Abstract
Sphingobium lucknowense F2T, isolated from the hexachlorocylcohexane (HCH) dumpsite located in Ummari village, Lucknow, India, rapidly degrades HCH isomers. Here we report the draft genome of strain F2 (4.4 Mbp), consisting of 4,910 protein coding genes with an average G+C content of 64.3%.
Highlights
Sphingobium lucknowense F2T, isolated from the hexachlorocylcohexane (HCH) dumpsite located in Ummari village, Lucknow, India, rapidly degrades HCH isomers
To continue our previous efforts to characterize the microbial diversity at a hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) dumpsite by using culture-dependent [1,2,3,4,5,6] and culture-independent [7, 8] approaches, we have isolated from an HCH dumpsite yet another bacterial strain, characterized as Sphingobium lucknowense F2T [1]
This strain was found to rapidly degrade all HCH isomers (␣, ␥, , and ␦-HCH), as reported earlier for Sphingobium spp. [1, 9,10,11,12]. This motivated our efforts to sequence the genome of F2T and compare its draft genome with the already-sequenced draft genomes of sphingomonads isolated from a similar HCH dumpsite [13,14,15,16,17,18,19]
Summary
Sphingobium lucknowense F2T, isolated from the hexachlorocylcohexane (HCH) dumpsite located in Ummari village, Lucknow, India, rapidly degrades HCH isomers. To continue our previous efforts to characterize the microbial diversity at a hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) dumpsite by using culture-dependent [1,2,3,4,5,6] and culture-independent [7, 8] approaches, we have isolated from an HCH dumpsite yet another bacterial strain, characterized as Sphingobium lucknowense F2T [1]. This strain was found to rapidly degrade all HCH isomers (␣-, ␥-, -, and ␦-HCH), as reported earlier for Sphingobium spp.
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