# Complete genome sequences of two Klebsiella pneumoniae phages from Dakar, Senegal

Issa Ndiaye, Laurent Debarbieux, Moussa Moise Diagne, Ousmane Sow, Abdoulaye Cissé, Bissoume Sambe Ba, Cheikh Fall, Yakhya Dieye, Ndongo Dia, Abdoulaye Seck, et al.

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Issa Ndiaye, Laurent Debarbieux, Moussa Moise Diagne, Ousmane Sow, Abdoulaye Cissé, et al. Complete genome sequences of two Klebsiella pneumoniae phages from Dakar, Senegal. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2024, 13 (3), pp.e00047-24. 10.1128/mra.00047-24. hal-04939854

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# Complete genome sequences of two *Klebsiella pneumoniae* phages from Dakar, Senegal

Issa Ndiaye,¹,² Laurent Debarbieux,³ Moussa Moise Diagne,⁴ Ousmane Sow,¹ Abdoulaye Cissé,¹ Bissoume Sambe Ba,⁵ Cheikh Fall,¹ Yakhya Dieye,¹ Ndongo Dia,⁴ Abdoulaye Seck,¹,² Guillaume Constantin de Magny⁶,⁷

**AUTHOR AFFILIATIONS** See affiliation list on p. 3.

**ABSTRACT** Two bacteriophages (phages) of *Klebsiella pneumoniae* were isolated from sewage water collected from Dakar, Senegal. Phage vKpIN17 belongs to the *Przondovirus* genus within the *Autographiviridae* family, with double-stranded DNA genomes, whereas vKpIN18 belongs to the *Webervirus* genus of the *Drexlerviridae* family.

**KEYWORDS** bacteriophages, *Klebsiella pneumoniae*, bacteriophage therapy, Healthcare associated infections

Using a clinical strain of *Klebsiella pneumoniae* KP26 isolated from healthcare-associated infection in a Children's Hospital Center Albert Royer of Fann in Dakar, two lytic bacteriophages were isolated from two community sewage water (14.695121–17.455776; 14.685763–17.46923) in Dakar, Senegal. Twenty milliliters of sewage sample was centrifugated at 5,000 g for 10 min, and then the supernatants were filtered through a 0.22 µm pore size membrane filter. We assessed the filtered supernatants individually for phage presence using double layer agar method (1). Phage plaques were processed by three rounds of purification and amplified as previously described (2). The two phages produced clear plaques with a large halo (Fig. 1).

Genomic DNA was isolated from high titer stocks (>10⁹ PFU/mL). Briefly, 1 mL of phage lysate was treated with 10 µL of DNase I (20 U) and 4 µL of RNase A (20 mg/mL), incubated for 30 min at 37°C, followed by DNA extraction using phenol-chloroform method (2). Library preparations were performed using 1 ng of DNA and Nextera XT DNA library preparation kits (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) and executed according to the manufacturer's protocol. Whole-genome sequencing was performed on Illumina iSeq100 sequencers utilizing the 300-cycle i1 Reagent V2 Kit (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA).

A total of 299,580 and 323,244 (2 × 150 bp) paired-end reads were generated, respectively, for vKpIN17 and vKpIN18, and quality control was performed with FastQC v0.12.1 (3). Reads were trimmed using trim-galore v0.6.10 (4). The *de novo* assembly was performed using SPAdes v.3.15.5 (5) with careful parameters. Contig coverage and assembly validation were performed with BBMap v 35.85 (6). Furthermore, reads were sorted and indexed using Samtools v1.18 (7) and were submitted to assembly error corrections using Pilon v1.24 (8). Phage termini were identified with PhageTerm (9). Predicted coding sequences (CDS) were annotated using Pharokka v1.3.0 (10). For taxonomic classification, closely related genomes were obtained from the NCBI database.

