Methylophaga thiooxydans

Methylophaga thiooxydans
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Thiotrichales
Family: Piscirickettsiaceae
Genus: Methylophaga
Species:
M. thiooxydans
Binomial name
Methylophaga thiooxydans
(Boden et al. 2011)[1]
Type strain
DSM 22068T

Methylophaga thiooxydans is a methylotrophic bacterium that requires high salt concentrations for growth. It was originally isolated from a culture of the algae Emiliania huxleyi, where it grows by breaking down dimethylsulfoniopropionate from E. hexleyi into dimethylsulfide and acrylate.[2][3][4][5] M. thiooxydans has been implicated as a dominant organism in phytoplankton blooms, where it consumes dimethylsulfide, methanol and methyl bromide released by dying phytoplankton.[6][7] It was also identified as one of the dominant organisms present in the plume following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill,[8] and was identified as a major player in the breakdown of methanol in coastal surface water in the English Channel.[9]

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  6. ^ Neufeld JD, Boden R, Moussard H, Schäfer H, Murrell JD (2008). "Substrate-Specific Clades of Active Marine Methylotrophs Associated with a Phytoplankton Bloom in a Temperate Coastal Environment". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74 (23): 7321–7328. doi:10.1128/AEM.01266-08. PMC 2592898. PMID 18849453.
  7. ^ Neufeld JD, Schäfer H, Cox MJ, Boden R, McDonald IR, Murrell JC (2007). "Stable-isotope probing implicates Methylophaga spp and novel Gammaproteobacteria in marine methanol and methylamine metabolism". ISME Journal. 1 (6): 480–491. doi:10.1038/ismej.2007.65. PMID 18043650.
  8. ^ Rivers AR, Sharma S, Tringe SG, Martin J, Joye SB, Moran MA (2013). "Transcriptional response of bathypelagic marine bacterioplankton to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill". ISME Journal. 7 (12): 2315–2329. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.129. PMC 3834857. PMID 23902988.
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