Draft Genome Sequence of the Polychlorinated Biphenyl-Degrading Bacterium Comamonas testosteroni KF712 (NBRC 110673).

Jun Hirose
Atsushi Yamazoe
Akira Hosoyama
Nobutada Kimura
Hikaru Suenaga
Takahito Watanabe
Hidehiko Fujihara
Taiki Futagami
Masatoshi Goto
Kensuke Furukawa

We present a 5.89-Mb draft genome sequence of Comamonas testosteroni KF712 (NBRC 110673), a polychlorinated biphenyl degrader. The genome sequence clarified that KF712 harbors the gene clusters coding for the catabolism of biphenyl and at least seven other aromatic compounds.

Genome announcements

American Society for Microbiology

10.1128/genomeA.01214-15

https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01214-15
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26472850
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4611702