# Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus thuringiensis strain LM1212, Isolated from the Cadaver of an Oryctes gigas Larva in Madagascar

Guiming Liu, Chao Deng, Lai Song, Qi Peng, Jie Zhang, Didier Lereclus, Fuping Song

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Guiming Liu, Chao Deng, Lai Song, Qi Peng, Jie Zhang, et al.. Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus thuringiensis strain LM1212, Isolated from the Cadaver of an Oryctes gigas Larva in Madagascar. Genome Announcements, 2014, 2 (3), pp.1-2. 10.1128/genomeA.00516-14. hal-01608812

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# Draft Genome Sequence of *Bacillus thuringiensis* Strain LM1212, Isolated from the Cadaver of an *Oryctes gigas* Larva in Madagascar

Guiming Liu,ª,ᵇ Chao Deng,ª,ᶜ Lai Song,ª,ᵇ Qi Peng,ª Jie Zhang,ª Didier Lereclus,ᶜ Fuping Songª

State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, Chinaª; CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Chinaᵇ; INRA, UMR1319 Micalis, Génétique Microbienne et Environnement, La Minière, Guyancourt, Franceᶜ

G.L. and C.D. contributed equally to this work.

**We report the draft genome sequence of *Bacillus thuringiensis* strain LM1212, which differentiates into crystal producers or spore formers during the stationary phase. Availability of this genome sequence will facilitate the study of spore formation, crystal formation, cell differentiation, and evolution of *B. thuringiensis*.

Received 8 May 2014 Accepted 13 May 2014 Published 29 May 2014

Citation Liu G, Deng C, Song L, Peng Q, Zhang J, Lereclus D, Song F. 2014. Draft genome sequence of *Bacillus thuringiensis* strain LM1212, isolated from the cadaver of an *Oryctes gigas* larva in Madagascar. Genome Announc. 2(3):e00516-14. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00516-14.

Copyright © 2014 Liu et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Address correspondence to Didier Lereclus, didier.lereclus@jouy.inra.fr, or Fuping Song, fpsong@ippcaas.cn.

Here we report the draft genome sequence of *Bacillus thuringiensis* strain LM1212, isolated from the cadaver of an *Oryctes gigas* larva in Madagascar (1). This strain produces a typical crystal inclusion but presents the intriguing ability to differentiate into crystal producers or spore formers during the stationary phase. This characteristic is significantly different from that of all known *B. thuringiensis* strains which produce crystal proteins in the sporulating cells (spore formers).

Total DNA was isolated from *B. thuringiensis* strain LM1212. Genome sequencing was performed with the 454 GS-FLX Titanium (Roche Applied Science) and Illumina Hi-Seq 2000 platforms. A total of 170,744 high-quality Roche 454 reads with an average read length of 400 bp were produced, providing about 11-fold coverage of the genome, while the Illumina reads provided 1,255-fold coverage with 38 million reads of 100 bp (insert size, 3,000 bp). After preprocessing, Roche 454 reads were assembled into contigs with Newbler version 2.6, and then scaffolded with Illumina mate-pair reads using SSPACE (2). The gaps within scaffolds were closed with GapFiller (3). The open reading frames were identified by using Glimmer version 3.02 (4). The tRNAs and rRNAs were predicted using tRNAscan-SE (5) and RNAmmer (6), respectively. The functions of encoding genes were annotated by using the NCBI nr, Swiss-Prot (7), Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG) (8), KEGG (9), and InterProScan (10) databases.

The draft genome sequence consists of 51 scaffolds and 136 contigs with a GC content of 35.33% and a total length of 6,062,180 bases. A total of 5,286 coding sequences (CDS) and 73 tRNA and 5 rRNA operons were predicted. Approximately 64.16% of all coding sequences (a total of 3,392) were assigned to COG, and 1,814 CDS were annotated into the 166 pathways by using KAAS (11). This strain harbors 7 genes encoding products similar to Cry proteins. Based on the amino acid sequences, five delta-endotoxins in LM1212 (Cry32Va1, Cry74Aa1, Cry45Ba1, Cry41Ca1, and Cry32Mc1) were classified as novel Cry toxins by the Bt Toxin Nomenclature Committee

(http://www.lifesc.sussex.ac.uk/home/Neil_Crickmore/Bt/) and four of them (Cry74Aa1, Cry45Ba1, Cry41Ca1, and Cry32Mc1) showed a high degree of similarity to the cancer cell-killing protein parasporins (12).

**Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.** This whole-genome shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession number AYPV00000000. The version described in this paper is version AYPV01000000.

## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation (31270111 and 40906097).

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