Abstract
Most Cellulomonas strains are cellulolytic and this feature may be applied in straw degradation and bioremediation. In this study, Cellulomonas carbonis T26T, Cellulomonas bogoriensis DSM 16987T and Cellulomonas cellasea 20108T were sequenced. Here we described the draft genomic information of C. carbonis T26T and compared it to the related Cellulomonas genomes. Strain T26T has a 3,990,666 bp genome size with a G + C content of 73.4 %, containing 3418 protein-coding genes and 59 RNA genes. The results showed good correlation between the genotypes and the physiological phenotypes. The information are useful for the better application of the Cellulomonas strains.
Introduction
Strain T26T (= CGMCC 1.10786T = KCTC 19824 T = CCTCC AB2010450 T) is the type strain of Cellulomonas carbonis which was isolated from coal mine soil [1]. The genus Cellulomonas was first proposed by Bergey et al. in 1923 [2]. To date, the genus Cellulomonas contains 27 species and mainly isolated from cellulose enriched environments such as soil, bark, wood and sugar field [1–4]. The common characteristics of the Cellulomonas strains are Gram-positive, rods, high G + C content (69–76 mol%) and cellulolytic, containing anteiso-C15:0 and C16:0 as the major fatty acids, and menaquinone-9(H4) as the predominant quinone. Most Cellulomonas strains can degrade cellulose and hemicellulose, making the strains applicable in paper, textile, and food industries, soil fertility and bioremediation [5–8]. The characterization of cellobiose phosphorylase, endo-1,4-xylanase, xylanases and endo-1,4-glucanase of Cellulomonas strains have been previously published [9–12].
So far, three genomes of Cellulomonas have been published including Cellulomonas flavigena DSM 20109T [13], Cellulomonas fimi ATCC 484T [14] and “Cellulomonas gilvus” ATCC 13127T Footnote 1 [14] and showed a wide variety of cellulases and hemicellulases in their genomes [13, 14]. In order to provide more genomic information about Cellulomonas strains for potential industrial application, we sequenced the genomes of Cellulomonas carbonis T26T [1], Cellulomonas cellasea DSM 20118T [2] and Cellulomonas bogoriensis DSM 16987T [15]. Here we present a summary genomic features of C. carbonis T26T together with the comparison results of the six available Cellulomonas genomes.
Organism information
Classification and features
The taxonomic classification and general features of C. carbonis T26T are presented in Table 1. A total of 105 single-copy conserved proteins were obtained within the 13 genomes by OrthoMCL with a Match Cutoff 50 % and an E-value Exponent Cutoff 1-e5 [16, 17]. Figure 1 shows the phylogenetic tree of C. carbonis T26T and 12 related strains based on conserved gene sequences. The tree was constructed by MEGA 5.05 with Maximum-Likelihood method to determine phylogenetic position [18]. The genome based phylogenetic tree (Fig. 1) is similar to the 16S rRNA gene based phylogenetic tree [1].
Strain C. carbonis T26T is Gram-positive, aerobic, motile and rod-shaped (0.5–0.8 × 2.0–2.4 μm) (Fig. 2). The colonies are yellow-white, convex, circular, smooth, non-transparent and about 1 mm in diameter after 3 days incubation on R2A agar at 28 °C [1]. The optimal growth occurs at 28 °C (Table 1). The strain was able to hydrolyse CM-cellulose, starch, gelatin, aesculin and positive in catalase and nitrate reduction [1]. C. carbonis T26T was capable of utilizing a wide range of sole carbon sources including D-glucose, L-arabinose, mannose, N-acetyl glucosamine, maltose, gluconate, sucrose, glycogen, salicin, D-melibiose, D-sorbitol, xylose, D-lactose, D-galactose, D-fructose and raffinose [1, Table 1].
Chemotaxonomy
C. carbonis T26T contains anteiso-C15:0 (33.6 %), anteiso-C15:1 A (22.1 %), C16:0 (14.4 %) and C14:0 (12.1 %) as the major fatty acids and menaquinone-9(H4) as the predominant respiratory quinone. The major polar lipids of this strain were diphosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylglycerol [1].
Genome sequencing information
Genome project history
This organism was selected for sequencing particularly due to its cellulolytic activity and other applications. Genome sequencing was performed by Majorbio Bio-pharm Technology in April-June, 2013. The raw reads were assembled by SOAPdenovo v1.05. The genome annotation was performed at the RAST server version 2.0 [19] and the NCBI Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline and has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under accession number AXCY00000000. The version described in this study is the first version AXCY01000000. The project information are summarized in Table 2.
Growth conditions and genomic DNA preparation
Strain C. carbonis T26T was grown aerobically in 50 ml LB medium at 28 °C for 36 h with 160 rpm shaking. Cells were collected by centrifugation and about 20 mg pellet was obtained. Genomic DNA was extracted, concentrated and purified using the QiAamp kit (Qiagen, Germany). The quality of DNA was assessed by 1 % agarose gel electrophoresis and the quantity of DNA was measured using NanoDrop Spectrophotometer 2000 (Equl-Thermo SCIENTIFIC, USA). About 8.8 μg of genomic DNA was sent to Shanghai Majorbio Bio-pharm Technology Co., Ltd for library preparation and sequencing.
