Cross Index	Methylobacillus glycogenes
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci
Compare	Acetobacter, Acidiphilium, Acidomonas methanolica, Acidothermus cellulolyticus, Acidovorax, Acinetobacter, Afipia, Agrobacterium, Agromonas oligotrophica, Alcaligenes, Alteromonas, Aminobacter, Aquaspirillum, Azomonas, Azorhizobium caulinodans, Azotobacter, Bacteroides, Beijerinckia, Bordetella, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Brucella, Chromohalobacter marismortui, Chryseomonas luteola, Comamonas, Cupriavidus necator, Deleya, Derxia gummosa, Ensifer adherans, Erythrobacter longus, Flavimonas oryzihabitans, Flavobacterium, Francisella, Frateuria aurantica, Gluconobacter, Halomonas, Hydrogenophaga, Janthinobacterium lividum, Kingella, Lampropedia hyalina, Legionella, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Marinomonas, Mesophilobacter marinus, Methylobacillus glycogenes, Methylobacterium, Methylococcus, Methylomonas, Methylophaga, Methylophilus, Methylovorus glucosotrophus, Moraxella, Morococcus cerebrosus, Neisseriaceae, Neisseria, Oceanospirillum, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Oligella, Paracoccus, Phenylobacterium immobile, Phyllobacterium, Pseudomonas, Psychrobacter immobilis, Rhizobacter daucus, Rhizobium, Rhizomonas suberifaciens, Rochalimaea, Roseobacter, Rugomonas rubra, Serpens, Sinorhizobium, Sphingobacterium, Taylorella equigenitalis, Thermoleophilum, Thermomicrobium, Thermus, Variovorax paradoxus, Volcaniella eurhalina, Weeksella, Wolinella, Xanthobacter, Xanthomonas, Xyella fastidiosa, Xylophilus ampelinus, Zoogloea ramigera
Contrast	Archaea

 

Morphology

Methylobacillus glycogenes

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	short rods
Motility	nonmotile or motile by a single polar flagellum
Specialized structures	no capsules no poly-beta-hydroxbutyrate granules no spores

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

colonies on methanol containing agar are shiny, smooth, raised, entire, white to light yellow and 1-3 mm in diameter after 3 days

Liquid

water solulbe pigments not produced

 

Growth Parameters

Methylobacillus glycogenes

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	obligate methylotrophs
Oxygen	strict aerobes with respiratory metabolism
pH	range pH 6.0-8.0
Temperature	optimum 30 oC and 50% of strains grow at 42 oC
Requirements	Strict methylotrophs that grow on C1 compounds including methanol and which cannot grow on methane. Some strains require thamine for growth. Most strains do not grow in media supplemented with 3% NaCl
Products	utilization of D- fructose varies from strain to strain. nitrate reduced to nitrite. Methyl red, Voges-Proskauer and indole negative. H2S not produced. Ammonia not produced. Most sugars are not used. D-fructose and methylamine may be used.
Enzymes	oxidase negative, catalase positive, urease produced
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Methylobacillus glycogenes

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Methylobacillus glycogenes

First Citation	Urakami and Komagata 1986 IJSB 36: 502-511
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 87

References