Methylotropic bacteria

Methylotropic bacteria (for example Methylomonas methardca) will hydroxylate aromatics when methane or the like is also provided as a carbon source, and as in the case of aliphatic hydrocarbons further developments are likely as new strains of these bacteria are isolated. 

Two amicyanins from the methylotropic bacteria Pseudomonas AMI and T. versutus have been a recent focus of attention (42, 43). Their function is to mediate electron transfer between bacterial cytochrome c and methylamine dehydrogenase in a relatively short electron transport chain. 

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