Sphingobium japonicum explained
Sphingobium japonicum is a hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacteria with type strain MTCC 6362T (=CCM 7287T).[1] Its genome has been sequenced.[2]
Further reading
- Nagata. Yuji. Natsui. Shunsuke. Endo. Ryo. Ohtsubo. Yoshiyuki. Ichikawa. Natsuko. Ankai. Akiho. Oguchi. Akio. Fukui. Shigehiro. Fujita. Nobuyuki. Tsuda. Masataka. Genomic organization and genomic structural rearrangements of Sphingobium japonicum UT26, an archetypal γ-hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacterium. Enzyme and Microbial Technology. 49. 6–7. 2011. 499–508. 0141-0229. 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2011.10.005. 22142724.
- Okai. Masahiko. Kubota. Keiko. Fukuda. Masao. Nagata. Yuji. Nagata. Koji. Tanokura. Masaru. Crystal Structure of γ-Hexachlorocyclohexane Dehydrochlorinase LinA from Sphingobium japonicum UT26. Journal of Molecular Biology. 403. 2. 2010. 260–269. 0022-2836. 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.08.043. 20813114.
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Notes and References
- 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.
- Nagata . Yuji . etal . 2010 . Complete genome sequence of the representative γ-hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacterium Sphingobium japonicum UT26 . Journal of Bacteriology . 192 . 21. 5852–5853 . 10.1128/jb.00961-10. 20817768 . 2953701 .