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Aerobic Methylotrophic Prokaryotes

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The Prokaryotes

1 Introduction

Methylotrophic bacteria are those organisms with the ability to utilize (as their sole source of carbon and energy) reduced carbon substrates with no carbon-carbon bonds. By this definition the group includes bacteria that can grow on substrates such as methane, methanol, methylated amines, halogenated methanes and methylated sulfur species. Methylotrophic bacteria are quite widespread in nature, being found in a variety of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (King, 1992). They appear to play an important role in the cycling of carbon in specific habitats (King, 1992), and they comprise the principal biological sink for methane and other methylated greenhouse gases, highlighting an important role in global warming (King, 1992; Oremland and Culbertson, 1992). Although many anaerobic methylotrophic bacteria are known, especially among the methanogens, this chapter will cover only the aerobic and facultatively anaerobic methylotrophs (for convenience, termed “aerobic...

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Lidstrom, M.E. (2006). Aerobic Methylotrophic Prokaryotes. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30742-7_20

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