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Title: Discovery of a novel filamentous prophage in the genome of the Mimosa pudica microsymbiont Cupriavidus taiwanensis STM 6018

Abstract

Integrated virus genomes (prophages) are commonly found in sequenced bacterial genomes but have rarely been described in detail for rhizobial genomes. Cupriavidus taiwanensis STM 6018 is a rhizobial Betaproteobacteria strain that was isolated in 2006 from a root nodule of a Mimosa pudica host in French Guiana, South America. Here we describe features of the genome of STM 6018, focusing on the characterization of two different types of prophages that have been identified in its genome. The draft genome of STM 6018 is 6,553,639 bp, and consists of 80 scaffolds, containing 5,864 protein-coding genes and 61 RNA genes. STM 6018 contains all the nodulation and nitrogen fixation gene clusters common to symbiotic Cupriavidus species; sharing >99.97% bp identity homology to the nod / nif / noeM gene clusters from C. taiwanensis LMG19424 T and “ Cupriavidus neocalidonicus” STM 6070. The STM 6018 genome contains the genomes of two prophages: one complete Mu-like capsular phage and one filamentous phage, which integrates into a putative dif site. This is the first characterization of a filamentous phage found within the genome of a rhizobial strain. Further examination of sequenced rhizobial genomes identified filamentous prophage sequences in several Beta-rhizobial strains but not in any Alphaproteobacterialmore » rhizobia.« less

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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); French National Research Agency (ANR)
OSTI Identifier:
1960100
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1969972
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Frontiers in Microbiology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Frontiers in Microbiology Journal Volume: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher:
Frontiers Media SA
Country of Publication:
Switzerland
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Betaproteobacteria; root-nodule bacteria; bacteriophage; filamentous phage; symbiosis

Citation Formats

Klonowska, Agnieszka, Ardley, Julie, Moulin, Lionel, Zandberg, Jaco, Patrel, Delphine, Gollagher, Margaret, Marinova, Dora, Reddy, T. B. K., Varghese, Neha, Huntemann, Marcel, Woyke, Tanja, Seshadri, Rekha, Ivanova, Natalia, Kyrpides, Nikos, and Reeve, Wayne. Discovery of a novel filamentous prophage in the genome of the Mimosa pudica microsymbiont Cupriavidus taiwanensis STM 6018. Switzerland: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1082107.
Klonowska, Agnieszka, Ardley, Julie, Moulin, Lionel, Zandberg, Jaco, Patrel, Delphine, Gollagher, Margaret, Marinova, Dora, Reddy, T. B. K., Varghese, Neha, Huntemann, Marcel, Woyke, Tanja, Seshadri, Rekha, Ivanova, Natalia, Kyrpides, Nikos, & Reeve, Wayne. Discovery of a novel filamentous prophage in the genome of the Mimosa pudica microsymbiont Cupriavidus taiwanensis STM 6018. Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1082107
Klonowska, Agnieszka, Ardley, Julie, Moulin, Lionel, Zandberg, Jaco, Patrel, Delphine, Gollagher, Margaret, Marinova, Dora, Reddy, T. B. K., Varghese, Neha, Huntemann, Marcel, Woyke, Tanja, Seshadri, Rekha, Ivanova, Natalia, Kyrpides, Nikos, and Reeve, Wayne. Tue . "Discovery of a novel filamentous prophage in the genome of the Mimosa pudica microsymbiont Cupriavidus taiwanensis STM 6018". Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1082107.
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title = {Discovery of a novel filamentous prophage in the genome of the Mimosa pudica microsymbiont Cupriavidus taiwanensis STM 6018},
author = {Klonowska, Agnieszka and Ardley, Julie and Moulin, Lionel and Zandberg, Jaco and Patrel, Delphine and Gollagher, Margaret and Marinova, Dora and Reddy, T. B. K. and Varghese, Neha and Huntemann, Marcel and Woyke, Tanja and Seshadri, Rekha and Ivanova, Natalia and Kyrpides, Nikos and Reeve, Wayne},
abstractNote = {Integrated virus genomes (prophages) are commonly found in sequenced bacterial genomes but have rarely been described in detail for rhizobial genomes. Cupriavidus taiwanensis STM 6018 is a rhizobial Betaproteobacteria strain that was isolated in 2006 from a root nodule of a Mimosa pudica host in French Guiana, South America. Here we describe features of the genome of STM 6018, focusing on the characterization of two different types of prophages that have been identified in its genome. The draft genome of STM 6018 is 6,553,639 bp, and consists of 80 scaffolds, containing 5,864 protein-coding genes and 61 RNA genes. STM 6018 contains all the nodulation and nitrogen fixation gene clusters common to symbiotic Cupriavidus species; sharing >99.97% bp identity homology to the nod / nif / noeM gene clusters from C. taiwanensis LMG19424 T and “ Cupriavidus neocalidonicus” STM 6070. The STM 6018 genome contains the genomes of two prophages: one complete Mu-like capsular phage and one filamentous phage, which integrates into a putative dif site. This is the first characterization of a filamentous phage found within the genome of a rhizobial strain. Further examination of sequenced rhizobial genomes identified filamentous prophage sequences in several Beta-rhizobial strains but not in any Alphaproteobacterial rhizobia.},
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