Abstract
Strain C5-48T, an anaerobic intestinal bacterium that potentially accumulates acetaldehyde at levels exceeding its minimum mutagenic concentration (50 µM) in the colon and rectum, was isolated from the feces of a patient with alcoholism. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain C5-48T showed high similarity to the corresponding sequences of Lachnoclostridium edouardi Marseille-P3397T (95.7%) and Clostridium fessum SNUG30386T (94.7%). However, phylogenetic analysis using the sequences of the 16S rRNA, rpoB, and hsp60 genes and whole-genome analysis strongly suggested that C5-48T should be included in the genus Enterocloster. The novelty of strain C5-48T was further confirmed by comprehensive average nucleotide identity (ANI) calculations based on its whole-genome sequence, which showed appreciable ANI values with known Enterocloster species (e.g., 74.3% and 73.4% with Enterocloster bolteae WAL 16351T and Enterocloster clostridioformis ATCC 25537T, respectively). The temperature range for growth of strain C5-48T was 15–37 °C with an optimum of 37 °C. The pH range for growth was 5.5–10.5 with an optimum of 7.5. The major constituents of the cell membrane lipids of strain C5-48T were 16:0, 14:0, and 18:1 ω7c dimethyl acetal fatty acids. On the basis of the genotypic and phenotypic properties, Enterocloster alcoholdehydrogenati sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain C5-48T (= JCM 33305T = DSM 109474T).
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Introduction
Chronic consumption of excess alcohol induces colonic lesions, colonic inflammation, and oxidative stress in the gut, increasing the risk of colorectal cancer [1, 2]. Acetaldehyde (AcH) is produced during ethanol metabolism mediated by intestinal bacteria and colorectal mucosal cells. The minimum mutagenic concentration (MMC) of acetaldehyde has been estimated as 50 µM [3]. AcH associated with alcohol consumption is a potential risk factor for alcohol-related digestive tract cancers such as those of the esophagus, colon, and rectum. In 2010, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that alcohol-consumption-associated AcH is carcinogenic to humans [4]. Intestinal bacteria have been implicated in the accumulation of AcH in the colon and rectum after drinking alcohol [5, 6], although the ecophysiological details remain to be clarified. Because colorectal cancer develops from mucosal cells, the populations of AcH-accumulating bacteria inhabiting the colorectal mucosal surface may play a key role in alcohol-related colorectal cancer pathogenesis [5, 6].
Tsuruya et al. comprehensively examined the ability of bacterial isolates from the feces of patients with alcoholism to produce and decompose AcH [6, 7]. They identified various microorganisms that potentially accumulate AcH at levels higher than the MMC in the colon and rectum [6]. These microorganisms were collectively referred to as potential AcH accumulators [6, 7], and included strain C5-48T. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence suggested that strain C5-48T was related to the genus Clostridium [6], in particular, C. sphenoides and C. clostridioforme (see below). Recently, C. sphenoides, C. clostridioforme, and other related taxa were collectively reclassified as strains of Lacrimispora gen. nov. and Enterocloster gen. nov. [8]. Thus, we have carefully compared the taxonomic characteristics of C5-48T with known species of Lacrimispora, Enterocloster, Clostridium, and related genera, and proposed that C5-48T is a new species of the genus Enterocloster, for which the name Enterocloster alcoholdehydrogenati sp. nov. is proposed.
Materials and Methods
Isolation and Culture Conditions of Strain C5-48T
Strain C5-48T was isolated from the feces of a Japanese male patient with alcoholism (AL05) [7] at Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, Kanagawa, Japan, as described previously [6, 7]. At the time of fecal sample collection, this patient was 60 years old and had been a habitual drinker for 40 years, with an estimated average intake of 88 g of pure alcohol per day, and continued drinking until 7 days before fecal sample collection. He had also been a habitual smoker for 40 years, smoking 15 cigarettes per day. For other clinical details of AL05, see reference [7].
Cells of strain C5-48T were grown at 37 °C overnight in a N2-substituted synthetic medium (termed medium A), pH 7.5, containing 0.2% (w/v) glucose, 0.2% (w/v) yeast extract, 0.04% (w/v) KH2PO4, 0.1% (w/v) Na2HPO4·7H2O, 0.24% (w/v) NaHCO3, 0.03% (w/v) NH4Cl, 0.3% (w/v) NaCl, 0.5% (w/v) MgCl2, 0.03% (w/v) Na2S·9H2O, 0.03% (w/v) L-cysteine, 0.1% (v/v) vitamin solution, and 0.1% (v/v) trace element solution using N2-substituted, 20-ml rubber-sealed aluminum-cap glass vials (5 ml per vial). The compositions of the vitamin and trace element solutions used in this study are described in Supplementary Tables 1 and 2, respectively. Agar medium A contained 1.5% (w/v) agar in medium A. Strain C5-48T could also grow on GAM agar medium (Nissui Pharmaceutical, Tokyo, Japan) at 37 °C for 24 h in an AnaeroPak container with an anaerobic atmosphere generation system (Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, Tokyo, Japan). C5-48T cells were stored at − 80 °C in broth cultures (medium A) supplemented with 15% (w/v) glycerol.
Lacrimispora sphenoides (basonym: C. sphenoides) ATCC 19403T [8,9,10] and Enterocloster clostridioformis (basonym: C. clostridioforme) JCM 1291T [8, 11] were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA, USA) and the Riken BioResource Research Center (Tsukuba, Japan), respectively. The cells of these two type strains were grown in medium A under anaerobic conditions as described above and used for comparative phylogenetic, biochemical, and chemotaxonomic analyses (see below for details).
Phylogenetic Analysis
Isolation and purification of chromosomal DNA of strain C5-48T, Lacrimispora sphenoides ATCC 19403T, and Enterocloster clostridioformis JCM 1291T were performed according to the procedures described by Tamaoka and Komagata [12]. The 16S rRNA gene of strain C5-48T was PCR-amplified from the purified chromosomal DNA using primers 8F and 1492R [13,14,15,16]. The PCR products were purified with MicroSpin Columns S-400 HR (Cytiva, Tokyo, Japan) and subjected to sequencing, which was outsourced to GENEWIZ (Saitama, Japan). The nucleotide sequence of 16S rRNA gene of strain C5-48T was submitted to the DDBJ database under accession number LC466003. The nucleotide sequences of genes coding for the β subunit of RNA polymerase (rpoB) and heat shock protein 60 (hsp60) were obtained from the whole-genome sequence of strain C5-48T (see below). Previously published nucleotide sequences of bacterial 16S rRNA genes were obtained from the EzBioCloud database (http://www.ezbiocloud.net) and the GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast). The nucleotide sequences of the rpoB and hsp60 genes were obtained from Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes Genome (https://img.jgi.doe.gov). Multiple alignments of the sequences of the 16S rRNA, rpoB, and hsp60 genes, calculation of the nucleotide substitution rates [17], construction of phylogenetic trees, and bootstrap analysis for evaluating phylogenetic tree topology [18] were conducted using MEGA software version 11 [19] and CLUSTAL W [20]. Genetic distances were obtained using Kimura’s two-parameter model [17] and clustering was analyzed with the neighbor-joining method [21] using MEGA software version 11 [19], with a bootstrap analysis based on 1000 replicates to estimate the stability of the grouping in each tree.
Whole-genome Sequence Analysis
To generate genomic DNA libraries, chromosomal DNA prepared as described above was fragmented to approximately 550-bp fragments using an M220 Focused-ultrasonicator (Covaris, Brighton, UK) and fragmented DNA was quantified using a Bioanalyzer 2100 (Agilent, Palo Alto, CA, USA) with the DNA 7500 kit (Agilent). The genomic DNA library was constructed using the TruSeq DNA Library LT kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer’s protocols. Whole-genome sequencing was performed on the Illumina MiSeq system with 2 × 300-bp paired-end reads using a 600-cycle sequencing kit (MiSeq Reagent Kit v3, Illumina). The whole-genome sequence of strain C5-48T was submitted to the DDBJ database with accession numbers BLTJ01000001–BLTJ01000047. Comprehensive average nucleotide identity (ANI) calculations using the genome sequences of strain C5-48T and other prokaryotes available in public databases were performed using the FastANI program [22]. To clarify the genetic relationship between strain C5-48T and the related type strains, digital DNA–DNA hybridization (dDDH) values were calculated using the Genome-to-Genome Distance Calculator 3.0 server (http://ggdc.dsmz.de; formula 2), according to the method described by Meier–Kolthoff et al. [23, 24].
