Title

Identification and characterization of cresol degrading Pseudomonas monteilii strain SHY from Soil samples

Authors

Shainy Nhattuketty Krishnan^1,2, Anuraj Nayarisseri^3,4 & Usha Rajamanickam^1,*

Affiliation

¹Department of Microbiology, Karpagam University, Karpagam academy of higher education, Eachinary, Coimbatore - 641 021, Tamilnadu, India; ²Department of Microbiology, Safi center for scientific research, Vazhayoor East, Malappuram- 673 633, Kerala, India; ³In silico Research Laboratory, Eminent Biosciences, Vijaynagar, Indore - 452010, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁴Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, LeGene Biosciences Pvt Ltd, Indore - 452010, Madhya Pradesh, India

Email

Usha Rajamanickam - usha.anbu09@gmail.com

Article Type

Hypothesis

Date

Received September 14, 2018; Revised October 1, 2018; Accepted October 2, 2018; Published October 3, 2018

Cresol is an organic pollutant discharged by pharmaceutical, pesticide, coal and gasification industries causing severe organ failure in humans. Therefore, it is of interest to isolate microbes from contaminated site for degrading cresol. We isolated a strain (CR-13) that
survives at 5000ppm cresol with about 80% cresol degradation ability. Immobilized cells showed >99% degradation at high concentration of cresol. The 16S rRNA sequence (accession number: MF278026) deposited in GenBank was used for phylogenetic tree analysis and the strain was grouped under Pseudomonas monteilii. The isolated cresol degrading strain was subsequently named as Pseudomonas monteilii SHY.

Keywords

Cresol degrading bacteria, Pseudomonas monteilii, 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing

Citation

Krishnan et al. Bioinformation 14(9): 455-464 (2018)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.