TY - JOUR
T1 - Strain PM2, a novel methylotrophic fluorescent Pseudomonas sp.
AU - Pacheco, Catarina C.
AU - Passos, João F.
AU - Moradas-Ferreira, Pedro
AU - De Marco, Paolo
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to thank Ana Rita Figueredo for her valuable technical assistance. Our gratitude goes to Carlos Miguez for his kind gift of M. extorquens strain AM1 and to J. Colin Murrell, Don P. Kelly, Chris Anthony and Célia Manaia for their helpful suggestions. We are indebted to Hirohide Toyama, Yamaguchi University, Japan for the gift of the anti-MxaF antibody. We acknowledge the 5 th Framework European Union project FPQLK5-CT-200-01528 for financial support.
PY - 2003/10/24
Y1 - 2003/10/24
N2 - A novel bacterial strain, PM2, capable of growing on methanol, was isolated in alkaline conditions from a soil inoculum. This bacterium was characterized at the physiological, biochemical and molecular level. Based on biochemical and molecular data strain PM2 was classified as a novel member of the group of fluorescent pseudomonads. Evidence for the presence of a pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ)-linked alcohol dehydrogenase in this organism is presented. Strain PM2 is, to our knowledge, the first example of a methylotrophic Pseudomonas to be characterized in detail. This novel type of metabolism in Pseudomonas broadens even further the metabolic versatility for which this genus is renowned.
AB - A novel bacterial strain, PM2, capable of growing on methanol, was isolated in alkaline conditions from a soil inoculum. This bacterium was characterized at the physiological, biochemical and molecular level. Based on biochemical and molecular data strain PM2 was classified as a novel member of the group of fluorescent pseudomonads. Evidence for the presence of a pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ)-linked alcohol dehydrogenase in this organism is presented. Strain PM2 is, to our knowledge, the first example of a methylotrophic Pseudomonas to be characterized in detail. This novel type of metabolism in Pseudomonas broadens even further the metabolic versatility for which this genus is renowned.
KW - Alcohol dehydrogenase
KW - Fluorescent
KW - Methylotrophy
KW - Pseudomonas
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U2 - 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00692-X
DO - 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00692-X
M3 - Article
C2 - 14592720
AN - SCOPUS:0242334146
SN - 0378-1097
VL - 227
SP - 279
EP - 285
JO - FEMS Microbiology Letters
JF - FEMS Microbiology Letters
IS - 2
ER -