Disease relevance of Methylobacillus

• Pioneers in the community spatial succession appeared to include thermotolerant, microaerophilic methanol-oxidizing bacteria related to the genus Methylobacillus, as well as thermotolerant, microaerophilic nitrogen-fixing bacteria related to the genus Azospirillum [1].
• By means of interspecific complementation of an Escherichia coli recA- mutation with phasmids containing a gene bank from an obligate methylotroph, Methylobacillus flagellatum (Mf), the recA+ gene from this bacterium was identified [2].

High impact information on Methylobacillus

• The o-type oxidase from the methanol-grown obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus flagellatus KT has been purified to homogeneity [3].
• Cloning and nucleotide sequences of the homoserine dehydrogenase genes (hom) and the threonine synthase genes (thrC) of the gram-negative obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus glycogenes [4].
• Thus, unlike M. extorquens AM1 and Methylobacillus flagellatum KT, M. methylotrophus W3A1-NS does not have an additional methylamine dehydrogenase system for amine oxidation [5].
• Methylobacillus sp. strain 12S produces an exopolysaccharide (EPS), methanolan, composed of glucose, mannose and galactose [6].
• Finally, a similar model was developed for the ribulose monophosphate pathway obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus flagellatum KT to compare the efficiency of carbon utilization in the two types of methylotrophic carbon utilization pathways [7].

Chemical compound and disease context of Methylobacillus

• Organization of threonine biosynthesis genes from the obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus flagellatus [8].
• Analysis of two formaldehyde oxidation pathways in Methylobacillus flagellatus KT, a ribulose monophosphate cycle methylotroph [9].
• Effects of the amplification of the genes coding for the L-threonine biosynthetic enzymes on the L-threonine production from methanol by a gram-negative obligate methylotroph, Methylobacillus glycogenes [10].
• Saccharide production from methanol by transposon 5 mutants derived from the extracellular polysaccharide-producing bacterium Methylobacillus sp. strain 12S [11].
• Identification and characterization of the pqqDGC gene cluster involved in pyrroloquinoline quinone production in an obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus flagellatum [12].

Biological context of Methylobacillus

• We constructed recombinant plasmids carrying the genes coding for the L-threonine biosynthetic enzymes, the hom gene, the hom-thrC genes, and the thrB genes, of a gram-negative obligate methylotroph, Methylobacillus glycogenes, and examined the effects of them on the production of L-threonine from methanol [10].
• A new restricted facultative methanol-oxidizing bacterium Methylobacillus sp. strain SK1 (DSM 8269) was subjected to insertion mutagenesis studies with the transposon Tn5 to generate mutants deficient in the production of methanol dehydrogenase (MDH) [13].

Gene context of Methylobacillus

• Cloning and sequencing of the aldehyde oxidase gene from Methylobacillus sp. KY4400 [14].

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