Abstract
Here, we report the draft genome sequence of the hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)-degrading bacterium Sphingobium ummariense strain RL-3, which was isolated from the HCH dumpsite located in Lucknow, India (27°00′N and 81°09′E). The annotated draft genome sequence (4.75 Mb) of strain RL-3 consisted of 139 contigs, 4,645 coding sequences, and 65% G+C content.
Highlights
We report the draft genome sequence of the hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)-degrading bacterium Sphingobium ummariense strain RL-3, which was isolated from the HCH dumpsite located in Lucknow, India (27°00=N and 81°09=E)
Sphingobium ummariense strain RL-3 was isolated from the hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) dumpsite created during the purification process of insecticidal ␥-HCH isomer from technical HCH [1]
Apart from housing the HCH-degradative lin genes, strain RL-3 encodes a diverse array of proteins involved in the degradation of catechol, protocatechuate, and vanillate
Summary
We report the draft genome sequence of the hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)-degrading bacterium Sphingobium ummariense strain RL-3, which was isolated from the HCH dumpsite located in Lucknow, India (27°00=N and 81°09=E). Sphingobium ummariense strain RL-3 was isolated from the hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) dumpsite created during the purification process of insecticidal ␥-HCH isomer from technical HCH [1]. RL-3 has been documented to degrade all four major isomers of HCH, i.e., ␣-, -, ␥-, and ␦-HCH, with a degradation rate comparable to that of Sphingobium indicum B90A, the representative avid degrader of HCH [3].
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