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Yu Yang1, Jianwei Chen2, Wei-Min Wu3
1Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, PR China.
Journal of Biotechnology
|March 22, 2015
Abstract:
Bacillus sp. strain YP1, isolated from the gut of waxworm (the larvae of Plodia interpunctella) which ate polyethylene (PE) plastic, is capable of degrading PE and utilizing PE as sole carbon source. Here we report the complete genome sequence of strain YP1, which is relevant to polyethylene depolymerization and biodegradation.
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