%0 Journal Article %A Lee, Seung-Bong %A Strand, Stuart E. %A Stensel, H. David %A Herwig, Russell P. %T Pseudonocardia chloroethenivorans sp. nov., a chloroethene-degrading actinomycete %D 2004 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 54 %N 1 %P 131-139 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02488-0 %K TCE, trichloroethene %K RDP-II, Ribosomal Database Project II %K VC, vinyl chloride %K cis-DCE, cis-1,2-dichloroethene %I Microbiology Society, %X A bacterial strain, SL-1T, capable of degrading trichloroethene was isolated from a laboratory enrichment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, USA. The material in the enrichments was derived from a soil sample from Seattle, WA, USA. Strain SL-1T was capable of using phenol as a source of carbon and energy. Chemotaxonomic, morphological, physiological and phylogenetic analyses showed that strain SL-1T is a member of the genus Pseudonocardia. The ability of strain SL-1T to utilize phenol and degrade trichloroethene, as well as other phenotypic properties and the results from a 16S rRNA phylogenetic analysis, led to the proposal of a novel species, Pseudonocardia chloroethenivorans sp. nov. The type strain is SL-1T (=ATCC BAA-742T=DSM 44698T). Trichloroethene and other chloroethenes are major pollutants at many environmental sites, and P. chloroethenivorans has biodegradation properties that should be of interest to environmental microbiologists and engineers. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.02488-0