Draft Genome Sequence of Methyloferula stellata AR4, an Obligate Methanotroph Possessing Only a Soluble Methane Monooxygenase

Svetlana N Dedysh; Daniil G Naumoff; Alexey V Vorobev; Nikos Kyrpides; Tanja Woyke; Nicole Shapiro; Andrew T Crombie; J Colin Murrell; Marina G Kalyuzhnaya; Angela V Smirnova; Peter F Dunfield

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01555-14

Draft Genome Sequence of Methyloferula stellata AR4, an Obligate Methanotroph Possessing Only a Soluble Methane Monooxygenase

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 5;3(2):e01555-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01555-14.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ S.N. Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia dedysh@mail.ru.
² S.N. Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia.
³ Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Joint Genome Institute, Biosciences Division Genome Science B6, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
⁵ School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom.
⁶ Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Abstract

Methyloferula stellata AR4 is an aerobic acidophilic methanotroph, which, in contrast to most known methanotrophs but similar to Methylocella spp., possesses only a soluble methane monooxygenase. However, it differs from Methylocella spp. by its inability to grow on multicarbon substrates. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of this bacterium.