Genome sequence of the dioxin-mineralizing bacterium Sphingomonas wittichii RW1.
J Bacteriol, 2010/11;192(22):6101-2.
Miller TR[1], Delcher AL, Salzberg SL, Saunders E, Detter JC, Halden RU
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PMID: 20833805DOI: 10.1128/JB.01030-10
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Abstract
Pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins pose a serious threat to human and environmental health. Natural attenuation of these compounds by microorganisms provides one promising avenue for their removal from contaminated areas. Over the past 2 decades, studies of the bacterium Sphingomonas wittichii RW1 have provided a wealth of knowledge about how bacteria metabolize chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons. Here we describe the finished genome sequence of S. wittichii RW1 and major findings from its annotation.
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DNA, Bacterial; Dioxins; Environmental Pollutants; Genome, Bacterial; Molecular Sequence Data; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sphingomonas
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