Sphingobium indicum explained

Sphingobium indicum is a hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacteria with type strain MTCC 6364^T (=CCM 7286^T).^[1] Its genome has been sequenced.^[2]

Further reading

• Lal. Rup. Dadhwal. Mandeep. Kumari. Kirti. Sharma. Pooja. Singh. Ajaib. Kumari. Hansi. Jit. Simran. Gupta. Sanjay Kumar. Nigam. Aeshna. Lal. Devi. Verma. Mansi. Kaur. Jaspreet. Bala. Kiran. Jindal. Swati. Pseudomonas sp. to Sphingobium indicum: a journey of microbial degradation and bioremediation of Hexachlorocyclohexane. Indian Journal of Microbiology. 48. 1. 2008. 3–18. 0046-8991. 10.1007/s12088-008-0002-9. 3450212. 23100696.
• Malhotra. Shweta. Sharma. Pooja. Kumari. Hansi. Singh. Ajaib. Lal. Rup. Localization of HCH catabolic genes (lin genes) in Sphingobium indicum B90A. Indian Journal of Microbiology. 47. 3. 2007. 271–275. 0046-8991. 10.1007/s12088-007-0050-6. 3450346. 23100677.

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Sphingobium indicum 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.
2. Anand. S.. Sangwan. N.. Lata. P.. Kaur. J.. Dua. A.. Singh. A. K.. Verma. M.. Kaur. J.. Khurana. J. P.. Khurana. P.. Mathur. S.. Lal. R.. Genome Sequence of Sphingobium indicum B90A, a Hexachlorocyclohexane-Degrading Bacterium. Journal of Bacteriology. 194. 16. 2012. 4471–4472. 0021-9193. 10.1128/JB.00901-12. 22843598. 3416241.