Methylocapsa acidiphila is a bacterium. It is a methane-oxidizing and dinitrogen-fixing acidophilic bacterium first isolated from Sphagnum bog. Its cells are aerobic, gram-negative, colourless, non-motile, curved coccoids that form conglomerates covered by an extracellular polysaccharide matrix. The cells use methane and methanol as sole sources of carbon and energy. B2T (= DSM 13967T = NCIMB 13765T) is the type strain.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Hyphomicrobiales |
| Family: | Beijerinckiaceae |
| Genus: | Methylocapsa |
| Species: | M. acidiphila
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| Binomial name | |
| Methylocapsa acidiphila Dedysh et al. 2002
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References
edit- ^ Dedysh SN, Khmelenina VN, Suzina NE, et al. (January 2002). "Methylocapsa acidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel methane-oxidizing and dinitrogen-fixing acidophilic bacterium from Sphagnum bog". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (Pt 1): 251–61. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-1-251. PMID 11837310. Retrieved 2013-08-13.
- ^ Kolesnikov, O. M.; Dedysh, S. N.; Panikov, N. S. (2004). "Inhibition of Growth and Methane Consumption in Methylocapsa acidiphila by Mineral Salts". Microbiology. 73 (4): 488–490. doi:10.1023/B:MICI.0000036997.13271.f9. ISSN 0026-2617. PMID 15521186. S2CID 9566047.
Further reading
edit- Margesin, Rosa, ed. Permafrost soils. Vol. 16. Springer, 2009.
- Dedysh, Svetlana; Horz, Hans-Peter; Dunfield, Peter; Liesack, Werner (2001). "A novel pmoA lineage represented by the acidophilic methanotrophic bacterium Methylocapsa acidophila B2". Archives of Microbiology. 177 (1): 117–121. doi:10.1007/s00203-001-0362-6. ISSN 0302-8933. PMID 11797053. S2CID 44225855.
- Ricke, P.; Kube, M.; Nakagawa, S.; Erkel, C.; Reinhardt, R.; Liesack, W. (2005). "First Genome Data from Uncultured Upland Soil Cluster Alpha Methanotrophs Provide Further Evidence for a Close Phylogenetic Relationship to Methylocapsa acidiphila B2 and for High-Affinity Methanotrophy Involving Particulate Methane Monooxygenase". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71 (11): 7472–7482. doi:10.1128/AEM.71.11.7472-7482.2005. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 1287704. PMID 16269789.
External links
edit- "Methylocapsa acidiphila" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- LPSN
- WORMS entry
- Type strain of Methylocapsa acidiphila at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
