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Species code:	METCA
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Methylococcales; Methylococcaceae; Methylococcus (TaxID: 243233) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Obligate, Gram-negative methanotroph. Methanotrophs are responsible for the oxidation of biologically generated methane and therefore help reduce the amount of this greenhouse gas that is released to Earth's atmosphere. The conversion of methane to biomass by M. capsulatus has been exploited for large-scale commercial production of microbial proteins by fermentation.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: No Human pathogen: No Interaction: No Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins: 2 in 2 different sequences
Statistics:	Number of METCA entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 2925 (452 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 2473 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	Chromosome EMBL accession number AE017282 (circular; 3,304,561 bp) (download entry)
Reference(s):	[1] PubMed=15383840; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Ward N.L., Larsen O., Sakwa J., Bruseth L., Khouri H.M., Durkin A.S., Dimitrov G., Jiang L., Scanlan D., Kang K.H., Lewis M.R., Nelson K.E., Methe B.A., Wu M., Heidelberg J.F., Paulsen I.T., Fouts D.E., Ravel J., Tettelin H., Ren Q., Read T.D., DeBoy R.T., Seshadri R., Salzberg S.L., Jensen H.B., Birkeland N.K., Nelson W.C., Dodson R.J., Grindhaug S.H., Holt I.E., Eidhammer I., Jonasen I., Vanaken S., Utterback T.R., Feldblyum T.V., Fraser C.M., Lillehaug J.R., Eisen J.A. ; "Genomic insights into methanotrophy: the complete genome sequence of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)."; PLoS Biol. 2:1616-1628(2004).
Web links:	CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Methylococcus&GLspecies=capsulatus&GLstrain=Bath Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid243233%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Mcap_BATH JVCI CMR: http://cmr.jcvi.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=bmc PEDANT: http://pedant.gsf.de/pedant3htmlview/pedant3view?Method=analysis&Db=p3_p21_Met_capsu  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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