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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 6101-6102 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Journal of bacteriology |
Volume | 192 |
Issue number | 22 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2010 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology