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Phyllospheric bacteria utilize a wide array of carbon sources generated by plant hosts. Glycine betaine (GB) is a plant-derived compound that can be metabolized by certain members of the phyllosphere microbiota. Metabolism of glycine betaine generates formaldehyde, an intermediate of methylotrophic metabolism, leading us to investigate how the ubiquitous plant colonizing bacterium\n              <jats:italic>Methylorubrum extorquens<\/jats:italic>\n              PA1 might metabolize GB encountered in its native environment.\n              <jats:italic>M. extorquens<\/jats:italic>\n              PA1 cannot utilize GB as a sole carbon source. Through suppressor mutation analysis, we show that\n              <jats:italic>M. extorquens<\/jats:italic>\n              PA1 encodes a conserved GB utilization pathway that can be activated by single point mutations conferring GB utilization as a carbon source. We identified the gene cluster encoding the GB catabolic enzymes and found that gene expression was induced in the presence of GB. We show that utilization of GB is conserved among representative\n              <jats:italic>Methylobacterium<\/jats:italic>\n              species and generates the one-carbon metabolism intermediate formaldehyde, which\n              <jats:italic>M. extorquens<\/jats:italic>\n              utilizes as a source of energy. Our results support a model where suppressor mutations in\n              <jats:italic>Mext_3745<\/jats:italic>\n              or\n              <jats:italic>ftsH<\/jats:italic>\n              (\n              <jats:italic>Mext_4840<\/jats:italic>\n              ) prevent the degradation of the dimethylglycine dehydrogenase subunit DgcB by the membrane integral protease FtsH, conferring the ability to utilize GB by either (i) restoring stable membrane topology of DgcB or (ii) decreasing FtsH protease activity, respectively. Both mutations alleviate the bottleneck at the second step of GB degradation catalyzed by DgcAB.\n            <\/jats:p>\n            <jats:sec>\n              <jats:title>IMPORTANCE<\/jats:title>\n              <jats:p>\n                Overcoming low nutrient availability is a challenge many bacteria encounter in the environment. Facultative methylotrophs are able to utilize one-carbon and multi-carbon compounds as carbon and energy sources. The utilization of plant-derived glycine betaine (GB) represents a possible source of multi-carbon and one-carbon substrates. The metabolism of glycine betaine produces formaldehyde and glycine, which may be used simultaneously by facultative methylotrophs. However, the genes required for the utilization of GB in the ubiquitous plant-associated bacterium\n                <jats:italic>Methylorubrum extorquens<\/jats:italic>\n                have yet to be identified or described. 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