Genome Sequencing Revealed Chromium and Other Heavy Metal Resistance Genes in E. cloacae B2-Dha

Abstract

The previously described chromium resistant bacterium, Enterobacter cloacae B2-DHA, was isolated from |||||||| containing chromium and other heavy metal resistance genes. The genome size and the number of genes, determined by massive parallel sequencing and comparative analysis with other known Enterobacter genomes, are predicted to be 4.22 Mb and 3958, respectively. Nearly 160 of these genes were found to be involved in binding, of two chromium resistance genes, chrR and chrA contaminated sources.