Phenotypic and Biochemical Analyses
Cell morphology was examined by scanning electron microscopy. In brief, cells during exponential growth phase (see above for growth conditions) were fixed overnight with 2.5% (w/v) glutaraldehyde in 0.05 M sodium cacodylate buffer, pH 7.4, at room temperature, followed by dehydration in a series of graded concentrations of ethanol along with tert-butyl alcohol, and were then sputter-coated on a Pt film. Dried cells were then observed using a scanning electron microscope (model S-4800; Hitachi High-Tech, Tokyo, Japan). Motility was checked by phase-contrast microscopy using a model BX40 microscope (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan). Sporulation was examined with cells grown in medium A to stationary phase by phase-contrast microscopy. Gram staining was performed using exponentially-growing cells according to Hucker’s modification [25] with reagents produced by Nacalai Tesque (Kyoto, Japan).
Bacterial growth was monitored for up to 7 days after inoculation by measuring the optical turbidity at 600 nm of cultures in 5 ml of medium A in N2-substituted, 20-ml rubber-sealed, aluminum-cap glass vials. An uninoculated vial was used as a control to measure optical turbidity. The bacterial growth temperature range was examined using medium A at 4, 10, 15, 37, 42, and 50 °C (n = 3 for each) using a water bath. To determine the pH range for growth, the bacterial cells were grown at 37 °C in medium A, as described above, except that the initial pH of the medium was adjusted with 1 M HCl or 1 M NaOH to pH 5.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, 9.5, or 10.5 (n = 3 for each; all pH measurements were performed at room temperature). Phosphate (pKa2, 6.9), ammonium (pKa, 9.3), and bicarbonate (pKa2, 10.3) ions in medium A could serve as buffer components in the examined pH range, although the pH of the medium was not adjusted during bacterial growth. The salt tolerance during bacterial growth was examined at 37 °C, pH 7.5, using medium A except that the NaCl concentration was 2.5%, 4.5%, 6.5%, 8.5%, or 10.5% (w/v; n = 3 for each).
Comparisons of the physiological characteristics, including the production of H2S, indole, and acetoin, and acid production from carbohydrates, of C5-48T, L. sphenoides ATCC 19403T, and E. clostridioformis JCM 1291T under anaerobic conditions were carried out using API 20 E test strips according to the manufacturer’s guidance (bioMérieux Japan, Tokyo, Japan; n = 3). The cells were grown as described above and resuspended in water containing 0.85% (w/v) NaCl. The cell suspensions (200 µl) were added to the API 20 E test strip wells, which were placed in an AnaeroPak container with an anaerobic atmosphere generation system (Mitsubishi Gas Chemical) and incubated at 37 °C.
G + C Contents and Cellular Fatty Acid Profiles
Estimation of the DNA base composition using high-performance liquid chromatography was performed according to the procedures described by Tamaoka and Komagata [12].
The analysis of the cellular fatty acid profiles of strain C5-48T, L. sphenoides ATCC 19403T, and E. clostridioformis JCM 1291T were carried out using a Sherlock Microbial Identification System (version 6.0), in which cells were anaerobically grown on GAM agar medium (Nissui Pharmaceutical) at 37 °C for 24 h in an AnaeroPak container with an anaerobic atmosphere generation system.
Sequence Accession Numbers
The GSDB/DDBJ/EMBL/NCBI accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain C5-48T is LC466003. The DDBJ accession numbers of the whole-genome sequence of strain C5-48T are BLTJ01000001–BLTJ01000047.
Results and Discussion
Phylogenetic Analysis
A 1429-nucleotide stretch of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain C5-48T was determined and compared with available 16S rRNA gene sequences. The highest sequence similarity (95.7%) was found with the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Lachnoclostridium edouardi Marseille-P3397T, which was lower than the cutoff value for the proposal of a novel bacterial species [26, 27]. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain C5-48T also showed high similarity to the corresponding sequence of the following type strains: Clostridium fessum SNUG30386T (94.7%), Lacrimispora celerecrescens DSM 5628T (94.6%), and Enterocloster asparagiformis DSM 15981T (94.2%), of which Lacrimispora and Enterocloster are genera of the Eubacteriales order recently proposed for two previous clostridial groups: the C. sphenoides and C. clostridioforme groups [8]. Phylogenetic trees were then constructed using the 16S rRNA gene sequences from Lachnoclostridium, Lacrimispora, Enterocloster, Clostridium, and related taxa using the neighbor-joining method (Fig. 1). The results showed that C5-48T co-clustered with C. fessum SNUG30386T [28] and L. edouardi Marseille-P3397T [29], and this cluster was closely related to the Enterocloster cluster although these two strains were not previously considered to be strains of Enterocloster [8]. To further confirm the phylogenetic position of strain C5-48T, we performed phylogenetic analysis based on the nucleotide sequences coding for the β subunit of RNA polymerase (rpoB) (see Fig. 2) and heat shock protein 60 (hsp60) (see Fig. 3). The results obtained by these analyses consistently supported the inclusion of C5-48T in the genus Enterocloster (Figs. 2 and 3). The results of phylogenetic analysis based on these three genes were all consistent with the proposed separation of the genera Lacrimispora and Enterocloster from the Clostridium-related cluster [8] and showed that strain C5-48T was most closely related to the genus Enterocloster.