The vKpIN17 and vKpIN18 genome sizes were 40,702 and 48,639 bp, respectively, with GC contents of 53.35% and 50.4%, and mean coverage of 1,674× and 1,481×. Both phages' genomes are permutated and feature redundant ends. There are, respectively, 54 and 84 predicted CDS of which 24 (44%) and 48 (57%) are hypothetical proteins for vKpIN17 and vKpIN18. CDS with homology to other known genes encode, among others, structural elements, DNA, RNA and nucleotide metabolism, and host lysis. No genes associated with lysogeny (e.g., integrases), virulence, toxin, transfer RNAs, clustered

Editor John J. Dennehy, Queens College Department of Biology, New York, USA

Address correspondence to Issa Ndiaye, seydina.indiaye14@gmail.com.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

See the funding table on p. 3.

Received 18 January 2024

Accepted 11 February 2024

Published 20 February 2024

Copyright © 2024 Ndiaye et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, or antibiotic resistance were detected
within their genomes.

The closest phages of vKplN17 and vKplN18 were *Klebsiella* phage K11 (accession: NC_011043.1) (95.99%) and *Klebsiella* phage Kp8 (accession: NC_048700.1) (95.70%), respectively. The phage K11 belongs to the *Przondovirus K11* species, *Przondovirus* genus, and *Autographiviridae* family, while Kp8 belongs to the *Webervirus KLPPOU149* species, *Webervirus* genus, and *Drexlerviridae* family.

We have identified two phages, vKplN17 and vKplN18, that show significant promise as candidates for therapeutic applications. However, further characterization is needed to explore their putative therapeutic value.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank Maïmouna Mbanne Diouf for technical assistance with the Sequenc-
ing and all the members of the Pole of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Dakar for their
precious assistance.

This study was supported by GCDM at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
(IRD), France.

I.N. conceptualized the study, performed sampling, curated the data, performed formal analysis and investigation, designed the methodology, helped with software, wrote the original draft, and reviewed and edited the manuscript. L.D. reviewed and edited the manuscript and supervised the study. M.M.D. designed the methodology and reviewed and edited the manuscript. B.S.B. reviewed and edited the manuscript. O.S. helped with sampling and reviewed and edited the manuscript. A.C., C.F., Y.D., and N.D. reviewed and edited the manuscript. A.S. conceptualized the study, administrated the project, reviewed and edited the manuscript, and supervised the study. G.C.d.M. conceptualized the study, administrated the project, reviewed and edited the manu-script, acquired funding, and supervised the study.
## AUTHOR AFFILIATIONS

¹Pole de Microbiologie, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

²Faculté de Médecine, Pharmacie et Odontostomatologie, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal

³Laboratoire de Bactériophage, Bactérie, Hôte, Département de Microbiologie, Institut Pasteur Paris, Paris, France

⁴Département de Virologie, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

⁵WCARO, World Health Organization, Dakar, Senegal

⁶MIVEGEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France

⁷MEEDIN, Montpellier Ecology and Evolution of Disease Network, Montpellier, France

## AUTHOR ORCIDs

Issa Ndiaye ID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8918-187X

Laurent Debarbieux ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6875-5758

Moussa Moise Diagne ID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5461-5623

Ousmane Sow ID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9338-6544

## FUNDING

<table><thead><tr><td>Funder</td><td>Grant(s) Author(s)</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)</td><td>Guillaume Constantin de Magny</td></tr></tbody></table>

## AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Issa Ndiaye, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing | Laurent Debarbieux, Supervision, Writing – review and editing | Moussa Moise Diagne, Methodology, Writing – review and editing | Ousmane Sow, Writing – review and editing | Abdoulaye Cissé, Writing – review and editing | Bissoume Sambe Ba, Writing – review and editing | Cheikh Fall, Writing – review and editing | Yakhya Dieye, Writing – review and editing | Ndongo Dia, resources, Writing – review and editing | Abdoulaye Seck, Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review and editing | Guillaume Constantin de Magny, Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review and editing

## DATA AVAILABILITY

The data for the two phages are available in the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) under the project number PRJEB68306 with_accession numbers ERP153263 (vKpIN17) and ERP153263 (vKpIN18) for raw sequences reads and accession numbers GCA_963669465 (vKpIN17) and GCA_963669475 (vKpIN18) for genome sequences.

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