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Methylophaga alcalica sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic, obligately methylotrophic bacterium from an East Mongolian saline soda lake.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Jan 2003
Doronina Nina V, Darmaeva Tsyregma D, Trotsenko Yuri A
Abstract excerpt
A moderately haloalkaliphilic and obligately methylotrophic bacterium (strain M39T) with the ribulose monophosphate pathway of carbon assimilation is described. Cells of this methanol and methylamine utilizer are aerobic, Gram-negative, asporogenous, motile short rods, multiplying by binary fission. It is auxotrophic for vitamin B12 and requires NaHCO3 or NaCl for growth in alkaline medium. Its cellular fatty...
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