Methylobacterium radiotolerans

Methylobacterium radiotolerans is a radiation-tolerating Gram-negative bacterium.^[1] It has been shown that it can use lanthanide as a cofactor to increase its methanol dehydrogenase activity^[2][3]

Methylobacterium radiotolerans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Methylobacteriaceae
Genus:	Methylobacterium
Species:	M. radiotolerans
Binomial name
Methylobacterium radiotolerans corrig. (Ito and Iizuka 1971) Green and Bousfield 1983
Synonyms
Pseudomonas radiora Ito and Iizuka 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) Methylobacterium radiora (Ito and Iizuka 1971) Green and Bousfield 1983

See also

• Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum
• Methylorubrum extorquens