Complete Genome Sequence of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Degrader Comamonas testosteroni TK102 (NBRC 109938)

Kohei Fukuda; Akira Hosoyama; Keiko Tsuchikane; Shoko Ohji; Atsushi Yamazoe; Nobuyuki Fujita; Masaki Shintani; Kazuhide Kimbara

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00865-14

Complete Genome Sequence of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Degrader Comamonas testosteroni TK102 (NBRC 109938)

Genome Announc. 2014 Sep 11;2(5):e00865-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00865-14.

Authors

Kohei Fukuda¹, Akira Hosoyama², Keiko Tsuchikane², Shoko Ohji², Atsushi Yamazoe², Nobuyuki Fujita², Masaki Shintani, Kazuhide Kimbara³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Bioscience, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan.
² Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Nishihara, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Shizuoka University, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan tkkimba@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp.

Abstract

Comamonas testosteroni TK102 (NBRC 109938; JCM 19603) can utilize biphenyl as a sole carbon source and degrade polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The complete nucleotide sequence of the TK102 genome was determined. TK102 possesses several integrative and conjugative element-like regions, and one of them carries biphenyl-degradative genes.