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SUBMITTER: Miller TR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2976435 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miller Todd R TR Delcher Arthur L AL Salzberg Steven L SL Saunders Elizabeth E Detter John C JC Halden Rolf U RU
Journal of bacteriology 20100910 22
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 fi ...[more]