Methylomarinovum tepidoasis sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic methanotroph of the family Methylothermaceae isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field
Journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Year: 2024

A novel aerobic methanotrophic bacterium, designated as strain IN45<sup>T</sup>, was isolated from <i>in situ</i> colonisation systems deployed at the Iheya North deep-sea hydrothermal field in the mid-Okinawa Trough. IN45<sup>T</sup> was a moderately thermophilic obligate methanotroph that grew only on methane or methanol at temperatures between 25 and 56 °C (optimum 45-50 °C). It was an oval-shaped, Gram-reaction-negative, motile bacterium with a single polar flagellum and an intracytoplasmic