Novosphingobium pentaromativorans

Novosphingobium pentaromativorans is a species of high-molecular-mass polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium. It is Gram-negative, yellow-pigmented and halophilic. With type strain US6-1T (=KCTC 10454T =JCM 12182T).[1] Its genome has been sequenced.[2]

Novosphingobium pentaromativorans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Alpha Proteobacteria
Order:
Sphingomonadales
Family:
Sphingomonadaceae
Genus:
Novosphingobium
Species:
Novosphingobium pentaromativorans

Sohn et al. 2004

References
  1. Sohn, J. H. (2004). "Novosphingobium pentaromativorans sp. nov., a high-molecular-mass polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium isolated from estuarine sediment". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (5): 1483–1487. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02945-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 15388699.
  2. Luo, Y. R.; Kang, S. G.; Kim, S.-J.; Kim, M.-R.; Li, N.; Lee, J.-H.; Kwon, K. K. (2012). "Genome Sequence of Benzo(a)pyrene-Degrading Bacterium Novosphingobium pentaromativorans US6-1". Journal of Bacteriology. 194 (4): 907–907. doi:10.1128/JB.06476-11. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 3272951. PMID 22275104.

Further reading
  • Staley, James T., et al. "Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3."Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1989): 2250-2251.


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