| Entry | T00921 |
| Org code | mea |
| Name | Methylorubrum extorquens AM1 |
| Category | Reference genome |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:272630 |
| 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_000022685.1 Complete Genome) |
| Keywords | Methylotroph |
| Comment | Pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophic bacteria of the Alpha-proteobacterial genus Methylobacterium.
Used as a workhorse to characterize the serine cycle for assimilation of the C1-unit of methylene tetrahydrofolate, a central intermediate in methylotrophic metabolism, and more recently the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway for glyoxylate regeneration.
First isolated in 1960 in Oxford, England, as an airborne contaminant growing on methylamine. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP001510) |
| Plasmid | megaplasmid; Circular (GB: CP001511)
p1META1; Circular (GB: CP001512)
p2META1; Circular (GB: CP001513)
p3META1; Circular (GB: CP001514) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 6234
Number of RNA genes: 86 |
| 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 |
