A Review of the Book Aerobnye metilobakterii (Aerobic Methylobacteria) by Yu.A. Trotsenko, N.V. Doronina, and M.L. Torgonskaya (Pushchino: ONTI PNC RAN, 2010)

摘要

This book is the first Russian monograph summarizing our knowledge on aerobic methylotrophic bacteria, a metabolically unique group of prokaryotic microorganisms utilizing various oxidized and substituted methane derivatives as carbon and energy sources. This is an ambitious project, since methylotrophic metabolism is widespread among microorganisms. Unlike methanotrophic bacteria, which are highly specialized methane utilizers, methylotrophic prokaryotes utilize a broad spectrum of C_1 substrates (up to 50 compounds of different degrees of reduction). While the metabolic and phylogenetic diversity of the known methylotrophic prokaryotes is considerable, it is only a part of their diversity in nature.