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. 2013 Sep 5;4:268. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00268

Table 2.

List of methanol-utilizing methylotophs that are not included in a previous survey (Kolb, 2009a).

Class/phylum Isolation source fac pH Reference
Actinobacteria
Micrococcus luteus MM7 Oral Cavity + nn Anesti et al. (2005)
Bacilli
Bacillus vallismortis JY3A Soil + N Ling et al. (2011)
Alphaproteobacteria
Ancylobacter dichloromethanicus DM16T Soil + N Firsova et al. (2009)
Ancylobacter oerskovii NS05 Soil + N Lang et al. (2008)
Ancylobacter polymorphus DSM 2457 Soil + N Xin et al. (2006)
Ancylobacter rudongensis JCM 1167 Rhizosphere + N Xin et al. (2004)
Ancylobacter vacuolatus DSM 1277 Soil + N Xin et al. (2006)
Methylobacterium bullatum B3.2 Phyllosphere + N Hoppe et al. (2011)
Methylobacterium cerastii C15 Phyllosphere + Act Wellner et al. (2012)
Methylobacterium gnaphalii AB627071 Phyllosphere + nn Tani et al. (2012a)
Methylobacterium goesingense AY364020 Rhizosphere + N Idris et al. (2006)
Methylobacterium gossipiicola Gh-105 Phyllosphere + N Madhaiyan et al. (2012)
Methylobacterium longum DSM 23933 Phyllosphere + N Knief etal. (2012a, b)
Methylobacterium marchantiae DSM 21328 Phyllosphere + N Schauer et al. (2011)
Methylobacterium oxalidis DSM 24028 Phyllosphere + N Tani et al. (2012b)
Methylobacterium phyllosphaera BMB27 Phyllosphere + N Madhaiyan et al. (2009a)
Methylocapsa aurea DSM 22158 Soil + Act Dunfield et al. (2010)
Methyloferula stellata AR4 Soil - Ac Vorobev et al. (2011)
Methlyopila jiangsuensis DSM 22718 Activated sludge + N Li et al. (2011)
Starkeya koreensis Jip08 Phyllosphere + N Im et al. (2006)
Starkeya novella IAM 12100 Phyllosphere + N Im et al. (2006)
Betaproteobacteria
Methylobacillus arboreus VKM B-2590 Phyllosphere + N Gogleva et al. (2011)
Methylobacillus gramineus VKM B-2591 Phyllosphere + N Gogleva et al. (2011)
Methylopila musalis MUSAT Banana + N Doronina et al. (2013)
Methylophilus rhizosphaerae BMB147 Rhizosphere + N Madhaiyan et al. (2009b)
Methylophilus glucosoxydans B Rhizosphere + N Doronina et al. (2012)
Methylophilus flavus DSM 23073 Phyllosphere - N Gogleva et al. (2010)
Methylophilus luteus DSM 2949 Phyllosphere + N Gogleva et al. (2010)
Methylotenera versatilis JCM 17579 Sediment + N Kalyuzhnaya et al. (2012)
Methylovorus menthalis DSM 24715 Rhizosphere - Al Doronina et al. (2011)
Variovorax paradoxus 5KTg Oral Cavity + nn Anesti et al. (2005)
Gammaproteobacteria
Methylomonas koyamae MG30 Water of rice paddy - Act Ogiso et al. (2012)
Methylomonas scandinavica SR5 Groundwater - N Kalyuzhnaya et al. (1999)
Methylomonas paludis MG30 Torfmoor - Act Danilova et al. (2013)
Methylothermus subterraneus DSM 19750 Aquifer - Act Hirayama et al. (2011)
Methylophaga lonarensis MPL Sediment - Al Antony et al. (2012b)
Methylophaga sulfidovorans RB-1 Sediment - N de Zwart et al. (1996)
Methylophaga thiooxydans DSMO10 Marine waters + nn Boden et al. (2010)

fac, facultative methylotrophic; +, growth in substrates with carbon –carbon bonds; -, no growth in substrates with carbon –carbon bonds; nn, no information in species description; enrichment at pH 7; N, neutrophile (growth optimum between pH 6.5 and 8.0); Act, acid tolerant (growth optimum between pH 3.0 und 6.5); Ac, acidiphilic (growth optimum below pH 3); Al, alcaliphilic (growth optimum over pH 8).