Genome Sequence of the Bile Salt-Degrading Bacterium Novosphingobium sp. Strain Chol11, a Model Organism for Bacterial Steroid Catabolism

Onur Yücel; Daniel Wibberg; Bodo Philipp; Jörn Kalinowski

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01372-17

Genome Sequence of the Bile Salt-Degrading Bacterium Novosphingobium sp. Strain Chol11, a Model Organism for Bacterial Steroid Catabolism

Genome Announc. 2018 Jan 4;6(1):e01372-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01372-17.

Authors

Onur Yücel¹, Daniel Wibberg², Bodo Philipp¹, Jörn Kalinowski³

Affiliations

¹ University of Münster, Institute of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Münster, Germany.
² Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
³ Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany Joern.Kalinowski@Cebitec.Uni-Bielefeld.de.

Abstract

Many bacteria from different phylogenetic groups are able to degrade eukaryotic steroid compounds, but the underlying metabolic pathways are still not well understood. Novosphingobium sp. strain Chol11 is a steroid-degrading alphaproteobacterium. Its genome sequence reveals that it lacks several genes for steroid degradation known to exist in other model organisms.