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  • Title: Nitrogen metabolism in a new obligate methanotroph, 'Methylosinus' strain 6.
    Author: Toukdarian AE, Lidstrom ME.
    Journal: J Gen Microbiol; 1984 Jul; 130(7):1827-37. PubMed ID: 6432952.
    Abstract:
    A new obligate methanotroph was isolated and characterized. It was classified as a 'Methylosinus' species and named 'Methylosinus' sp. strain 6. Nitrogen metabolism in 'Methylosinus' 6 was found to be similar to other Type II methanotrophs, including the assimilation of nitrogen exclusively by the glutamine synthetase/glutamate synthase system. However, unlike other Type II methanotrophs, it appeared that glutamine synthetase activity was regulated by adenylylation in this organism. 'Methylosinus' 6 was grown in continuous culture with either dinitrogen or nitrate as sole nitrogen source under various dissolved oxygen tensions. Higher rates of methane oxidation and a more developed intracytoplasmic membrane system were found at lower oxygen tensions with nitrate as the nitrogen source but at higher oxygen tensions with dinitrogen as the nitrogen source. This suggested that carbon metabolism was influenced by nitrogen metabolism in this organism.
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