Sphingobium francense explained

Sphingobium francense is a hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacteria with type strain MTCC 6363^T (=CCM 7288^T).^[1]

Further reading

• Cérémonie H, Boubakri H, Mavingui P, Simonet P, Vogel TM . Plasmid-encoded gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane degradation genes and insertion sequences in Sphingobium francense (ex-Sphingomonas paucimobilis Sp+). . FEMS Microbiol Lett . 2006 . 257 . 2 . 243–52 . 16553860 . 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00188.x . free .
• Sharma. P.. Raina. V.. Kumari. R.. Malhotra. S.. Dogra. C.. Kumari. H.. Kohler. H.-P. E.. Buser. H.-R.. Holliger. C.. Lal. R.. Haloalkane Dehalogenase LinB Is Responsible for - and -Hexachlorocyclohexane Transformation in Sphingobium indicum B90A. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72. 9. 2006. 5720–5727. 0099-2240. 10.1128/AEM.00192-06. 1563659. 16957186.
• Book: Martina Mackova. David N. Dowling. Thomas Macek. Phytoremediation and Rhizoremediation. 19 September 2006. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-1-4020-4999-6. 197–.
• Book: Alasdair H. Neilson. Ann-Sofie Allard. Environmental Degradation and Transformation of Organic Chemicals. 9 August 2007. CRC Press. 978-1-4200-0677-3. 375–.

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Sphingobium francense at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Pal. R.. Hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacterial strains Sphingomonas paucimobilis B90A, UT26 and Sp+, having similar lin genes, represent three distinct species, Sphingobium indicum sp. nov., Sphingobium japonicum sp. nov. and Sphingobium francense sp. nov., and reclassification of [Sphingomonas] chungbukensis as Sphingobium chungbukense comb. nov.. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55. 5. 2005. 1965–1972. 1466-5026. 10.1099/ijs.0.63201-0. 16166696. free.