Methylomicrobium buryatense variant with improved genetic tractability sequencing. Methylotuvimicrobium buryatense strain:5GB1S

M. buryatense is a haloalkaliphilic methanotroph that grows robustly in pure culture with a 3 hour doubling time. These favorable growth characteristics make this strain a promising model organism for studying aerobic methanotroph physiology as well as a potential platform for industrial biocatalysis of methane, the principle component of natural gas. This is the genome sequence of a selected variant capable of replicating small IncP-based broad host range plasmids.