Methylocella tundrae

Methylocella tundrae is a species of bacterium.[1] It is notable for oxidising methane. Its cells are aerobic, Gram-negative, non-motile, dinitrogen-fixing rods. Strain T4T (=DSM 15673T =NCIMB 13949T) is the type strain.[2]

Methylocella tundrae
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Pseudomonadota
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Hyphomicrobiales
Family:
Beijerinckiaceae
Genus:
Methylocella
Species:
M. tundrae
Binomial name
Methylocella tundrae
Dedysh et al. 2004

References
  1. 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.
  2. Dedysh, S. N. (2004). "Methylocella tundrae sp. nov., a novel methanotrophic bacterium from acidic tundra peatlands". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (1): 151–156. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02805-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 14742473.

Further reading
  • 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.
  • Neilson, Alasdair H.; Allard, Ann-Sofie. (2013). Organic chemicals in the environment : mechanisms of degradation and transformation. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4398-2637-9.
  • Dedysh, S. N.; Panikov, N. S.; Liesack, W; Grosskopf, R; Zhou, J; Tiedje, J. M. (1998). "Isolation of Acidophilic Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria from Northern Peat Wetlands". Science. 282 (5387): 281–284. doi:10.1126/science.282.5387.281. PMID 9765151.


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