Draft genome sequence of Methylovulum psychrotolerans Sph1T, an obligate methanotroph from low-temperature environments

Abstract

Methylovulum psychrotolerans Sph1T is an aerobic, obligate methanotroph, which was isolated from cold methane seeps in West Siberia. This bacterium possesses only a particulate methane monooxygenase and is widely distributed in low-temperature environments. Strain Sph1T has the genomic potential for biosynthesis of hopanoids required for the maintenance of intracytoplasmic membranes.