Methylosinus trichosporium

Methylosinus trichosporium
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Pseudomonadota
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Hyphomicrobiales
Family:
Methylocystaceae
Genus:
Methylosinus
Species:
M. trichosporium
Binomial name
Methylosinus trichosporium
Bowman et al. 1993[1]
Type strain
ACM 3311, ATCC 35070, IMET 10541, NCIMB 11131, OB3b, UNIQEM 75, VKM B-2117[2]

Methylosinus trichosporium is an obligate aerobic and methane-oxidizing bacterium species from the genus of Methylosinus.[1][3][4][5][6] Its native habitat is generally in the soil, but the bacteria has been isolated from fresh water sediments and groundwater as well.[7] Because of this bacterium's ability to oxidize methane, M. trichosporium has been popular for identifying both the structure and function of enzymes involved with methane oxidation since it was first isolated in 1970 by Roger Whittenbury and colleagues.[4][6] Since its discovery, M. trichosporium and its soluble monooxygenase enzyme have been studied in detail to see if the bacterium could help in bioremediation treatments.[8]

  1. ^ a b LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. ^ Straininfo of Methylosinus trichosporium
  3. ^ UniProt
  4. ^ a b Stein, L. Y.; Yoon, S.; Semrau, J. D.; DiSpirito, A. A.; Crombie, A.; Murrell, J. C.; Vuilleumier, S.; Kalyuzhnaya, M. G.; Op den Camp, H. J. M.; Bringel, F.; Bruce, D.; Cheng, J.- F.; Copeland, A.; Goodwin, L.; Han, S.; Hauser, L.; Jetten, M. S. M.; Lajus, A.; Land, M. L.; Lapidus, A.; Lucas, S.; Medigue, C.; Pitluck, S.; Woyke, T.; Zeytun, A.; Klotz, M. G. (15 October 2010). "Genome Sequence of the Obligate Methanotroph Methylosinus trichosporium Strain OB3b". Journal of Bacteriology. 192 (24): 6497–6498. doi:10.1128/JB.01144-10. PMC 3008524. PMID 20952571.
  5. ^ editors, Don J. Brenner, Noel R. Krieg, James T. Staley (2005). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-29298-4. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ a b Whittenbury, R.; Phillips, K. C.; Wilkinson, J. F.YR 1970 (1970). "Enrichment, Isolation and Some Properties of Methane-utilizing Bacteria". Microbiology. 61 (2): 205–218. doi:10.1099/00221287-61-2-205. ISSN 1465-2080. PMID 5476891.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Knief, Claudia (2015-12-15). "Diversity and Habitat Preferences of Cultivated and Uncultivated Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria Evaluated Based on pmoA as Molecular Marker". Frontiers in Microbiology. 6: 1346. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.01346. ISSN 1664-302X. PMC 4678205. PMID 26696968.
  8. ^ Sullivan, Jonathan P.; Dickinson, David; Chase, Howard A. (1998-01-01). "Methanotrophs, Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b, sMMO, and Their Application to Bioremediation". Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 24 (4): 335–373. doi:10.1080/10408419891294217. ISSN 1040-841X. PMID 9887367.