PROTEOBACTERIA >> Alpha >> Methylocapsa >> Methylocapsa aurea
METHYLOCAPSA AUREA
| Class: | Alpha Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Methylocapsa |
| Species: | Methylocapsa aurea |
| Description: | Methylocapsa aurea,a facultative methanotroph possessing a particulate methane monooxygenase.An aerobic, methanotrophic bacterium, designated KYGT, was isolated from a forest soil in Germany. Cells of strain KYGT were Gram-negative, non-motile, slightly curved rods that multiplied by binary fission and produced yellow colonies. The cells contained intracellular granules of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate at each cell pole, a particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) and stacks of intracytoplasmic membranes (ICMs) packed in parallel along one side of the cell envelope. Strain KYGT grew at pH 5.2–7.2 and 2–33 °C and could fix atmospheric nitrogen under reduced oxygen tension. |
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| Source: | Isolated from a forest soil in Germany. |
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| Genbank: | NZ_JQKO00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 3.97 |
| GC %: | 61.3 |
| Genes: | 3,684 |
| CDS Number: | 3,520 |
| Reference: | DUNFIELD (P.F.), BELOVA (S.E.), VOROB'EV (A.V.), CORNISH (S.L.) and DEDYSH (S.N.): Methylocapsa aurea sp. nov., a facultative methanotroph possessing a particulate methane monooxygenase, and emended description of the genus Methylocapsa. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2010, 60, 2659-2664. |
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