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Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Strasse, 35043 Marburg, Germany1
Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117312, Russia2
Author for correspondence: Peter Dunfield. Tel: +49 6421 178 733. Fax: +49 6421 178 809. e-mail: dunfield{at}mailer.uni-marburg.de
Type II methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) were isolated from diverse environments, including rice paddies, pristine and polluted freshwaters and sediments, mangrove roots, upland soils, brackish water ecosystems, moors, oil wells, water purification systems and livestock manure. Isolates were identified based on morphological traits as either Methylocystis spp., Methylosinus sporium or Methylosinus trichosporium. Molecular phylogenies were constructed based on nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequences, and on partial sequences of genes encoding PmoA (a subunit of particulate methane monooxygenase), MxaF (a subunit of methanol dehydrogenase) and MmoX (a subunit of soluble methane monooxygenase). The maximum pairwise 16S rDNA difference between isolates was 4·2%, and considerable variability was evident within the Methylocystis (maximum difference 3·6%). Due to this variability, some of the published ‘specific’ oligonucleotide primers for type II MOB exhibit multiple mismatches with gene sequences from some isolates. The phylogenetic tree constructed from pmoA gene sequences closely mirrored that constructed from 16S rDNA sequences, and both supported the presently accepted taxonomy of type II MOB. Contrary to previously published phylogenetic trees, morphologically distinguishable species were generally monophyletic based on pmoA or 16S rRNA gene sequences. This was not true for phylogenies constructed from mmoX and mxaF gene sequences. The phylogeny of mxaF gene sequences suggested that horizontal transfer of this gene may have occurred across type II MOB species. Soluble methane monooxygenase could not be detected in many Methylocystis strains either by an enzyme activity test (oxidation of naphthalene) or by PCR-based amplification of an mmoX gene.
Keywords: Methylosinus, Methylocystis, methane monooxygenase, pmoA, mmoX
Abbreviations: MOB, methane-oxidizing bacteria; sMMO, soluble methane monooxygenase
The GenBank accession numbers for the nearly complete 16S rRNA gene sequences for the isolates are AJ458466 to AJ458510. Partial sequences of the pmoA, mxaF and mmoX genes have been deposited under the accession numbers AJ458994–AJ459052, AJ459053–AJ459100 and AJ458511–AJ458535, respectively. Where multiple strains contained identical sequences, only one has been deposited.
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