Methylibium petroleiphilum

Methylibium petroleiphilum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Methylibium
Species:	M. petroleiphilum
Binomial name
Methylibium petroleiphilum Nakatsu et al. 2006

Methylibium petroleiphilum is a species of methyl tert-butyl ether-degrading methylotroph, the type species of its genus. It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, motile, non-pigmented, facultative aerobe, with type strain PM1^T (=ATCC BAA-1232^T =LMG 22953^T). ^[1]

References

1. Nakatsu, C. H. (2006). "Methylibium petroleiphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel methyl tert-butyl ether-degrading methylotroph of the Betaproteobacteria". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56 (5): 983–989. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.63524-0 . ISSN   1466-5026. PMID   16627642.

Further reading

• Hristova, K. R.; Schmidt, R.; Chakicherla, A. Y.; Legler, T. C.; Wu, J.; Chain, P. S.; Scow, K. M.; Kane, S. R. (2007). "Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Methylibium petroleiphilum PM1 Exposed to the Fuel Oxygenates Methyl tert-Butyl Ether and Ethanol". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73 (22): 7347–7357. Bibcode:2007ApEnM..73.7347H. doi:10.1128/AEM.01604-07. ISSN   0099-2240. PMC   2168209 . PMID   17890343.
• Chen, Dongzhi; Chen, Jianmeng; Zhong, Weihong; Cheng, Zhuowei (2008). "Degradation of methyl tert-butyl ether by gel immobilized Methylibium petroleiphilum PM1". Bioresource Technology. 99 (11): 4702–4708. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2007.09.075. ISSN   0960-8524. PMID   17983743.

External links

• "Methylibium petroleiphilum". The Encyclopedia of Life .
• LPSN
• Type strain of Methylibium petroleiphilum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase