Name: Methylothermus thermalis IPODFERMP-19714
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 134143

Type strain:

Species: Methylothermus thermalis

Strain Designation: IPODFERMP-19714, MYH

Culture col. no.: VKM B-2345

NCBI tax ID(s): 317575 (species)

Section

Methylothermus thermalis IPODFERMP-19714 is a Gram-negative, coccus-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from hot spring.

coccus-shaped
Gram-negative
16S sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Genus	"Methylothermus"
	Species	"Methylothermus thermalis"
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methylothermus thermalis Tsubota et al. 2005

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #31500]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #31500]	Cell length	0.7 µm

[Ref.: #31500]	Cell width	0.7 µm

[Ref.: #31500]	Cell shape	coccus-shaped

[Ref.: #31500]	Motility	no

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Pigment production

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #31500]			growth	37-67 °C
[Ref.: #31500]			optimum	58 °C

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Temperature range

thermophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #31500]			optimum	7.8
[Ref.: #31500]			growth	6.5-7.5

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #31500]

Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #31500]		NaCl		growth	0-3	%
[Ref.: #31500]		NaCl		optimum	0.75	%

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Observation

aggregates in clumps

	Metabolite utilization	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #31500]		D-tryptophan ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #31500]		urea ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #31500]		methane ChEBI	yes

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #31500]	Sample type/isolated from	hot spring
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Thermal spring
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AY829009 (>99% sequence identity) for Methylothermus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	22
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples	3
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	27

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #31500]	Methylothermus thermalis strain MYHT 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY829009	1463	GenBank	317575 tax ID

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GC-content

62.5 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

VKM B-2345

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methylothermus thermalis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately thermophilic obligate methanotroph from a hot spring in Japan.	Tsubota J, Eshinimaev BT, Khmelenina VN, Trotsenko YA	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63691-0	2005	*
Phylogeny	On the nomenclatural types of Methylothermus thermalis Tsubota et al. 2005, Methylothermus Tsubota et al. 2005 and Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al. 2014, their status under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and valid publication of the names Methylothermus gen. nov., Methylothermus subterraneus Hirayama et al. and Methylothermaceae Hirayama et al.	Tindall BJ	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003220	2019	*

References

#20215

Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )

#31500

Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27798 (see below)

#69479

João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

#27798

IJSEM 1877 2005 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63691-0 , PubMed 16166682 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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