Methylocella palustris

Methylocella palustris is a species of bacterium.[1] It is notable for oxidising methane. It is acidophilic and was first found in a peat bogs, representing a novel subtype of serine-pathway methanotrophs, for which a new genus was described. It is aerobic, Gram-negative, colourless, non-motile and its cells can be straight or curved rods. Strain KT (= ATCC 700799T) is the type strain.

Methylocella palustris
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M. palustris
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Methylocella palustris
Dedysh et al., 2000

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  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.

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