Hydrolase CehA and Monooxygenase CfdC Are Responsible for Carbofuran Degradation in Sphingomonas sp. Strain CDS-1.

ABSTRACT: Carbofuran, a broad-spectrum systemic insecticide, has been extensively used for approximately 50 years. Diverse carbofuran-degrading bacteria have been described, among which sphingomonads have exhibited an extraordinary ability to catabolize carbofuran; other bacteria can only convert carbofuran to carbofuran phenol, while all carbofuran-degrading sphingomonads can degrade both carbofuran and carbofuran phenol. However, the genetic basis of carbofuran catabolism in sphingomonads has not been well elucidated. In this work, we sequenced the draft genome of Sphingomonas sp. strain CDS-1 that can transform both carbofuran and carbofuran phenol but fails to grow on them. On the basis of the hypothesis that the genes involved in carbofuran catabolism are highly conserved among carbofuran-degra

SUBMITTER: Yan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070753 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature