Methylocapsa acidiphila explained

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. B2^T (= DSM 13967^T = NCIMB 13765^T) is the type strain.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• Margesin, Rosa, ed. Permafrost soils. Vol. 16. Springer, 2009.
• Dedysh. Svetlana. Horz. Hans-Peter. Dunfield. Peter. Liesack. Werner. A novel pmoA lineage represented by the acidophilic methanotrophic bacterium Methylocapsa acidophila B2. Archives of Microbiology. 177. 1. 2001. 117–121. 0302-8933. 10.1007/s00203-001-0362-6. 11797053. 44225855.
• Ricke. P.. Kube. M.. Nakagawa. S.. Erkel. C.. Reinhardt. R.. Liesack. W.. 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. 2005. 7472–7482. 0099-2240. 10.1128/AEM.71.11.7472-7482.2005. 16269789. 1287704.

External links

• • LPSN
• WORMS entry
• Type strain of Methylocapsa acidiphila at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Dedysh SN, Khmelenina VN, Suzina NE, etal . Methylocapsa acidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel methane-oxidizing and dinitrogen-fixing acidophilic bacterium from Sphagnum bog . . 52 . Pt 1 . 251–61 . January 2002 . 11837310 . 10.1099/00207713-52-1-251. 2013-08-13. free .
2. Kolesnikov. O. M.. Dedysh. S. N.. Panikov. N. S.. Inhibition of Growth and Methane Consumption in Methylocapsa acidiphila by Mineral Salts. Microbiology. 73. 4. 2004. 488–490. 0026-2617. 10.1023/B:MICI.0000036997.13271.f9. 15521186. 9566047.