Methylovorus menthalis (DSM 24715, CCUG 61695, VKM B-2663)

Name: Methylovorus menthalis (DSM 24715, CCUG 61695, VKM B-2663)
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BacDive ID 7246

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 24715 CCUG 61695 VKM B-2663

NCBI tax ID(s) 1002227

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG

History DSMZ <- N. V. Doronina, Inst. Biochem. Physiol. Microorg., RAS, Pushchino, Russia; VKM B-2663

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Methylovorus menthalis DSM 24715 is an aerobe bacterium that was isolated from rhizoplane of corn mint .

aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407229

VKM B-2663,DSM 24715,CCUG 61695

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:36

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Spirillales

Family Methylophilaceae

Genus Methylovorus

Species Methylovorus menthalis

Full scientific name Methylovorus menthalis Doronina et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	94.535

Colony morphology

17737

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17737	MEDIUM K (DSMZ Medium 1122)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MEDIUM K (DSMZ Medium 1122) Composition: Agar 20.0 g/l KH2PO4 2.0 g/l (NH4)2SO4 2.0 g/l NaCl 0.5 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.125 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.002 g/l Methanol Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17737	positive	growth	28
62694	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

62694

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.984

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Rhizoplane

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Sampling date
17737	rhizoplane of corn mint (Mentha arvensis L.)	Mentha arvensis	Moscow, Pushchino	Russia	RUS	Europe
62694	Root,Mentha arvensis		Moscow region,Pushchino	Russia	RUS	Europe	2009

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence HQ380796 (>99% sequence identity) for Methylovorus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	3002
Soil Samples	3399
Animal Samples	792
Plant Samples	2670
Total Samples	9863

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17737	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM2052362v1 assembly for Methylovorus menthalis VKM B-2663	scaffold	GCA_020523625	1002227.3	8063248373	1002227	74

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17737	Methylovorus menthalis strain MM 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	HQ380796	1415		1002227

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
17737	54.5	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM2052362v1 assembly for Methylovorus menthalis VKM B-2663
NCBI: GCA_020523625

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	87.39	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	94.54	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	63.21	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.98	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Microbial potential to mitigate neurotoxic methylmercury accumulation in farmlands and rice	Zhou X, Chen K, Yu R, Yang M, Liu Q, Hao Y, Li J, Liu H, Feng J, Tan W, Huang Q, Gu B, Liu Y.	Nat Commun		2025
	Prerequisites for amplicon pyrosequencing of microbial methanol utilizers in the environment.	Kolb S, Stacheter A.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2013.00268	2013
	Single-cell protein (SCP) meals from Methylovorus menthalis as feed ingredients for freshwater Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Digestibility, growth performance, nutrient utilization, and fish health	Tibbetts SM, Piercey MJ, Patelakis SJJ, Stratton B.	Aquaculture		2024
	Microbial potential to mitigate neurotoxic methylmercury accumulation in farmlands and rice.	Zhou XQ, Chen KH, Yu RQ, Yang M, Liu Q, Hao YY, Li J, Liu HW, Feng J, Tan W, Huang Q, Gu B, Liu YR.	Nat Commun	10.1038/s41467-025-60458-1	2025
Metabolism	Bacterial metabolism of methylated amines and identification of novel methylotrophs in Movile Cave.	Wischer D, Kumaresan D, Johnston A, El Khawand M, Stephenson J, Hillebrand-Voiculescu AM, Chen Y, Colin Murrell J.	ISME J	10.1038/ismej.2014.102	2015

References

#17737	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24715
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#62694	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 61695
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Methylovorus menthalis (DSM 24715, CCUG 61695, VKM B-2663)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_020523625

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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