Draft Genome Sequence of Sphingobium sp. Strain HDIPO4, an Avid Degrader of Hexachlorocyclohexane

Udita Mukherjee; Roshan Kumar; Nitish Kumar Mahato; J P Khurana; Rup Lal

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00749-13

Draft Genome Sequence of Sphingobium sp. Strain HDIPO4, an Avid Degrader of Hexachlorocyclohexane

Genome Announc. 2013 Sep 19;1(5):e00749-13. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00749-13.

Authors

Udita Mukherjee¹, Roshan Kumar, Nitish Kumar Mahato, J P Khurana, Rup Lal

Affiliation

¹ Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Abstract

Sphingobium sp. strain HDIPO4 was isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) dumpsite and degraded HCH isomers rapidly. The draft genome sequence of HDIPO4 (~4.7 Mbp) contains 143 contigs and 4,646 coding sequences with a G+C content of 65%.