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Complete genome sequence of Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens type strain (BL-DC-9(T)) and comparison to “Dehalococcoides” strains

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Stand Genomic Sci 6(2) , 251-64 (May 25 2012)

Author(s):

Siddaramappa, S., Challacombe, J. F., Delano, S. F., Green, L. D., Daligault, H., Bruce, D., Detter, C., Tapia, R., Han, S., Goodwin, L., Han, J., Woyke, T., Pitluck, S., Pennacchio, L., Nolan, M., Land, M., Chang, Y. J., Kyrpides, N. C., Ovchinnikova, G., Hauser, L., Lapidus, A., Yan, J., Bowman, K. S., da Costa, M. S., Rainey, F. A., Moe, W. M.

DOI:

10.4056/sigs.2806097

Abstract:

Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens is the type species of the genus Dehalogenimonas, which belongs to a deeply branching lineage within the phylum Chloroflexi. This strictly anaerobic, mesophilic, non spore-forming, Gram-negative staining bacterium was first isolated from chlorinated solvent contaminated groundwater at a Superfund site located near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. D. lykanthroporepellens was of interest for genome sequencing for two reasons: (a) an unusual ability to couple growth with reductive dechlorination of environmentally important polychlorinated aliphatic alkanes and (b) a phylogenetic position that is distant from previously sequenced bacteria. The 1,686,510 bp circular chromosome of strain BL-DC-9(T) contains 1,720 predicted protein coding genes, 47 tRNA genes, a single large subunit rRNA (23S-5S) locus, and a single, orphan, small subunit rRNA (16S) locus.

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