Microorganisms 2015, 3, 175-197; doi:10.3390/microorganisms3020175 OPEN ACCESS microorganisms ISSN 2076-2607 www.mdpi.com/journal/microorganisms Article C1-Pathways in Methyloversatilis universalis FAM5: Genome Wide Gene Expression and Mutagenesis Studies Nathan M. Good 1,†, Andrew Lamb 1,2,‡, David A. C. Beck 2,3, N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez 2,† and Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya 1,4,* 1 Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA; E-Mails:
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[email protected] (N.C.M.G.) 3 eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1570, USA 4 Biology Department, San Diego State University, North Life Science Room 401, San Diego, CA 92182-4614, USA † Current address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, 6198 Biomedical Physical Sciences. East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. ‡ Current address: College of Science, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail:
[email protected]; Tel.: +1-619-594-5626. Academic Editor: Ludmila Chistoserdova Received: 5 January 2015 / Accepted: 26 March 2015 / Published: 9 April 2015 Abstract: Methyloversatilis universalis FAM5 utilizes single carbon compounds such as methanol or methylamine as a sole source of carbon and energy. Expression profiling reveals distinct sets of genes altered during growth on methylamine vs methanol. As expected, all genes for the N-methylglutamate pathway were induced during growth on methylamine.