methylotrophn.
/mᵻˈθɪlə(ʊ)trəʊf/, /mᵻˈθʌɪlə(ʊ)trəʊf/, U.S. /ˈmɛθɪləˌtroʊf/ Microbiology.
A microorganism that is capable of growing upon reduced carbon compounds containing no carbon-carbon bonds, such as methanol, methane, and methylamine.
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intestinal flora1893
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methylotroph1972
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1972 Adv. Microbial Physiol. 7 121 As far as has been tested, all the methane-utilizers grow on methane, methanol and dimethyl ether, but on no other substrate. They appear to be obligate methylotrophs.
1974 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 120 955/1 Microorganisms are considered methylotrophs if they can grow non-autotrophically using carbon compounds containing one or more carbon atoms but no carbon-carbon bonds.
1979 Nature 30 Aug. 844/1 To characterise the cofactor, which was presumed to be a pterin, we devised a procedure for isolating this degradation product from intact bacteria using, as the best source, cell paste of the facultative methylotroph Pseudomonas TP1 grown on methanol.
1998 FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 166 1 Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 is a pink-pigmented facultative methylotroph which is widely used for analyzing pathways of C1 metabolism with biochemical and molecular biological techniques.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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