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STANDARDS IN GENOMIC SCIENCES
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 251-264Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.4056/sigs.2806097
Keywords
reductive dechlorination; groundwater; strictly anaerobic; hydrogen utilization; contamination; Chloroflexi
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- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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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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