Gene database of Paraburkholderia xenovorans LB400

Paraburkholderia xenovorans is an aerobic polychlorinated biphenyl degrader which serves an important role as model organism for bioremediation studies. Known to have the largest bacterial genome to date at 9.7 Mb, much remains to be understood of this unique prokaryotic organism which has three distinct chromosomes in its cells. This work sought to provide fundamental information about the genetic repertoire of P. xenovorans LB400 by parsing its annotated genome sequence downloaded from Genbank. Comprising gene name, gene function, and gene sequence, the resource should be useful for functional genomics study seeking to decipher novel functions from genes in the organism or in molecular cloning work seeking to exploit aromatics degrading capability of the organism through heterologous expression in other microbial chassis such as Escherichia coli.