Whole-genome Sequence Analysis
We also carried out whole-genome sequencing of strain C5-48T. The total size of the assembled genome sequence of strain C5-48T was 3.8 Mb, which was similar in size to the genomes of L. edouardi Marseille-P3397T and C. fessum SNUG 30386T (bacterial strains showing the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity; see above) and smaller than the genomes of many other strains belonging to Enterocloster and Lacrimispora (Table 1). We then carried out comprehensive dDDH and ANI calculations against prokaryotic genomes available in public databases. The calculated dDDH values of strain C5-48T ranged from 19.4 to 33.5% to related type strains (Table 1), which were lower than the proposed threshold to separate species [30]. The results of ANI calculations revealed that no bacterial species exhibited an estimated ANI value of 95% or higher (Table 1), which is a threshold for species demarcation of prokaryotes [30]. However, some Enterocloster and Lacrimispora strains were found to have genomic similarities to strain C5-48T with ANI values of 69.4–74.3%, where the values for Enterocloster species (72.7–74.3%) were higher than those for Lacrimispora species (69.4–70.0%) (Table 1). Thus, although strain C5-48T showed appreciable 16S rRNA sequence similarity to some Clostridium or Lachnoclostridium species, the strain should most appropriately be assigned to the genus Enterocloster, based on its phylogeny derived from the 16S rRNA, rpoB, and hsp60 genes (Figs. 1–3) and its ANI values based on the results of whole-genome sequence analysis.
Estimated annotation of the obtained genome sequence of strain C5-48T revealed 3,479 coding sequences, with the major genes involved in metabolism classified into the following categories: amino acid transport and metabolism (206 genes), nucleotide transport and metabolism (74 genes), carbohydrate transport and metabolism (248 genes), lipid transport and metabolism (38 genes), and inorganic ion transport and metabolism (149 genes, Supplementary Fig. 1).
The genome of strain C5-48T was found to harbor genes encoding enzymes potentially responsible for AcH production from ethanol, such as a putative alcohol dehydrogenase with similarity to AdhE of Escherichia coli (UniProt code, P0A9Q7), a putative zinc-type alcohol dehydrogenase with similarity to YjmD of Bacillus subtilis (UniProt code, O35045), and a putative catalase with similarity to a catalase of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum (basonym: Lactobacillus plantarum; UniProt code, P60355). These genes might be related to the observed phenotypic characteristics of this strain as a potential AcH accumulator (see above and ref [6]), although further studies are needed to identify the gene(s) coding for enzyme(s) actually involved in AcH production.
Phenotypic and Biochemical Characteristics
Cells of strain C5-48T were rod-shaped, 3–4 µm long, and 1 µm in diameter (Supplementary Fig. 2). The cells stained Gram-positive and were non-motile. Endospore production was not observed. Colonies of strain C5-48T that formed after anaerobic growth on medium A agar plates at 37 °C for 72 h were circular, convex, white, and semi-transparent, and their diameter was approximately 1 mm. Strain C5-48T could not grow under aerobic conditions.
Strain C5-48T grew on medium A at pH 5.5–10.5 and at 15–37 °C. The optimum pH and temperature for bacterial growth were 7.5 and 37 °C, respectively (Supplementary Figs. 3 and 4). Strain C5-48 T was slightly salt-tolerant; it could grow in the presence of 10.5% (w/v) NaCl in medium A, although it grew maximally (as determined after 48 h of growth) in the presence of 0.5% (w/v) NaCl (Supplementary Fig. 5).
