Complete Genome Sequence of the Thermophilic Polychlorinated Biphenyl Degrader Geobacillus sp. Strain JF8 (NBRC 109937)

Masaki Shintani; Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo; Kohei Fukuda; Akira Hosoyama; Shoko Ohji; Atsushi Yamazoe; Nobuyuki Fujita; Yuji Nagata; Masataka Tsuda; Takashi Hatta; Kazuhide Kimbara

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01213-13

Complete Genome Sequence of the Thermophilic Polychlorinated Biphenyl Degrader Geobacillus sp. Strain JF8 (NBRC 109937)

Genome Announc. 2014 Jan 23;2(1):e01213-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01213-13.

Authors

Masaki Shintani¹, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Kohei Fukuda, Akira Hosoyama, Shoko Ohji, Atsushi Yamazoe, Nobuyuki Fujita, Yuji Nagata, Masataka Tsuda, Takashi Hatta, Kazuhide Kimbara

Affiliation

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan.

Abstract

Geobacillus sp. strain JF8 (NBRC 109937) utilizes biphenyl and naphthalene as sole carbon sources and degrades polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) at 60°C. Here, we report the complete nucleotide sequence of the JF8 genome (a 3,446,630-bp chromosome and a 39,678-bp plasmid). JF8 has the smallest genome among the known PCB degraders.