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Cohn’s Crenothrix is a filamentous methane oxidizer with an unusual methane monooxygenase
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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.
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- Stoecker, K., Bendinger, B., Schöning, B., Nielsen, P. H., Nielsen, J. L., Baranyi, C., Toenshoff, E. R., Daims, H., & Wagner, M.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2006-02
- Volume
- 103
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2363-2367
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- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
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- W2152772683
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- 246
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- 0
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- 5.28
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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