Sphingobium indicum (MTCC 8598, CCM 7432, IP 26)

Name: Sphingobium indicum (MTCC 8598, CCM 7432, IP 26)
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BacDive ID 133465

Type strain

Culture col. no. MTCC 8598 CCM 7432 IP 26

NCBI tax ID(s) 332055

Special Collections Literature strains

Sphingobium indicum MTCC 8598 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from HCH dumpsite.

Gram-negative rod-shaped aerobe 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

MTCC 8598 CCM 7432 IP 26

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:31:57

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Sphingomonadales

Family Sphingomonadaceae

Genus Sphingobium

Species Sphingobium indicum

Full scientific name Sphingobium indicum Pal et al. 2005

Synonyms (4)

Sphingobium chinhatense
Sphingobium lucknowense
Sphingobium francense
Sphingobium japonicum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Sphingobium indicum** (3)	Type strain
14184	S. indicum B90A, DSM 16412, CCM 7286, MTCC 6364, CIP ... (type strain)
14185	S. indicum UT26, DSM 16413, CCM 7287, MTCC 6362, CIP ...
23269	S. indicum Sp+, DSM 26779, CCM 7288, MTCC 6363, CCUG ...

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
29075	negative	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

29075

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
29075	positive	growth	20-40

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
29075	positive	growth	06-09	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

29075

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

29075

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29075	NaCl	positive	growth	0-5 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29075	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
29075	27689 ChEBI	decanoate	+	carbon source
29075	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
29075	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
29075	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
29075	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
29075	17268 ChEBI	myo-inositol	+	carbon source
29075	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
29075	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
29075	17814 ChEBI	salicin	+	carbon source
29075	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
29075	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
29075	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29075	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29075	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Engineered	#Built environment

Isolation

29075

Sample typeHCH dumpsite

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EF190507 (>99% sequence identity) for Sphingobium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	363
Soil Samples	78
Animal Samples	118
Plant Samples	77
Total Samples	636

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
29075	Sphingobium chinhatense strain IP26 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF190507	1441		1346790

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Metabolism	Biotransformation of hexabromocyclododecanes with hexachlorocyclohexane-transforming Sphingobium chinhatense strain IP26.	Heeb NV, Grubelnik A, Geueke B, Kohler HE, Lienemann P	Chemosphere	10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.05.047	2017
Genetics	Draft Genome Sequence of Sphingobium chinhatense Strain IP26T, Isolated from a Hexachlorocyclohexane Dumpsite.	Niharika N, Sangwan N, Ahmad S, Singh P, Khurana JP, Lal R	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00680-13	2013
Phylogeny	Sphingobium estronivorans sp. nov. and Sphingobium bisphenolivorans sp. nov., isolated from a wastewater treatment plant.	Qin D, Ma C, Lv M, Yu CP	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003978	2020
Phylogeny	Sphingobium chinhatense sp. nov., a hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)-degrading bacterium isolated from an HCH dumpsite.	Dadhwal M, Jit S, Kumari H, Lal R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.005553-0	2009

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#25505	IJSEM 3140 2009 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.005553-0 , PubMed 19643888 )
#29075	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #25505
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

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Sphingobium indicum (MTCC 8598, CCM 7432, IP 26)

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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