Methylocella palustris is a species of bacterium.[1] It is notable for oxidising methane. It is acidophilic and was first found in a peat bogs, representing a novel subtype of serine-pathway methanotrophs, for which a new genus was described. It is aerobic, Gram-negative, colourless, non-motile and its cells can be straight or curved rods. Strain KT (= ATCC 700799T) is the type strain.
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References
edit- ^ Dedysh, S. N.; Liesack, W.; Khmelenina, V. N.; Suzina, N. E.; Trotsenko, Y. A.; Semrau, J. D.; Bares, A. M.; Panikov, N. S.; Tiedje, J. M. (2000). "Methylocella palustris gen. nov., sp. nov., a new methane-oxidizing acidophilic bacterium from peat bogs, representing a novel subtype of serine-pathway methanotrophs". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 50 (3): 955–969. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-3-955. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 10843033.
Further reading
edit- Vos, Paul W.; Don J. Brenner; Staley, James T.; Boone, David R.; Garrity, George M.; Goodfellow, Michael; Krieg, Noel R.; Rainey, Fred A.; Karl-Heinz Schleifer (2005). Bergeys Manual? of Systematic Bacteriology Volume Two The Proteobacteria Part C The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. Boston, MA: Bergeys Manual Trust. ISBN 0-387-29298-5.
- Dedysh, S. N.; Knief, C.; Dunfield, P. F. (2005). "Methylocella Species Are Facultatively Methanotrophic". Journal of Bacteriology. 187 (13): 4665–4670. doi:10.1128/JB.187.13.4665-4670.2005. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 1151763. PMID 15968078.
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