| Entry | T00947 |
| Org code | mdi |
| Name | Methylorubrum extorquens DM4 (Methylobacterium extorquens DM4) |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:661410 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Hyphomicrobiales; Methylobacteriaceae; Methylorubrum; Methylorubrum extorquens |
| Org group | Bacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Hyphomicrobiales |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000083545.1 Complete Genome) |
| Keywords | Methylotroph |
| Comment | Pink-pigmented facultative methylotroph.
Grows on one or several reduced one carbon (C1) compounds other than methane, most prominently methanol.
Capable of degrading the organohalogenated pollutant dichloromethane (DCM).
Isolated from industrial wastewater sludge in Switzerland. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: FP103042) |
| Plasmid | p1METDI; Circular (GB: FP103043)
p2METDI; Circular (GB: FP103044) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 5741
Number of RNA genes: 88 |
| Created | 2009 |
| Reference | PMID: 19440302 |
| Authors | Vuilleumier S, Chistoserdova L, Lee MC, Bringel F, Lajus A, Zhou Y, Gourion B, Barbe V, Chang J, Cruveiller S, et al. |
| Title | Methylobacterium genome sequences: a reference blueprint to investigate microbial metabolism of C1 compounds from natural and industrial sources. |
| Journal | PLoS One 4:e5584 (2009)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005584 |
