Sphingobium chlorophenolicum

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| image = Sphingobium chlorophenolicum L1.jpeg

| image_alt = Colonies of the gram negative bacterium Sphingobium chlorophenolicum L1

| genus = Sphingobium

| species = chlorophenolicum

| authority = (Nohynek et al. 1995) Takeuchi et al. 2001{{cite journal |last1=Takeuchi |first1=Mariko |last2=Hamana |first2=Koei |last3=Hiraishi |first3=Akira |year=2001 |title=Proposal of the genus Sphingomonas sensu stricto and three new genera, Sphingobium, Novosphingobium and Sphingopyxis, on the basis of phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses. |journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=1405–1417 |doi=10.1099/00207713-51-4-1405}}

| synonyms = *Sphingomonas chlorophenolica Nohynek et al. 1995

• Arthrobacter sp. ATCC 33790

| type_strain = ATCC 33790

|type_strain_ref = {{cite journal |last1=Nohynek |first1=Liisa J. |last2=Suhonen |first2=Eeva L. |last3=Nurmiaho-Lassila |first3=Eeva-Liisa |last4=Hantula |first4=Jarkko |last5=Salkinoja-Salonen |first5=Mirja |year=1995 |title=Description of Four Pentachlorophenol-Degrading Bacterial Strains as Sphingomonas chlorophenolica sp. nov. |journal=Systematic and Applied Microbiology |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=527–538 |doi=10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80413-3}}

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Sphingobium chlorophenolicum is a species of gram-negative bacteria. The type strain was first identified from North American soils contaminated with chlorophenols and was formally described in 1995. It is of interest to researchers because it can mineralise the toxic pesticide pentachlorophenol (PCP).{{cite journal |last1=Copley |first1=Shelley D. |last2=Rokicki |first2=Joseph |last3=Turner |first3=Pernilla |last4=Daligault |first4=Hajnalka |last5=Nolan |first5=Matt |last6=Land |first6=Miriam |year=2012 |title=The Whole Genome Sequence of Sphingobium chlorophenolicum L-1: Insights into the Evolution of the Pentachlorophenol Degradation Pathway |journal=Genome Biology and Evolution |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=184–198 |pmid=22179583 |pmc=3318906 |doi=10.1093/gbe/evr137}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.jgi.doe.gov/sequencing/why/schlorophenolicum.html

|title=Why sequence Sphingobium chlorophenolicum?

|publisher=DOE Joint Genome Institute |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217043251/http://www.jgi.doe.gov/sequencing/why/schlorophenolicum.html |archive-date=17 February 2013 |url-status=dead

|access-date=7 February 2013}}{{cite journal |last1=Hlouchova |first1=Klara |last2=Rudolph |first2=Johannes |last3=Pietari |first3=Jaana M. H. |last4=Behlen |first4=Linda S. |last5=Copley |first5=Shelley D. |date=2012-05-08 |title=Pentachlorophenol Hydroxylase, a Poorly Functioning Enzyme Required for Degradation of Pentachlorophenol by Sphingobium chlorophenolicum |journal=Biochemistry |language=en |volume=51 |issue=18 |pages=3848–3860 |doi=10.1021/bi300261p |issn=0006-2960 |pmc=4251658 |pmid=22482720}}