Gene database of Methylorubrum extorquens strain TK 0001

Formerly known as Methylobacterium
extorquens, Methylorubrum extorquens is a methylotrophic bacterium
capable of a versatile lifestyle. Able to use acetate, succinate and methanol
as carbon sources, the bacterium offers a platform for producing useful products
from unconventional substrate in metabolic engineering. This work sought to
provide fundamental information about the genetic repertoire of M.
extorquens TK0001 through parsing the annotated genome sequence of the
bacterium downloaded from Genbank. The resulting gene database comprises gene
name, gene function, and gene sequence, and should inform molecular cloning
work for deploying interesting genes from M. extorquens in established
biotechnology chassis such as Escherichia coli to overcome challenges
with the use of M. extorquens in biotechnology.