The biochemical characteristics of C5-48T were examined using API 20 E, and the results were compared with those of L. sphenoides ATCC 19403T and E. clostridioformis JCM 1291T as summarized in Supplementary Table 3. Strain C5-48T was positive for β-galactosidase activity, arginine dihydrolase activity, tryptophan deaminase activity, H2S production, and the Voges–Proskauer reaction (i.e., acetoin production), but negative for indole production, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, urease, and gelatinase. Thus, strain C5-48T was distinct from L. sphenoides ATCC 19403T in terms of β-galactosidase and arginine dihydrolase activities and indole production, and from E. clostridioformis JCM 1291T in terms of β-galactosidase and arginine dihydrolase activities and H2S production. Strain C5-48T could produce acid from L-arabinose, L-rhamnose, glucose, sucrose, melibiose, D-mannitol, D-sorbitol, inositol, and amygdalin, and its acid production profile appeared to be similar to those of L. sphenoides ATCC 19403T and E. clostridioformis JCM 1291T.
Chemotaxonomic Characteristics
The G + C content of strain C5-48T was determined using HPLC to be 49.4 mol%, while it was 48.8 mol% based on the whole-genome sequence (Table 1), consistent with the G + C contents of other type strains of Enterocloster (49–56 mol%), including E. clostridioformis ATCC 25537T (49.0 mol%; based on the whole-genome sequence) (Table 1) [8]. For comparison, the G + C content of the type strain of L. sphenoides ATCC 19403T was 43.8 mol% (based on the whole-genome sequence).
The fatty acid composition of strain C5-48T is shown in Table 2 compared with those of L. sphenoides ATCC 19403T and E. clostridioformis JCM 1291T. The major cellular fatty acids of strain C5-48T were 16:0, 14:0, and 18:1 ω7c dimethyl acetal (DMA), and these levels were much higher than those of the other two strains. C5-48T showed lower 18:1 ω9c and 18:1 ω9c DMA contents, which were the major fatty acids in the other two strains (Table 2).
Taxonomic Conclusion
On the basis of the results of phylogenetic analyses using the sequences of the 16S rRNA, rpoB, and hsp60 genes, comprehensive ANI calculations based on the whole-genome sequence, and cellular fatty acid analysis, C5-48T should be included in the genus Enterocloster, which can be clearly distinguished from other closely-related strains. Therefore, we suggest that strain C5-48T represents a novel species of Enterocloster, and the name Enterocloster alcoholdehydrogenati sp. nov. is proposed.
Description of Enterocloster alcoholdehydrogenati sp. nov.
Enterocloster alcoholdehydrogenati (al.co.hol.de.hydro.ge'na.ti. N.L. masc. n. alcohol dehydrogenatus, aldehyde; N.L. masc. n. alcoholdehydrogenati, a bacteria pertaining to aldehyde) is a rod-shaped, non-endospore-forming, anaerobic organism. The cells stain Gram-positive. The rods measure 3–4 × 1 µm. The cell wall mainly comprises 16:0, 14:0, and 18:1 ω7c DMA fatty acid. The temperature range for growth is 15–37 °C with an optimum of 37 °C. The pH range for growth is 5.5–10.5 with an optimum of 7.5. The strain is slightly salt-tolerant and can grow in the presence of 10.5% (w/v) NaCl in medium A.
The bacterium is positive for β-galactosidase activity, arginine dihydrolase activity, tryptophan deaminase activity, H2S production, and the Voges–Proskauer reaction, but negative for indole production, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, urease, and gelatinase activities. Acid can be produced from L-arabinose, L-rhamnose, glucose, sucrose, melibiose, D-mannitol, D-sorbitol, inositol, and amygdalin. The G + C content of the DNA is 49.4 mol% (based on HPLC analysis) or 48.8% (based on the whole-genome sequence). The type strain is C5-48T, which was isolated from the feces of a patient with alcoholism. The type strain has been deposited in the following culture collections: Riken BioResource Research Center (as JCM 33305T) and Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH (as DSM 109474T). Strain C5-48T represents a novel species of the genus Enterocloster, and the name Enterocloster alcoholdehydrogenati sp. nov. is proposed.
Abbreviations
- ANI:
-
Average nucleotide identity
- dDDH:
-
Digital DNA–DNA hybridization
- AcH:
-
Acetaldehyde
- DMA:
-
Dimethyl acetal
- MMC:
-
Minimum mutagenic concentration
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The authors thank Dr. Wakako Ikeda-Ohtsubo for her help with phylogenetic and whole-genome analysis. We also thank James Allen, DPhil, from Edanz Group (https://en-author-services.edanz.com/ac) for editing a draft of this manuscript.
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Oikawa, D., Fukui, K., Aoki, Y. et al. Enterocloster alcoholdehydrogenati sp. nov., a Novel Bacterial Species Isolated from the Feces of a Patient with Alcoholism. Curr Microbiol 80, 187 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-023-03285-1
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