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Genome sequence of the methanotrophic alphaproteobacterium Methylocystis sp. strain Rockwell (ATCC 49242)

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J Bacteriol 193(10) , 2668-9 (May 2011)

Author(s):

Stein, L. Y., Bringel, F., DiSpirito, A. A., Han, S., Jetten, M. S., Kalyuzhnaya, M. G., Kits, K. D., Klotz, M. G., Op den Camp, H. J., Semrau, J. D., Vuilleumier, S., Bruce, D. C., Cheng, J. F., Davenport, K. W., Goodwin, L., Han, S., Hauser, L., Lajus, A., Land, M. L., Lapidus, A., Lucas, S., Medigue, C., Pitluck, S., Woyke, T.

DOI:

10.1128/JB.00278-11

Abstract:

Methylocystis sp. strain Rockwell (ATCC 49242) is an aerobic methane-oxidizing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an aquifer in southern California. Unlike most methanotrophs in the Methylocystaceae family, this strain has a single pmo operon encoding particulate methane monooxygenase but no evidence of the genes encoding soluble methane monooxygenase. This is the first reported genome sequence of a member of the Methylocystis species of the Methylocystaceae family in the order Rhizobiales.

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