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

Yuecel O, Wibberg D, Philipp B, Kalinowski J. Genome Sequence of the Bile Salt-Degrading Bacterium Novosphingobium sp. Strain Chol11, a Model Organism for Bacterial Steroid Catabolism. MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 2018;6(1): UNSP e01372-17.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