Methylobacterium genome sequences: a reference blueprint to investigate microbial metabolism of C1 compounds from natural and industrial sources.
BACKGROUND:Methylotrophy describes the ability of organisms to grow on reduced organic compounds without carbon-carbon bonds.The genomes of two pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophic bacteria of the Alpha-proteobacterial southwestern aztec rug genus Methylobacterium, the reference species Methylobacterium extorquens strain AM1 and the dichlorome