Genome sequencing and assembly
The genome of C. carbonis T26T was sequenced by Illumina Hisep2000 pair-end technology at Shanghai Majorbio Bio-pharm Technology Co., Ltd. A 300 bp Illumina standard shotgun library was constructed and generated 7,703,453 × 2 reads totaling 1,556,097,506 bp Illumina data. Raw reads were filtered using the FastQC toolkit and optimizing through local gap filling and base correction with Gap Closer. All general aspects of library construction and sequencing can be found at the Illumina’s official website [20]. Using SOAPdenovo v1.05 version [21], 7,324,578 × 2 paired reads and 349,082 single reads were assembled de novo. Due to very high GC content, the final draft assembly yield 547 contigs arranged in 414 scaffolds with 343.5 × coverage. The final assembly results showed that 97.6 % of the bases present in larger contigs (>1000 bp), and the contig N50 is 29,777 bp. The draft genome of C. carbonis T26T is present as a set of contigs ordered against the complete genome of C. flavigena DSM 20109T using Mauve software [22].
Genome annotation
The draft genome sequence of C. carbonis T26T was annotation through the RAST server version 2.0 and the National Center for Biotechnology Information Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline. Genes were identified using the gene caller GeneMarkS+ with the similarity-based gene detection approach [23]. The predicted CDSs were translated and used to search the NCBI Nonredundant Database, Pfam [24], KEGG [25], and the NCBI Conserved Domain Database through the Batch web CD-Search tool [26]. The miscellaneous features were prediction by WebMGA [27], TMHMM [28] and SignalP [29]. The putative cellulose-degrading enzymes were identified through Carbohydrate-Active enZYmes Database (CAZymes) Database [30].
Genome properties
The whole genome of C. carbonis T26T is 3,990,666 bp in length, with an average GC content of 73.4 %, and comprised of 547 contigs. The genome properties and statistics are summarized in Table 3 and Fig. 3. From a total of 3513 genes, 3418 protein-coding genes were identified and 71 % of them were assigned putative functions, while the remainder was annotated as hypothetical proteins. In addition, 36 pseudogenes, 11 rRNA, 46 tRNAs and 1 ncRNA were identified. The distributions of genes among the COGs functional categories are shown in Table 4.
Insights from the genome sequence
In order to reveal more genomic information for better application of the Cellulomonas strains, the genomic features of C. carbonis T26T together with the comparison results of the six Cellulomonas genomes were analyzed (Table 5). OrthoMCL analysis with a Match cutoff of 50 % and an E-value Exponent cutoff of 1-e5 identified 1189 single-copy conserved proteins among the six Cellulomonas genomes (Fig. 4). Several carbohydrate-active enzymes have been identified and classified into different families of glycoside hydrolases, carbohydrate binding modules, carbohydrate esterases, auxiliary activities and polysaccharide lyases [31] (Fig. 5, Additional file 1: Table S1). Some putative glycoside hydrolases may be responsible for the ability of Cellulomonas spp. to utilize various sole carbon sources.
Some potential cellulose-degrading enzymes were found and analyzed (Fig. 6, Additional file 1: Table S2). C. fimi ATCC 484T possesses the highest number of putative cellulases, including ten members of β-glucosidases (GH1 and GH3); six members of endoglucanases (GH6 and GH9); four endo-β-1,4-glucanases (GH48 and GH5) and one cellobiose phosphorylase (GH94). C. carbonis T26T has the fewest putative cellulases, including one cellobiose phosphorylase (GH94); one endoglucanase (GH6) and five β-glucosidases (GH1 and GH3). Cellulose activity assays were performed on Congo-Red agar media [32] and all of the six Cellulomonas strains yielded a cellulose clearing zone on the media (data not shown). The Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes was used to construct metabolic pathways and all of the six Cellulomonas strains have the complete cellulose degradation pathways (data not shown).
In addition to the utilization of cellulose, the Cellulomonas strains are also known to degrade hemicelluloses. A large number of putative intracellular and extracellular xylan degrading enzymes have been identified in the Cellulomonas genomes, such as endo-1-4,-β-xylanase, β-xylosidase, α-L-arabinofuranosidase, acetylxylan esterase and α-glucuronidase (Additional file 1: Table S3) which suggests the capacity to degrade hemicelluloses. We also found a large number of α-amylases which are responsible to the degradation of starch in the six Cellulomonas genomes (Additional file 1: Table S4) suggest the potential application in bioremediation of food industrial wastewater.
Conclusions
The genomic information of C. carbonis T26T and the comparison results of the six Cellulomonas genomes revealed a high degree of putative cellulases, hemicellulases. In addition, we found that the genomes also contain members of α-amylases. These information provides a genomic basis for the better application of Cellulomonas spp. in industry and environmental bioremediation. In addition, the genomes possess many putative carbohydrate-active enzymes which is in agreement with their physiological ability to utilize various sole carbon sources.
Notes
Editorial note – although designated as a type strain of Cellulomonas gilvus by Christopherson et al., this strain continues to be listed as a non-type strain of Cellvibrio gilvus in the ATCC catalogue. At present, neither name has standing in the taxonomic literature.
Abbreviations
- RAST:
-
Rapid Annotation using Subsystem Technology
- PGAP:
-
Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31470227).
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ZW performed the sequence annotation and genomic analysis and wrote the draft manuscript. ZS and XX helped performing the comparative genomic analysis. GW organized the study and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Additional file 1: Table S1.
Putative CAZy family and locus_tag number in the six cellulomonas genomes. Table S2. Putative cellulases in the six cellulomonas genomes. Table S3. Putative hemicellulases in the six cellulomonas genomes. Table S4. Putative amylases in the six cellulomonas genomes. (XLSX 29 kb)
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Zhuang, W., Zhang, S., Xia, X. et al. Draft genome sequence of Cellulomonas carbonis T26T and comparative analysis of six Cellulomonas genomes. Stand in Genomic Sci 10, 104 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-015-0096-8
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