Methylobacterium radiotolerans

Methylobacterium radiotolerans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Methylobacteriaceae
Genus:	Methylobacterium
Binomial name
	Methylobacterium radiotolerans; corrig. (Ito and Iizuka 1971) Green and Bousfield 1983
Synonyms
	Pseudomonas radiora Ito and Iizuka 1971 (Approved Lists 1980); Methylobacterium radiora (Ito and Iizuka 1971) Green and Bousfield 1983;

Methylobacterium radiotolerans is a radiation-tolerating Gram-negative bacterium.^[1] It has been shown that it can use lanthanide as a cofactor to increase its methanol dehydrogenase activity^[2]^[3]

References

^ Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, eds. (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6..
^ Hibi Y, Asai K, Arafuka H, Hamajima M, Iwama T, Kawai K (May 2011). "Molecular structure of La3+-induced methanol dehydrogenase-like protein in Methylobacterium radiotolerans". Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 111 (5): 547–549. doi:10.1016/j.jbiosc.2010.12.017. PMID 21256798.
^ Keltjens, Jan T.; Pol, Arjan; Reimann, Joachim; Op den Camp, Huub J. M. (May 13, 2014). "PQQ-dependent methanol dehydrogenases: rare-earth elements make a difference". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 98 (14): 6163–6183. doi:10.1007/s00253-014-5766-8. hdl:2066/130452. ISSN 0175-7598. PMID 24816778. S2CID 253773622.

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