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Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 10 1995, 3549-3555, Vol 61, No. 10
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Heat-tolerant methanotrophic bacteria from the hot water effluent of a natural gas field

L Bodrossy, JC Murrell, H Dalton, M Kalman, LG Puskas and KL Kovacs
Institute of Biophysics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary.

Methanotrophic bacteria were isolated from a natural environment potentially favorable to heat-tolerant methanotrophs. An improved colony plate assay was developed and used to identify putative methanotrophic colonies with high confidence. Fourteen new isolates were purified and partially characterized. These new isolates exhibit a DNA sequence homology of up to 97% with the conserved regions in the mmoX and mmoC genes of the soluble methane monooxygenase (MMO)-coding gene cluster of Methylococcus capsulatus Bath. The copper regulation of soluble MMO expression in the same isolates, however, differs from that of M. capsulatus Bath, as the new isolates can tolerate up to 0.8 microM copper without loss of MMO activity while a drastic reduction of MMO activity occurs already at 0.1 microM copper in M. capsulatus Bath. The isolates can be cultivated and utilized at elevated temperatures, and their copper- and heat-tolerant MMO activity makes these bacteria ideal candidates for future biotechnological use.

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