Genome sequence of Sphingobium indicum B90A, a hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacterium

J Bacteriol. 2012 Aug;194(16):4471-2. doi: 10.1128/JB.00901-12.

Abstract

Sphingobium indicum B90A, an efficient degrader of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) isomers, was isolated in 1990 from sugarcane rhizosphere soil in Cuttack, India. Here we report the draft genome sequence of this bacterium, which has now become a model system for understanding the genetics, biochemistry, and physiology of HCH degradation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • DNA, Bacterial / chemistry*
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics*
  • Genome, Bacterial*
  • Hexachlorocyclohexane / metabolism*
  • India
  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways / genetics
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Rhizosphere
  • Saccharum / microbiology
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA*
  • Soil Microbiology
  • Sphingomonadaceae / genetics*
  • Sphingomonadaceae / isolation & purification
  • Sphingomonadaceae / metabolism*

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial
  • Hexachlorocyclohexane

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AJXQ00000000