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HAMAP: Polaromonas sp. (strain JS666 / ATCC BAA-500) complete proteome
General information

Species:  Polaromonas sp. (strain JS666 / ATCC BAA-500)
Species code: POLSJ
Taxonomy: Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Betaproteobacteria; Burkholderiales; Comamonadaceae; Polaromonas (TaxID: 296591) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description: Polaromonas (strain JS666 / ATCC BAA-500), a member of the family Comamonadaceae in the beta-proteobacteria, is a novel, aerobic, cis-dichloroethene (cDCE)-assimilating organism with optimum growth at 20-25 degrees C. It is closely related to the Antarctic marine isolate Polaromonas vacuolata. The substantial phylogenetic distance from other known aerobic alkene-assimilating bacteria suggests a novel biochemistry for cDCE oxidation. Polaromonas is the only aerobic organism known to use cDCE for energy and growth. cDCE is a common groundwater contaminant derived mainly from incomplete anaerobic reductive dechlorination of the widely used chlorinated solvents tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene. The toxicity and suspected carcinogenicity of cDCE qualifies it as an EPA priority pollutant. Since growth-coupled oxidation of cDCE does not appear to be common at field sites, JS666 is a prime candidate for bioremediation at sites where cDCE has migrated into aerobic zones. Recently, a Polaromonas was reported to be the organism responsible for in situ biodegradation of naphthalene at a coal-tar-contaminated site. Closely related strains have also been found recently in a variety of contaminated sites, but their roles are unknown. The recent isolation of the above strains suggests that members of the genus Polaromonas play a major role in the subsurface degradation of environmental contaminants that has been overlooked to date because of an emphasis on mesophilic bacteria.
Properties: Presence of flagella: No
Human pathogen: No
Interaction: not known
Number of membranes: 2
Number of inteins: 1
Statistics: Number of POLSJ entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 5437 (325 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 5112 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)


Genome(s) sequenced

Strain:    JS666 / ATCC BAA-500
Genome structure:
• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP000316 (circular; 5,200,264 bp) (download entry)
• Plasmid pPOLSJ1 EMBL accession number CP000317 (circular; 360,405 bp) (download entry)
• Plasmid pPOLSJ2 EMBL accession number CP000318 (circular; 338,007 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):
[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Brettin T., Bruce D., Han C., Tapia R., Munk A.C., Gilna P., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Anderson I., Richardson P. ;
"Complete sequence of chromosome of Polaromonas sp. JS666.";
Submitted (APR-2006) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
[2] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Brettin T., Bruce D., Han C., Tapia R., Munk A.C., Gilna P., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Anderson I., Richardson P. ;
"Complete sequence of plasmid 1 of Polaromonas sp. JS666.";
Submitted (APR-2006) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
[3] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Barry K., Detter J.C., Glavina del Rio T., Hammon N., Israni S., Dalin E., Tice H., Pitluck S., Brettin T., Bruce D., Han C., Tapia R., Munk A.C., Gilna P., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Anderson I., Richardson P. ;
"Complete sequence of plasmid 2 of Polaromonas sp. JS666.";
Submitted (APR-2006) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:
Official genome site(s):
http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/poljs/poljs.home.html
Other web sites:
CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Polaromonas&GLspecies=species&GLsupStrain=JS666
Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid296591%5Borgn%5D
GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Pol_JS666
PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p13121_Pol_JS666
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