Draft Genome Sequence of Methylovulum psychrotolerans Sph1T, an Obligate Methanotroph from Low-Temperature Environments

Igor Y Oshkin; Kirill K Miroshnikov; Svetlana E Belova; Aleksei A Korzhenkov; Stepan V Toshchakov; Svetlana N Dedysh

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01488-17

Draft Genome Sequence of Methylovulum psychrotolerans Sph1^T, an Obligate Methanotroph from Low-Temperature Environments

Genome Announc. 2018 Mar 15;6(11):e01488-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01488-17.

Authors

Igor Y Oshkin¹, Kirill K Miroshnikov¹, Svetlana E Belova¹, Aleksei A Korzhenkov², Stepan V Toshchakov², Svetlana N Dedysh³

Affiliations

¹ Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology RAS, Moscow, Russia.
² Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia.
³ Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology RAS, Moscow, Russia dedysh@mail.ru.

Abstract

Methylovulum psychrotolerans Sph1^T is an aerobic, obligate methanotroph, which was isolated from cold methane seeps in West Siberia. This bacterium possesses only a particulate methane monooxygenase and is widely distributed in low-temperature environments. Strain Sph1^T has the genomic potential for biosynthesis of hopanoids required for the maintenance of intracytoplasmic membranes.