Abstract
Kazachstania pintolopesii is an opportunistic mammalian pathobiont from the K. telluris species complex. No draft genomes of this species are currently available. Here, we report the first draft genome sequence of a primate isolate of K. pintolopesii (NCYC 4417).
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Kazachstania pintolopesii is an ascomycetous yeast and relative of K. bovina, K. heterogenica, K. slooffiae and K. telluris [1]. Collectively, these species constitute the K. telluris complex, a phylogenetically distinct group of thermotolerant yeasts able to grow at 37 °C and above [1, 2]. They are widely distributed [1], but are found predominantly in the gastrointestinal (GI) tracts and nasal passages of birds and mammals [1,2,3]. Rodents are the principal hosts for K. pintolopesii [1, 2, 4] with a recent study extending its host range to include cynomolgus macaques [5]. These fungi are also considered pathobionts causing infections in rodents, primates, and less frequently in humans [2, 6, 7]. K. pintolopesii is in addition to being a gut commensal also associated with fatal infections in laboratory mice [2], and with ankylosing spondylitis in cynomolgus macaques [8]. Draft genomes for three members of the complex have been published [9,10,11], but despite its potential significance as a pathobiont no K. pintolopesii genomes have been published to date.
Here, we have combined short- and long-read sequencing to obtain the genome sequence of K. pintolopesii NCYC 4417, a faeces-derived isolate from a captive adult macaque. A faecal homogenate was prepared in sterile phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and cultured onto Sabouraud dextrose (SD) agar plates containing penicillin (25 U/mL) and streptomycin (25 U/mL) at 37 °C. Species identity, from single colonies, was determined by PCR amplification and Sanger sequencing of the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) region of the ribosomal DNA locus using primers ITS1F [12] and ITS2 [13]. The ITS1 sequence of strain NCYC 4417 (GenBank accession number PRJEB63679) is 99.7% identical to that of the K. pintolopesii type strain CBS 2985 (GenBank accession number NR_155233).
For short- and long-read sequencing, total genomic DNA was extracted from a stationary phase SD culture using a MasterPure Yeast DNA Purification Kit (Cambio, Cambridge, UK). Short-read Illumina sequencing was performed using a modified 20-fold dilution of DNA Prep (Flex) reagent and run on a NextSeq 500 sequencer, producing 9,108,736 paired-end 150-bp reads (~ 186 × coverage). Nanopore sequencing was performed using a MinION sequencer (Oxford Nanopore Technologies, ONT), ligation sequencing kit SQK-LSK109 (ONT) and flow cell FLO-MIN106 R9.4.1 (ONT). This produced a total of 437,446 reads with an average read length of 4,069 bases (~ 127 × coverage). Base calling was performed using Guppy v.6.1.2 (basecall_model_version_id = 2021–05-17_dna_r9.4.1_minion_384_d37a2ab9). Raw short- and long-read polishing, including the removal of adapters and low-quality bases, was performed using SeqFu 1.16 [14] and fastp 0.23 [15]. The genome was assembled using Flye 2.9.1 [16] and polished with one round of Pilon 1.24 [17]. The genome assembly comprised of 34 contigs with the largest being 1,738,127 bp in length. The total size of the genome was 13,992,981 bp, the N50 value was 947 kb, and the G + C content was 30.63%. In addition, a putative 8-nt telomeric repeat was identified (5’-WGTATGGG-3’), similar in sequence to the canonical eukaryotic telomere motif [18], and present in 50–100 tandem copies at one or both termini of 13 contigs. Augustus v.3.3.3 [19] predicted 4884 protein-coding genes using the Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S288C) training data set, and 196 tRNA genes were detected using tRNAscan-SE 2.0 [20]. Genome completeness was estimated as 91.0% using BUSCO v5.4.4 [21]. Dependencies and scripts are available at https://github.com/quadram-institute-bioscience/ont-candida.
Data availability
This whole-genome shotgun project has been deposited at DDJB/ENA/Genbank (Biosample Number SAMEA112953918, BioProject Number PRJEB61520, and Assembly Accession Number GCA_950065675.1). The version described in this paper is version 1. The raw reads were deposited at SRA (Accession Numbers ERR11267923 and ERR11267961).
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This research was funded in part by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) awarded Core Capability Grant BB/CCG1860/1, project grant BB/N000250/1, and Institute Strategic Programme Grant Gut Microbes and Health (BB/R012490/1) and its constituent projects BBS/E/F/000PR10353, BBS/E/F/000PR10355.
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James, S.A., Parker, A., Purse, C. et al. Draft Genome Sequence of a Primate Isolate of Kazachstania pintolopesii. Mycopathologia 188, 821–823 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-023-00772-8
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