Draft Genome Sequences of Two Clinical Isolates of Lactobacillus rhamnosus from Initial Stages of Dental Pulp Infection ZhiliangChen,aMarcR.Wilkins,aNeilHunter,b,cMangalaA.Nadkarnib,c SystemsBiologyInitiative,SchoolofBiotechnologyandBiomolecularSciences,theUniversityofNewSouthWales,NewSouthWales,Australiaa;InstituteofDental Research,WestmeadCentreforOralHealthandWestmeadMillenniumInstitute,Westmead,Australiab;FacultyofDentistry,theUniversityofSydney,Sydney,Australiac HerewereportthedraftgenomicsequencesoftwoclinicalisolatesofLactobacillusrhamnosusfrominfecteddentalpulpsrepre- sentingtheinitialstagesofinfectionofpulptissue.Basedon454FLX(cid:1)pyrosequencing,thetwoclinicalisolatesinfectingvital pulphadagenomelengthof2.9Mbpwithdistinctgenomicsignatures. Received28October2012 Accepted12November2012 Published15January2013 CitationChenZ,WilkinsMR,HunterN,NadkarniMA.2013.DraftgenomesequencesoftwoclinicalisolatesofLactobacillusrhamnosusfrominitialstagesofdentalpulp infection.GenomeAnnounc.1(1):e00073-12.doi:10.1128/genomeA.00073-12. Copyright©2013Chenetal.Thisisanopen-accessarticledistributedunderthetermsoftheAttribution3.0UnportedCreativeCommonsLicense. AddresscorrespondencetoMangalaA.Nadkarni,[email protected]. Lactobacillicolonizemultiplenichesinthehumanbody.Lac- 2,910codingsequences(CDSs),7rRNAloci,and56tRNAs,with tobacilli with probiotic properties are predominantly repre- aG(cid:1)Ccontentof46.6%.Incomparison,thegenomesequenceof sentedinthehumangastrointestinalmicrofloraandthehealthy LRHMDP3contains2,925CDSs,6rRNAloci,and57tRNAswith vaginalmicroflora.Manystrainsofvariousspeciesoflactobacilli aG(cid:1)Ccontentof46.6%. are“generallyregardedassafe(GRAS)”bacteriathatpossesspro- ComparativegenomicanalysisofLRHMDP2andLRHMDP3 bioticbenefitsandarethereforenotconsideredaspathogens(1). withaprobioticL.rhamnosusGG(ATCC53103)showedtheab- LactobacillusrhamnosusGG(ATCC53103)iswidelyusedandhas senceofexopolysaccharide(eps)andspaCBApilusclustersinboth been extensively studied in probiotic applications. However, in oftheclinicalisolates.Newgenesconfinedtotheclinicalisolates additiontothebeneficialeffectsoflactobacilli,strainsofL.rham- includedamodifiedepscluster,atwo-componentsensorhistidine nosusandLactobacillusparacaseihavebeendetectedaspathogens kinase,aresponseregulator,andABCtransportersforferriciron, ininfectiveendocarditis(2).Similarly,L.rhamnosuswithadiffer- RNApolymerasesigma54factorRpoN,MutR,NtrC,ArsRand entpulsed-fieldgelelectrophoresis(PFGE)patternfromthatof zinc-binding Cro/CI family transcriptional regulators. A ThiJ/ L. rhamnosus GG was reported to cause meningitis (3). Diverse PfpIfamilyproteinandphosphotransferasesystem(PTS)system lactobacillihavebeenconsistentlyimplicatedintheinitiationand mannose, galactitol, mannitol, cellobiose, and beta-glucoside- progressionofdentalcaries,themostcommondiseaseoftheoral specificIIcomponentswerealsoidentified. cavity (4, 5). Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis Nucleotide sequence accession numbers. This Whole Ge- hasprovidedinsightsintothecommunitystructureofpolymicro- nome Shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/ bialconsortiaininfectedtissuemicrobiomesandthepreciseiden- GenBank under the accession numbers AMQW00000000 for tificationoflactobacillithatareprominentintheinitialstagesof L.rhamnosusLRHMDP2andAMQX00000000forL.rhamnosus infectionofdentalpulp(6). LRHMDP3.Theversiondescribedinthispaperisthefirstversion, Draft genome sequences of two L. rhamnosus strains, LRH- AMQW01000000andAMQX01000000. 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