TY - JOUR
T1 - Cohn's Crenothrix is a filamentous methane oxidizer with an unusual methane monooxygenase
AU - Stöcker, Kilian
AU - Bendinger, B
AU - Schöning, Björn
AU - Nielsen, Per Hostrup
AU - Nielsen, Jeep L.
AU - Baranyi, Christian
AU - Tönshoff, Elena
AU - Daims, Holger
AU - Wagner, Michael
N1 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0506361103
Coden: PNASA
Affiliations: Department fu?r Mikrobielle O?kologie, Universita?t Wien, A-1090 Wien, Austria; Deutsche Vereinigung des Gas- und Wasserfaches-Forschungsstelle, Technische Universita?t Hamburg, D-21073 Hamburg, Germany; Department of Life Sciences, Aalborg University, DK-9000 Aalborg, Denmark; Department fu?r Mikrobielle O?kologie, Universita?t Wien, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Adressen: Wagner, M.; Department fu?r Mikrobielle O?kologie; Universita?t Wien; Althanstrasse 14 A-1090 Wien, Austria; email: [email protected]
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PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - 135 years ago Ferdinand Cohn, the founder of bacteriology, microscopically observed a conspicuous filamentous bacterium with a complex life cycle and described it as Crenothrix polyspora. This uncultured bacterium is infamous for mass developments in drinking water systems, but its phylogeny and physiology remained unknown. We show that C. polyspora is a gammaproteobacterium closely related to methanotrophs and capable of oxidizing methane. We discovered that C. polyspora encodes a phylogenetically very unusual particulate methane monooxygenase whose expression is strongly increased in the presence of methane. Our findings demonstrate a previously unrecognized complexity of the evolutionary history and cell biology of methane-oxidizing bacteria. Π2006 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
AB - 135 years ago Ferdinand Cohn, the founder of bacteriology, microscopically observed a conspicuous filamentous bacterium with a complex life cycle and described it as Crenothrix polyspora. This uncultured bacterium is infamous for mass developments in drinking water systems, but its phylogeny and physiology remained unknown. We show that C. polyspora is a gammaproteobacterium closely related to methanotrophs and capable of oxidizing methane. We discovered that C. polyspora encodes a phylogenetically very unusual particulate methane monooxygenase whose expression is strongly increased in the presence of methane. Our findings demonstrate a previously unrecognized complexity of the evolutionary history and cell biology of methane-oxidizing bacteria. Π2006 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.0506361103
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0506361103
M3 - Article
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 103
SP - 2363
EP - 2367
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
IS - 7
ER -