Sphingobium japonicum

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Sphingobium japonicum
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Sphingomonadales
Family: Sphingomonadaceae
Genus: Sphingobium
Species:
S. japonicum
Binomial name
Sphingobium japonicum
Pal et al. 2005

Sphingobium japonicum is a hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacteria with type strain MTCC 6362T (=CCM 7287T). [1] Its genome has been sequenced. [2]

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References

  1. Pal, R. (2005). "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): 1965–1972. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.63201-0 . ISSN   1466-5026. PMID   16166696.
  2. Nagata, Yuji; et al. (2010). "Complete genome sequence of the representative γ-hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacterium Sphingobium japonicum UT26". Journal of Bacteriology. 192 (21): 5852–5853. doi:10.1128/jb.00961-10. PMC   2953701 . PMID   20817768.

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