ISOLATION AND INITIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AEROBIC CHLOROMETHANE-UTILIZING BACTERIA

Authors
DORONINA NV SOKOLOV AP TROTSENKO YA
Citation
Nv. Doronina et al., ISOLATION AND INITIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AEROBIC CHLOROMETHANE-UTILIZING BACTERIA, FEMS microbiology letters, 142(2-3), 1996, pp. 179-183
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
FEMS microbiology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
03781097
Volume
142
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
179 - 183
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-1097(1996)142:2-3<179:IAICOA>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Eight strains of non-methane-utilizing aerobic methylotrophic bacteria able to grow on chloromethane as the carbon and energy source have be en isolated. Based on their phenotypic and genomic characteristics the new isolates were classified as Hyphomicrobium spp. (strains CM1, CM2 , CM9, CM29, CM35) and Methylobacterium spp. (strains CM4, CM30, CM34) . All the strains possessed an inducible yet unknown enzyme that catal yzed conversion of chloromethane to HCl and formaldehyde. The latter w as oxidized via formate to CO2 or assimilated through icl(+) or icl(-) variants of the serine pathway.