Methylothermus thermalis

From Hanson R and Hanson T, 1996..

Classification

Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Methylococcales; Methylococcaceae

Species

Methylothermus thermalis

Description and Significance

Gram-negative, non-motile coccoids 0.6-0.8 micrometers in diameter. Describe the appearance, habitat, etc. of the organism, and why you think it is important.

Genome Structure

Describe the size and content of the genome. How many chromosomes? Circular or linear? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence?

Cell Structure, Metabolism and Life Cycle

Interesting features of cell structure; how it gains energy; what important molecules it produces.

Ecology and Pathogenesis

Japanese Hot Spring; Require methane or methanol as a carbon source to growth. Can use nitrate, ammonia, urea, tryptophan, lysine, glutamate, formamide and Triss as nitrogen sources, but no growth was obsevered without one of these sources. symbiosis; biogeochemical significance; contributions to environment.

References

Jun Tsubota, Bulat Ts. Eshinimaev, Valentina N. Khmelenina and Yuri A. Trotsenko. 2005. "Methylothermus thermalis gen. nov., sp. nov.,a novel moderately thermophilic obligate methanotroph from a hot spring in Japan". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55, 1877–1884.

Hanson R and Hanson T. 1996. "Methanotrophic Bacteria". American Society for Microbiology, Vol. 60, No. 2.

Author

Page authored by Anthony Heidt and James Goodrow Jr., student of Prof. Jay Lennon at Michigan State University.