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Methylobacterium radiotolerans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Methylobacteriaceae
Genus:	Methylobacterium
Species:	M. radiotolerans
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. It has been shown that it can use lanthanide as a cofactor to increase its methanol dehydrogenase activity

See also

• Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum
• Methylorubrum extorquens

References

1. 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..
2. 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.
3. 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.

External links

• Methylobacterium radiotolerans NCBI
• Type strain of Methylobacterium radiotolerans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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