Draft Genome Sequences of Four Strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Three of Which Cause Early Mortality Syndrome/Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease in Shrimp in China and Thailand

Yi-Ting Yang; I-Tung Chen; Chung-Te Lee; Chien-Yu Chen; Shih-Shun Lin; Lien-I Hor; Ta-Chien Tseng; Yun-Tzu Huang; Kallaya Sritunyalucksana; Siripong Thitamadee; Han-Ching Wang; Chu-Fang Lo

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00816-14

Draft Genome Sequences of Four Strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Three of Which Cause Early Mortality Syndrome/Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease in Shrimp in China and Thailand

Genome Announc. 2014 Sep 4;2(5):e00816-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00816-14.

Authors

Yi-Ting Yang, I-Tung Chen, Chung-Te Lee, Chien-Yu Chen, Shih-Shun Lin¹, Lien-I Hor², Ta-Chien Tseng³, Yun-Tzu Huang³, Kallaya Sritunyalucksana, Siripong Thitamadee, Han-Ching Wang⁴, Chu-Fang Lo⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
³ Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁴ Institute of Biotechnology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁵ gracelow@mail.ncku.edu.tw.

Abstract

We sequenced four Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains, three of which caused serious acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease. Sequence analysis of the virulent strains revealed not only genes related to cholera toxin and the type IV pilus/type IV secretion system but also a unique, previously unreported, large extrachromosomal plasmid that encodes a homolog to the insecticidal Photorhabdus insect-related binary toxin PirAB.