Publication Date:
1998-10-09
Description:
Acidic northern wetlands are an important source of methane, one of the gases that contributes to global warming. Methane oxidation in the surface of these acidic wetlands can reduce the methane flux to the atmosphere up to 90 percent. Here the isolation of three methanotrophic microorganisms from three boreal forest sites is reported. They are moderately acidophilic organisms and have a soluble methane monooxygenase. In contrast to the known groups of methanotrophs, 16S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis shows that they are affiliated with the acidophilic heterotrophic bacterium Beijerinckia indica subsp. indica.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dedysh, S N -- Panikov, N S -- Liesack, W -- Grosskopf, R -- Zhou, J -- Tiedje, J M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 9;282(5387):281-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117811, Russia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9765151" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Biological Evolution
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DNA, Bacterial/genetics
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DNA, Ribosomal/*genetics
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Genes, Bacterial
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Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci/classification/genetics/*isolation &
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purification/metabolism
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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Methane/*metabolism
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Methylococcaceae/classification/genetics/*isolation & purification/metabolism
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Oxygenases/chemistry/*genetics
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Phylogeny
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RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
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Russia
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Sequence Alignment
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Siberia
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*Soil Microbiology
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Solubility
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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