Draft Genome Sequence of Polychlorinated Biphenyl-Dechlorinating Dehalococcoides mccartyi Strain SG1, Which Carries a Circular Putative Plasmid

Shanquan Wang; Kern Rei Chng; Chen Wu; Andreas Wilm; Niranjan Nagarajan; Jianzhong He

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00901-14

Draft Genome Sequence of Polychlorinated Biphenyl-Dechlorinating Dehalococcoides mccartyi Strain SG1, Which Carries a Circular Putative Plasmid

Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 2;2(5):e00901-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00901-14.

Authors

Shanquan Wang¹, Kern Rei Chng, Chen Wu¹, Andreas Wilm², Niranjan Nagarajan², Jianzhong He³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
² Computational and Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore.
³ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore jianzhong.he@nus.edu.sg.

Abstract

Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain SG1, isolated from digester sludge, dechlorinates polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to lower congeners. Here we report the draft genome sequence of SG1, which carries a 22.65 kbp circular putative plasmid.