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SUBMITTER: Watkins AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3911008 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Watkins Andrew J AJ Roussel Erwan G EG Parkes R John RJ Sass Henrik H
Applied and environmental microbiology 20131025 1
Nine marine methanogenic Methanococcoides strains, including the type strains of Methanococcoides methylutens, M. burtonii, and M. alaskense, were tested for the utilization of N-methylated glycines. Three strains (NM1, PM2, and MKM1) used glycine betaine (N,N,N-trimethylglycine) as a substrate for methanogenesis, partially demethylating it to N,N-dimethylglycine, whereas none of the strains used N,N-dimethylglycine or sarcosine (N-methylglycine). Growth rates and growth yields per mole of subst ...[more]