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Christopher M Sales1, Shaily Mahendra, Ariel Grostern
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1710, USA.
Abstract:
Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans CB1190 is the first bacterium reported to be capable of growth on the environmental contaminant 1,4-dioxane and the first member of the genus Pseudonocardia for which there is an annotated genome sequence. Preliminary analysis of the genome (chromosome and three plasmids) indicates that strain CB1190 possesses several multicomponent monooxygenases that could be involved in the aerobic degradation of 1,4-dioxane and other environmental contaminants.

