Species code:	METPB
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rhizobiales; Methylobacteriaceae; Methylobacterium (TaxID: 441620) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Methylobacterium populi (strain ATCC BAA-705 / NCIMB 13946 / BJ001) is a pink-pigmented, aerobic, facultatively methylotrophic Gram-negative bacterium isolated from internal poplar tissues (Populus deltoides x nigra DN34). The pink color is due to the presence of carotenoids. The cells are asporogenous rods (singly, in pairs or in rosettes) and motile by one single polar or lateral flagellum. Methylobacterium populi can be separated from other members of the genus Methylobacterium. It is the only member of the genus Methylobacterium to be described as an endophyte of poplar trees, and differs from others Methylobacterium species in its carbon-source utilization pattern, particularly its use of methane as the sole source of carbon and energy. It also grows on C1 substrates, such as methanol, methylamine, formate and formaldehyde, and is able to mineralize the toxic explosives hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) and octahydro-1,3,5,7-tertanitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) to CO2. According to their widespread distribution in a diversity of environments, Methylobacterium species may be suited for natural attenuation or in situ bioremediation of polluted sites and may play an important ecological role by consuming methane, the greenhouse effect.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: Plant endophyte Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of METPB entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 5325 (17 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 5308 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome EMBL accession number CP001029 (circular; 5,800,441 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pMPOP01 EMBL accession number CP001030 (circular; 25,164 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Plasmid pMPOP02 EMBL accession number CP001031 (circular; 23,392 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Glavina del Rio T., Dalin E., Tice H., Bruce D., Goodwin L., Pitluck S., Chertkov O., Brettin T., Detter J.C., Han C., Kuske C.R., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Marx C., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of chromosome of Methylobacterium populi BJ001."; Submitted (APR-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. [2] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Glavina del Rio T., Dalin E., Tice H., Bruce D., Goodwin L., Pitluck S., Chertkov O., Brettin T., Detter J.C., Han C., Kuske C.R., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Marx C., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of plamid1 of Methylobacterium populi BJ001."; Submitted (APR-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases. [3] Copeland A., Lucas S., Lapidus A., Glavina del Rio T., Dalin E., Tice H., Bruce D., Goodwin L., Pitluck S., Chertkov O., Brettin T., Detter J.C., Han C., Kuske C.R., Schmutz J., Larimer F., Land M., Hauser L., Kyrpides N., Mikhailova N., Marx C., Richardson P. ; "Complete sequence of plamid2 of Methylobacterium populi BJ001."; Submitted (APR-2008) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/metpo/metpo.home.html Other web sites: GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Mpop_BJ001  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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