Species code:	METCA
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Methylococcales; Methylococcaceae; Methylococcus (TaxID: 414) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Obligate, Gram-negative methanotroph. Methanotrophs are responsible for the oxidation of biologically generated methane and therefore help reduce the amount of this greenhouse gas that is released to Earth's atmosphere. The conversion of methane to biomass by M. capsulatus has been exploited for large-scale commercial production of microbial proteins by fermentation.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Interaction: No Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins: 2 in 2 different sequences
Statistics:	Number of METCA entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 2925 (413 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 2512 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number AE017282 (circular; 3,304,561 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=15383840; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Ward N.L., Larsen O., Sakwa J., Bruseth L., Khouri H.M., Durkin A.S., Dimitrov G., Jiang L., Scanlan D., Kang K.H., Lewis M.R., Nelson K.E., Methe B.A., Wu M., Heidelberg J.F., Paulsen I.T., Fouts D.E., Ravel J., Tettelin H., Ren Q., Read T.D., DeBoy R.T., Seshadri R., Salzberg S.L., Jensen H.B., Birkeland N.K., Nelson W.C., Dodson R.J., Grindhaug S.H., Holt I.E., Eidhammer I., Jonasen I., Vanaken S., Utterback T.R., Feldblyum T.V., Fraser C.M., Lillehaug J.R., Eisen J.A. ; "Genomic insights into methanotrophy: the complete genome sequence of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)."; PLoS Biol. 2:1616-1628(2004).
Web links:	CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Methylococcus&GLspecies=capsulatus&GLstrain=Bath Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid243233%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Mcap_BATH PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de:3345/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=start_method&Db=p3_p21_Met_capsu TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=bmc  EBI Proteome Analysis page

• Genome Proximity Viewer: This program displays the genes that are found in the genomic environment of a selected locus.
  
  
• Perform a BLAST search against all proteins from this proteome
  
  
• Download a file by FTP containing all UniProt Knowledgebase entries of this proteome
  • in UniProt Knowledgebase format
  • in FASTA format
  
  
• Retrieve set of characterized or identified proteins for this proteome
  
  
• Retrieve set of proteins with 3D structure for this proteome