Cross Index	Methylovorus glucosotrophus
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

Methylovorus glucosotrophus

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	rods (0.5-0.6 x 1.0-1.4 um) are straight or slightly curved and occur singly or in paris
Motility
Specialized structures	slime may be produced but no capsules, endospores, intracellular membranes, sheaths or prosthecae are detected

Division

binary fission

COLONIAL

Solid surface

On methanol mineral salt agar colonies are circular, 1-2 mm in diameter, with an entire edge, convex, and translucent to opaque, pink, creamy or milky in colour. Pyocyanin and fluorescein are not produced

Liquid

no aggregation of pigmentation observed

 

Growth Parameters

Methylovorus glucosotrophus

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotroph
Oxygen	aerobe respiratory metabolism
pH	optimum pH 7.0-7.2
Temperature	optimum 35- 37 oC
Requirements	Methanol and glucose are used as energy sources. Some strains grow slowly on methylated amines, inulin and betaine. Nitrates, amonium salts, methylated amines glutamate and eptones serce as nitrogen sources
Products	acetoin, indole, H2S and NH3 are not produced milk not hydrolysed. Acid nu no gases from glucose. Fatty acid composition is primarily of the nonhydroxylated straight chain saturated and monosaturated types with C16:0 and C16:1-7
Enzymes	urease positive, catalase positive, oxidase positive. peroxidase variable, arginine dihydrolase negative
Unique features	assimilate methanol carbon thorugh the RuMP pathway and ammonia via the glutamate cycle

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	activated sludge, mud, soil, and pond water
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Methylovorus glucosotrophus

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Methylovorus glucosotrophus

First Citation	Govorukhina and Trostsenko 1991 IJSB 41: 158-162
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 90

References