Complete genome sequence of Methylocystis sp. strain SC2, an aerobic methanotroph with high-affinity methane oxidation potential

Bomba Dam; Somasri Dam; Michael Kube; Richard Reinhardt; Werner Liesack

doi:10.1128/JB.01446-12

Complete genome sequence of Methylocystis sp. strain SC2, an aerobic methanotroph with high-affinity methane oxidation potential

J Bacteriol. 2012 Nov;194(21):6008-9. doi: 10.1128/JB.01446-12.

Authors

Bomba Dam¹, Somasri Dam, Michael Kube, Richard Reinhardt, Werner Liesack

Affiliation

¹ Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany.

Abstract

Methylocystis sp. strain SC2 is an aerobic type II methanotroph isolated from a highly polluted aquifer in Germany. A specific trait of the SC2 strain is the expression of two isozymes of particulate methane monooxygenase with different methane oxidation kinetics. Here we report the complete genome sequence of this methanotroph that contains not only a circular chromosome but also two large plasmids.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aerobiosis
Chromosomes, Bacterial
DNA, Bacterial / chemistry*
DNA, Bacterial / genetics*
Genome, Bacterial*
Germany
Methane
Methylocystaceae / genetics*
Methylocystaceae / isolation & purification
Methylocystaceae / physiology
Molecular Sequence Data
Oxidation-Reduction
Oxygenases / genetics
Oxygenases / metabolism
Plasmids
Sequence Analysis, DNA*
Water Microbiology

Substances

DNA, Bacterial
Oxygenases
methane monooxygenase
Methane

Associated data

GENBANK/FO000001
GENBANK/FO000002
GENBANK/HE956757