies of this little-known species have shown its pan-genome to be open and dynamic with each strain possessing sets of unique genes [8]. Unique gene acquisition is mainly by horizontal gene transfer, and it reflects the adaptation of strains to their remarkably diverse natural habitats. Strains show considerable metabolic pathway diversity and varied biosynthetic potentials because of the open pan-genome making them good mining candidates for novel metabolites.
Consequently, the genome of H. alvei A23BA was sequenced to enable mining for potential antibiotic-encoding secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters (smBGCs) that show little or no homology to known smBGCs. Furthermore, assembled genomes of H. alvei in public repositories are typically of clinical, human or food isolates, to the best of our knowledge, the complete genome sequence of H. alvei A23BA represents the first published complete genome sequence of a soil isolate.
Data description
H. alvei A23BA was recovered from the rhizosphere of a garden plant in Aberdeen, Scotland (57.101 N 2.078 W). It was isolated using an ultra-minimal substrate medium (Data file 1) [9]. Upon isolation and strain purification, isolate was cultivated in nutrient broth (Oxoid, UK) at 37 °C for 24 h. Overnight culture was centrifuged and gDNA was extracted from pellets with the DNeasy® Ultraclean® Microbial Kit for DNA Isolation (Qiagen, UK). Isolate was preliminarily identified by 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison as H. alvei with 99% identity score.
Libraries were subsequently prepared from extracted gDNA by MicrobesNG (Birmingham, UK) for whole genome sequencing. For Illumina sequencing, libraries were prepared using the Nextera XT Library Prep Kit (Illumina, USA) and sequenced with the Illumina HiSeq system using a 250 bp paired end protocol. For GridION (Oxford nanopore) sequencing, libraries were prepared with Oxford nanopore SQK-RBK004 kit and/or SQK-LSK109 kit with Native Barcoding EXP-NBD104/114 (ONT, UK) using 400-500 ng HMW DNA. Sequencing was performed on a FLO-MIN106 (R.9.4 or R.9.4.1) flow cell in a GridION (ONT, UK).
Illumina sequencing run produced 4,973,530 short reads that were trimmed and paired using Trimmomatic [10] v0.30 with a sliding window quality cut-off of Q15. Ninety eight percent of reads were retained, and quality was assessed with FastQC [11] v0.11.8. Mean phred score across each base position was assessed with MultiQC [12] and found to be ≥ 28 (Data file 2) [13]. GridION sequencing run produced 18,642 reads with the mean read quality score of 10.5 (data file 3) [14] as assessed with NanoStat [15]. Paired short reads and long reads from GridION sequencing were assembled with Unicycler [16] v0.4.8.0. Assembly quality was assessed with QUAST [17] v5.0.2- two contigs (one chromosome and one plasmid) were identified with a total length of 4,772,047 bp, N50 value of 4,687,005 bp and #N’s per 100 kbp value of 0 (data file 4) [18]. Assembly completeness was assessed with BUSCO [19] v3.0.2 and found to be 99.5% (data file 5) [20]. Identity was confirmed as H. alvei by ANI analysis using the FastANI tool [21], with the ANI value of 97.8167. Gene and functional annotations were performed with PGAP [22] v4.11 and RASTtk [23]; pathways analyses were performed using the KEGG database [24] Rel 93.0 and the eggNOG mapper [25] vs 2.0.0. smBGCs were identified with antiSMASH [26] v5.0. Genome map was drawn with CGView [27] and presented in data file 6 [28].
In summary, the complete genome sequence of H. alvei A23BA is 4,772,047 bp in size with the overall GC content of 48.77% and sequencing coverage of 256.0 x. It comprises of one circular chromosome (4,687,005 bp; GC content 48.8%) and one circular plasmid (85,042 bp; GC content 47.2%). Genomic features include 4,217 CDSs, 25 rRNA, 92 tRNA, 8 ncRNA, 30 pseudogenes and 2 CRISPRs. Thiopeptide, beta-lactone (both showing little or no homology to known smBGCs) and siderophore smBGCs were identified (data file 7) [29]. Thiopeptides and beta-lactones are known for their antibiotic and/or anticancer activities [30, 31], while siderophores are used clinically as “Trojan horse” to deliver antibiotics to antibiotic resistant bacteria [32]. Gene clusters commonly associated with bioremediation, biocontrol, environmental adaptation, and plant growth promotion were also identified (data file 8) [33]. Please see Table 1 for links to data files 1–8.
Given the quality control measures applied and results of analyses undertaken, we believe Hafnia alvei strain A23BA chromosome, complete genome [34] represents a high-quality dataset that would expedite the exploration of the biosynthetic and metabolic potentials of H. alvei A23BA and would also enrich the comparative genomics study of H. alvei strains.
Limitations
This dataset was generated from a hybrid assembly to ensure accuracy and completeness. Furthermore, the hybrid assembler (Unicycler) autocorrects read errors and polishes final assemblies several times to ensure accuracy. Annotations and metabolic pathway analyses were carried out with robust and validated bioinformatics tools, and smBGCs were identified with the most comprehensive genome mining tool to date. Therefore, the authors are currently unaware of any limitations of the data.
Availability of data and materials
Data files 1–8 described in this Data note can be freely and openly accessed on Figshare (https://figshare.com/) [9, 13, 14, 18, 20, 28, 29, 33]. Data sets 1 and 2 can be freely and openly accessed on the NCBI database. Illumina and GridION reads generated have been deposited in the Sequence Read Archive under accession number SRP251948 (Data set 1) [35]. The genome assembly of H. alvei A23BA has been deposited in GenBank under accession number GCF_011617105.1 (Dataset 2) [36]. The BioProject accession number for the entire project is PRJNA610978. See Table 1 and references for details and links to the data.
Abbreviations
- GC:
-
Guanine-Cytosine
- CDSs:
-
Coding sequences
- RNA:
-
Ribonucleic acid
- rRNA:
-
Ribosomal ribonucleic acid
- tRNA:
-
Transfer ribonucleic acid
- ncRNA:
-
Non-coding ribonucleic acid
- CRISPRs:
-
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
- DNA:
-
Deoxyribonucleic acid
- gDNA:
-
Genomic deoxyribonucleic acid
- smBGCs:
-
Secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters
- ONT:
-
Oxford Nanopore technology
- HMW:
-
High molecular weight
- #N’s:
-
Average number of uncalled bases
- ANI:
-
Average nucleotide identity
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Genome sequencing was provided by MicrobesNG (http://www.microbesng.uk) which is supported by the BBSRC (Grant Number BB/L024209/1).
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This project was supported by Tenovus Scotland (Grant Number G16.04).
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The project was conceived and designed by OKA and AJL. Data acquisition was performed by OKA. Data analysis and interpretation was performed by OKA, NHO, ADS and AJL. The project was jointly supervised by NHO, ADS and AJL. AJL was the principal investigator. The manuscript was written by OKA and revised by NHO, ADS and AJL. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Awolope, O.K., O’Driscoll, N.H., Di Salvo, A. et al. The complete genome sequence of Hafnia alvei A23BA; a potential antibiotic-producing rhizobacterium. BMC Res Notes 14, 8 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05418-2
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Keywords
- Hafnia alvei
- H. alvei
- Genome mining
- Biosynthetic gene clusters
- Antibiotics
- Rhizobacteria
- Bioremediation
- Biocontrol
- Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria