Draft Genome Sequence of the Type Species of the Genus Citrobacter, Citrobacter freundii MTCC 1658 ShaileshKumar,bChandandeepKaur,aKazuyukiKimura,cMasahiroTakeo,cGajendraPalSinghRaghava,bShanmugamMayilraja MicrobialTypeCultureCollectionandGeneBank(MTCC),Chandigarh,Indiaa;BioinformaticsCentre,CSIR-InstituteofMicrobialTechnology,Chandigarh,Indiab; DepartmentofMaterialsScienceandChemistry,GraduateSchoolofEngineering,UniversityofHyogo,Himeji,Hyogo,Japanc S.K.andC.K.contributedequallytothisarticle. ThisisInstituteofMicrobialTechnology(IMTECH)communicationno.078/2012. Wereportthe5.0-MbgenomesequenceofthetypespeciesofthegenusCitrobacter,CitrobacterfreundiistrainMTCC1658,iso- latedfromcanalwater.ThisdraftgenomesequenceofC.freundiistrainMTCC1658Tconsistsof5,001,265bpwithaG(cid:1)Ccon- tentof51.61%,4,691protein-codinggenes,70tRNAs,and10rRNAs. Received12November2012 Accepted30November2012 Published31January2013 CitationKumarS,KaurC,KimuraK,TakeoM,RaghavaGPS,MayilrajS.2013.DraftgenomesequenceofthetypespeciesofthegenusCitrobacter,CitrobacterfreundiiMTCC 1658.GenomeAnnounc.1(1):e00120-12.doi:10.1128/genomeA.00120-12. Copyright©2013Kumaretal.Thisisanopen-accessarticledistributedunderthetermsoftheAttribution3.0UnportedCreativeCommonsLicense. AddresscorrespondencetoShanmugamMayilraj,[email protected]. ThegenusCitrobacterwasfirstproposedasCitrobacterfreun- thesisN-glycosyltransferasePgaC(EC2.4.-.-),GlmU,GlmM,and dii(Braak1928)byWerkmanandGillen(1).Atpresent,the GlmS.Wehavealsofoundthegenesforargininedeaminase(EC genusCitrobacterconsistsoftenrecognizedspecies,includingC. 3.5.3.6), proline iminopeptidase (EC 3.4.11.5), N-acetyl-D- freundiiMTCC1658.ThetypespeciesC.freundiiMTCC1658isa glucosamineABCtransportsystempermeaseprotein1,N-acetyl- Gram-negativeaerobicshort-rodbacteriumisolatedfromcanal D-glucosamine ABC transport system permease protein 2, and waterintheUnitedStates.ThegenomeofstrainMTCC1658Twas galactosamine-6-phosphateisomerase(EC5.3.1.-). sequencedusingastandardrunoftheRoche454sequencingtech- Nucleotide sequence accession numbers. This Whole Ge- nology.Atotalof891,216readswithanaveragelengthof402.52 nome Shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/ nucleotides(~71.7-foldcoverage)wereusedforgenomeassembly GenBank under the accession no. ANAV00000000. The version bytheNewblerassemblerversion2.5.3(Roche)usingthedefault describedinthisarticleisthefirstversion,ANAV01000000.Ge- parameters. A total of 171 contigs of (cid:1)500 bp in length were nomeassemblyandannotationdatacanbedownloadedfromour constructed,withanN of196.05kb;thelargestcontigassembled genomicswebportalathttp://crdd.osdd.net/raghava/genomesrs/. 50 measured445.73kb.Thefinaldraftgenomesequenceconsistsof ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 5,001,265bp,andtheRapidAnnotationsusingSubsystemsTech- nology (RAST) server (2) and tRNAscan-SE-1.23 software (3) S.K.issupportedbyaresearchfellowshipfromtheCouncilofScientific andIndustrialResearch(CSIR),India.Thisworkwaspartlysupportedby wereusedforgenomeannotation. theRegionalInnovationStrategySupportProgramme2012oftheMin- Whole-genomeannotationwiththeRASTservershowsthat istryofEducation,Culture,Sports,ScienceandTechnologyofJapanand strainMTCC1658Tcontainsgenesforureadecomposition(i.e., theJapanSocietyforthePromotionofScience(JSPS)invitationfellow- genesforureaseaccessoryproteinsUreD,UreE,UreF,andUreG), shipforresearchinJapangrantedtoS.M. chitinandN-acetylglucosamineutilization,dehydrogenasecom- plexes, dihydroxyacetone kinases, the Entner-Doudoroff path- REFERENCES way, glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, pentose phosphate path- 1. WerkmanCH,GillenGF.1932.Bacteriaproducingtrimethyleneglycol.J. ways, the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, lactose and galactose Bacteriol.23:167–182. 2. AzizRK,BartelsD,BestAA,DeJonghM,DiszT,EdwardsRA,Formsma uptakeandutilization,sialicacidmetabolism,theriboflavinsyn- K,GerdesS,GlassEM,KubalM,MeyerF,OlsenGJ,OlsonR,Osterman thesiscluster,polysaccharideexportoflipoproteinWza,thepy- AL,OverbeekRA,McNeilLK,PaarmannD,PaczianT,ParrelloB,Pusch ruvatemetabolismIsystem(anapleroticreactionsandphosphoe- GD,ReichC,StevensR,VassievaO,VonsteinV,WilkeA,ZagnitkoO. nolpyruvate [PEP]), and another pyruvate metabolism system 2008.TheRASTserver:rapidannotationsusingsubsystemstechnology. BMCGenomics9:75. (acetyl coenzyme A [acetyl-CoA] and acetogenesis from pyru- 3. LoweTM,EddySR.1997.tRNAscan-SE:aprogramforimproveddetec- vate).Also,wefoundthegenesforisocitratelyase(EC4.1.3.1), tionoftransferRNAgenesingenomicsequence.NucleicAcidsRes.25: malatesynthase(EC2.3.3.9),biofilmPGA(polyglycolicacid)syn- 955–964. January/February2013 Volume1 Issue1 e00120-12 GenomeAnnouncements genomea.asm.org 1