Methylorubrum extorquens

Methylorubrum extorquens
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Methylobacteriaceae
Genus: Methylorubrum
Species:
M. extorquens
Binomial name
Methylorubrum extorquens
(Urakami and Komagata 1984) Green and Ardley 2018
Synonyms
  • Bacillus extorquens Bassalik 1913
  • Vibrio extorquens (Bassalik 1913) Bhat and Barker 1948
  • Pseudomonas extorquens (Bassalik 1913) Krasil'nikov 1949
  • Flavobacterium extorquens (Bassalik 1913) Bassalik et al. 1960
  • Protomonas extorquens (ex Bassalik 1913) Urakami and Komagata 1984
  • Methylobacterium chloromethanicum McDonald et al. 2001
  • Methylobacterium dichloromethanicum Doronina et al. 2000
  • Methylobacterium extorquens (Urakami and Komagata 1984) Bousfield and Green 1985
  • Methylobacterium dichloromethanicum subsp. chloromethanicum (McDonald et al. 2001) Hördt et al. 2020

Methylorubrum extorquens is a Gram-negative bacterium. Methylorubrum species often appear pink, and are classified as pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs, or PPFMs. The wild type has been known to use both methane and multiple carbon compounds as energy sources. Specifically, M. extorquens has been observed to use primarily methanol and C1 compounds as substrates in their energy cycles. It has been also observed that use lanthanides as a cofactor to increase its methanol dehydrogenase activity

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