==== Front Microbiol Resour Announc Microbiol Resour Announc ga mra MRA Microbiology Resource Announcements 2576-098X American Society for Microbiology 1752 N St., N.W., Washington, DC MRA01188-20 10.1128/MRA.01188-20 Genome Sequences Complete Genome Sequence of the Cesium-Accumulating Bacterium Rhodococcus qingshengii CS98, Isolated from Soil in Japan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6347-0331Satoh Katsuya a Ozawa Shogo ab Hayashi Hidenori b Tomioka Noriko c Narumi Issay d Oono Yutaka a a Department of Radiation-Applied Biology Research, Takasaki Advanced Radiation Research Institute, Quantum Beam Science Research Directorate, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Takasaki, Gunma, Japan b Faculty of Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan c Center for Regional Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan d Faculty of Life Sciences, Toyo University, Itakura, Gunma, Japan Stedman Kenneth M. EditorPortland State University Address correspondence to Katsuya Satoh, sato.katsuya@qst.go.jp.Citation Satoh K, Ozawa S, Hayashi H, Tomioka N, Narumi I, Oono Y. 2020. Complete genome sequence of the cesium-accumulating bacterium Rhodococcus qingshengii CS98, isolated from soil in Japan. Microbiol Resour Announc 9:e01188-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01188-20. 10 12 2020 12 2020 9 50 e01188-2025 10 2020 19 11 2020 Copyright © 2020 Satoh et al.2020Satoh et al.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.Rhodococcus qingshengii CS98 is a bacterium isolated from soil in Japan that shows strong cesium-accumulating ability. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of R. qingshengii (6.7 Mb), which may provide useful genetic information supporting its bioremediation features. ABSTRACT Rhodococcus qingshengii CS98 is a bacterium isolated from soil in Japan that shows strong cesium-accumulating ability. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of R. qingshengii (6.7 Mb), which may provide useful genetic information supporting its bioremediation features. cover-dateDecember 2020 ==== Body ANNOUNCEMENT Bioremediation uses biological organisms to solve an environmental problem, drawing attention as a technology with a low environmental burden, compared with physical and chemical technologies. The cesium-accumulating bacterium Rhodococcus erythropolis CS98 was isolated from soil in Japan (1, 2) as a promising strain for bioremediation purposes. Recently, this strain was reclassified as Rhodococcus qingshengii CS98 on the basis of the results of the average nucleotide identity analysis, and its draft genome has been reported (3). R. qingshengii CS98 cells that had been stored as glycerol stocks in a −80°C ultrafreezer at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan, after the initial characterization (1, 2) and revived in January 2016 were grown at 30°C for 24 h in medium (0.5% tryptone, 0.1% glucose, and 0.3% yeast extract). The genomic DNA was extracted with a DNeasy PowerSoil kit (Qiagen). For long-read sequencing, genomic DNA was sheared to ∼8-kb fragments using a g-TUBE device (Covaris). A library was constructed using a ligation sequencing kit 1D (SQK-LSK108) and a native barcoding kit 1D (EXP-NBD103) and was loaded onto a GridION X5 R9.4 flow cell (FLO-MIN106; Oxford Nanopore Technologies) with default parameters. Base calling was performed using Guppy v.1.8.5 (Oxford Nanopore Technologies), adapter sequences were removed using Porechop v.0.2.3 (https://github.com/rrwick/Porechop), and low-quality data (read length of <1,000 bp and Phred quality score of <9) were filtered and trimmed using NanoFilt v.2.0.0 (4). For short-read sequencing, a library was prepared with a TruSeq DNA PCR-free kit (Illumina) and subjected to 150-bp paired-end sequencing (300 cycles) on the MiSeq system (Illumina). Adapter sequences and low-quality data (read length of <10 bp and Phred quality score of <30) were filtered and trimmed using Cutadapt v.1.11 (5). GridION and MiSeq sequencing generated total lengths of 1,389,142,401 and 259,666,780 bp, respectively (Table 1). Hybrid de novo assembly was performed using Unicycler v.0.4.6 (6) with default parameters, including a polishing step with Pilon v.1.2.2 (7). Unicycler automatically identified and trimmed overlapping ends. The genome of R. qingshengii CS98 was 6,726,107 bp in total length, with an average G+C content of 62.4% and mean coverage of 245-fold, and comprised one circular chromosome (6,240,414 bp) and one linear plasmid (485,693 bp). The circular chromosome was rotated to the default starting gene dnaA. The genome was automatically annotated with the DFAST pipeline (8), which predicted a total of 6,255 protein-coding sequences, 59 tRNAs, and 5 rRNA (5S, 16S, and 23S rRNA) operons. Comparative analysis using Mauve v.2.4.0 (9) showed that the genome was almost identical with the previous draft genome (3) and complemented gaps between contigs. BLAST v.2.11.0 (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) analysis revealed that the chromosome sequence had similarities to chromosomes of R. qingshengii strains djl-6-2 (GenBank accession number CP025959) and RL1 (GenBank accession number CP042917) (identities of 99.07% and 99.09% and query coverages of 96% and 95%, respectively). Furthermore, the linear plasmid possessed plasmid partitioning gene parA, and the majority of the sequence showed a high level of similarity (identity of 99.15% and query coverage of 30%) to that of the Rhodococcus sp. strain BH4 linear plasmid (GenBank accession number CP014942). The complete genome sequence of R. qingshengii CS98 represents a valuable resource for future comparative genomic analyses and will help elucidate the genetic basis of bioremediation features. TABLE 1 Summary of long-read and short-read sequencing results Sequencing platform and metric Finding before filtering Finding after filtering GridION  No. of bases 2,090,455,438 1,389,142,401  No. of reads 352,550 224,929  Read N50 (bp) 7,596 7,662  Mean read length (bp) 5,929.5 6,175.9  Median read length (bp) 5,771.0 5,994.0 MiSeq  No. of bases 304,966,546 259,666,780  No. of reads 2,019,646 1,879,082 Data availability. 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