Citrobacter amalonaticus Y19 is the only Enterobacter known till date to oxidize toxic carbon monoxide.
It is capable of performing efficient CO-dependent hydrogen production.
Sequenced de novo by employing Pacbio SRMT method.
It has a genome size of 5.58 Mb with a mega plasmid of 291 Kb.
It has immense capability to produce important biofuels and biochemical.