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METHYLOVIRGULA LIGNI
| Class: | Alpha Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Methylovirgula |
| Species: | Methylovirgula ligni |
| Description: | Methylovirgula ligni,an obligately acidophilic, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium with a highly divergent mxaF gene .Two strains of Gram-negative, aerobic, non-pigmented, non-motile, rod-shaped bacteria were isolated from beechwood blocks during decay by the white-rot fungus Hypholoma fasciculare and were designated strains BW863T and BW872. They are capable of methylotrophic growth and assimilate carbon via the ribulose-bisphosphate pathway. In addition to methanol, the novel isolates utilized ethanol, pyruvate and malate. Strains BW863T and BW872 are obligately acidophilic, mesophilic organisms capable of growth at pH 3.1–6.5 (with an optimum at pH 4.5–5.0) and at 4–30 °C. |
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| Source: | Isolated from beechwood blocks during decay by the white-rot fungus Hypholoma fasciculare. |
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| Genbank: | FM252034.(16S rRNA gene) [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
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| Reference: | VOROB'EV (A.V.), DE BOER (W.), FOLMAN (L.B.), BODELIER (P.L.E.), DORONINA (N.V.), SUZINA (N.E.), TROTSENKO (Y.A.) and DEDYSH (S.N.): Methylovirgula ligni gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately acidophilic, facultatively methylotrophic bacterium with a highly divergent mxaF gene. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 2538-2545. |
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