Gordonia neofelifaecis NRRL B-59395 genome sequencing project

Gordonia neofelifaecis NRRL B-59395 Genomic The genus Gordonia is of great interest for its potential use in industrial and environmental biotechnology. Many species of them are able to degrade toxic environmental pollutants, such as rubber (Bröker et al., 2004), nitramine explosive, dibenzothiophene, phenol, hydrocarbons (Alves et al., 2005), and cholesterol (Liu et al., 2011). Some species of Gordonia are human pathogens. Gordonia neofelifaecis shows high ability to degrade cholesterol and other steroidal compounds.Among the family Gordoniaceae, only genome sequencing of Gordonia bronchialis was completed when our sequencing project was begun.