# Complete Genome Sequence of
Flavobacteriumpsychrophilum Strain OSU THCO2-90,
Used for Functional Genetic Analysis.

Tatiana Rochat, Paul Barbier, Pierre Nicolas, Valentin Loux, David Perez

Pascual, José A. Guijarro, Jean Francois Bernardet, Éric Duchaud

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# Complete Genome Sequence of *Flavobacterium psychrophilum* Strain OSU THCO2-90, Used for Functional Genetic Analysis

Tatiana Rochat,ª Paul Barbier,ª* Pierre Nicolas,ᵇ Valentin Loux,ᵇ

David Pérez-Pascual,ª José A. Guijarro,ᶜ Jean-François Bernardet,ª Eric Duchaudª

VIM, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, Franceª; Malage, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, Franceᵇ; Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Biología Funcional, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Biotecnología de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spainᶜ

**ABSTRACT** We report here the complete annotated genome sequence of *Flavobacterium psychrophilum* OSU THCO2-90, isolated from Coho salmon (*Oncorhynchus kisutch*) in Oregon. The genome consists of a circular chromosome with 2,343 predicted open reading frames. This strain has proved to be a valuable tool for functional genomics.

Flavobacterium psychrophilum is a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae, phylum Bacteroidetes. This bacterium, initially reported from North America, is now documented worldwide (1–5) and is currently one of the most devastating bacterial pathogens of farmed salmonids reared in freshwater (6). The two main clinical forms are rainbow trout fry syndrome and bacterial coldwater disease (7). As a complement to the *F. psychrophilum* genomes already available (8–10), we report here the complete genome sequence of strain OSU THCO2-90 (11). This strain was isolated by R. A. Holt (Oregon State University) from the kidney of a Coho salmon (*Oncorhynchus kisutch*) in Oregon in 1990. Its sequence type is ST9 (3), and it is moderately virulent in a rainbow trout experimental infection model using injection (12) or bath challenge (unpublished). Importantly, it is so far the only *F. psychrophilum* strain that can be successfully genetically manipulated (13, 14). Indeed, this strain has proved to be a valuable tool for functional genomics and has already contributed to the characterization of several genes involved in pathogenicity (12, 15–17).

Sequencing used a combination of Sanger (ABI3730, Applied Biosystems), 454 (GS-FLX, Roche), and Solexa (GAIIx) sequencing with 2.5-fold, 17-fold, and 75-fold coverage, respectively. The 454 reads were assembled into 186 contigs (>500 bp) and 30 scaffolds using Newbler (Roche). These contigs and the Sanger reads were assembled using Phrap (18). Gaps were closed using primer walking on pCNS clones (10-kb fragments on average) used for Sanger sequencing or by PCR sequencing; Solexa reads were used to correct residual sequencing errors. The genome was closed to a single chromosome and the assembly was validated by optical mapping using Ncol (19). Genome annotation was performed using the AGMIAL annotation platform and then manually validated and enriched (20).

The genome of *F. psychrophilum* OSU THCO2-90 consists of a circular chromosome of 2,783,852 bp with an overall G+C content of 32.61%. The genome is predicted to encode 2,343 protein-coding genes, 49 tRNA genes, and six rRNA operons.

*F. psychrophilum* OSU THCO2-90 belongs to the same clonal complex as the type strain ATCC 49418, which was also isolated from Coho salmon but differs from isolates retrieved from rainbow trout, thus demonstrating host specificity (3). Strains OSU THCO2-90 and ATCC 49418T share 2,259 protein-coding genes (≥80% protein identity; 80% protein overlap). The most striking differences between these two strains are (i) a bona fide CRISPR locus encompassing 42 direct repeats in strain OSU THCO2-90,

**Received** 9 December 2016 **Accepted** 16 December 2016 **Published** 23 February 2017

**Citation** Rochat T, Barbier P, Nicolas P, Loux V, Pérez-Pascual D, Guijarro JA, Bernardet J-F, Duchaud E. 2017. Complete genome sequence of *Flavobacterium psychrophilum* strain OSU THCO2-90, used for functional genetic analysis. Genome Announc 5:e01665-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01665-16.

**Copyright** © 2017 Rochat et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Address correspondence to Eric Duchaud, eric.duchaud@inra.fr.

* Present address: Paul Barbier, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
whereas strain ATCC 49418T contains only a remnant CRISPR system; (ii) a genomic island in strain OSU THCO2-90 (genomic coordinates: 1,323,198 to 1,398,091); and (iii) the absence of a 2.7-kb plasmid in strain OSU THCO2-90 (19), which probably makes it more amenable to genetic manipulations (13).

The availability of this complete genome may help in understanding host specificity and genome evolution and will facilitate functional genomics studies. Using Tn4351-mediated random mutagenesis, we already obtained about 1,000 mutants whose precise sites of transposon integration into the chromosome can easily be determined by inverse PCR (15).

**Accession number(s).** This genome has been deposited in ENA under accession number LT670843.

## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work has benefited from the platforms and expertise of the High-Throughput Sequencing Platform of CEA/Genoscope, supported by the France Génomique National infrastructure, funded as part of an "Investissement d'avenir" program managed by Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (contrat ANR-10-INBS-09).

We are indebted to M. Whipple (OSU) for kindly providing the strain, to J. Poulain and V. Barbe (CEA/Genoscope) for sequencing and optical mapping, and to the INRA MIGALE bioinformatics platform (http://migale.jouy.inra.fr) for providing computational resources, help, and support.

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