Name: Methanofollis fontis FWC-SCC2
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 160432

Type strain:

Species: Methanofollis fontis

Strain Designation: FWC-SCC2

Culture col. no.: DSM 107935, NBRC 113164, BCRC AR10052

Strain history: <- M.-C. Lai, National Chung Hsing Univ., Dept. of Life Scs., Taiwan; FWC-SCC2 <- S.-C. Chen {2017}

NCBI tax ID(s): 2052832 (species)

SI-ID 401640

DSM 107935

Section

Methanofollis fontis FWC-SCC2 is an anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative archaeon that was isolated from Sub-seafloor sediment from Four Way Closure Ridge offshore southwestern Taiwan.

Gram-negative
anaerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Archaea
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	"Methanomicrobia"
	Order	*Methanomicrobiales*
	Family	*Methanomicrobiaceae*
	Genus	*Methanofollis*
	Species	**Methanofollis fontis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanofollis fontis Chen et al. 2020

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.989

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

METHANOCALCULUS MB MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 924)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #67340]			growth	37 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe Confidence in %99.717

[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %99.948
[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %98

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

[Ref.: #67340]	Sample type/isolated from	Sub-seafloor sediment from Four Way Closure Ridge offshore southwestern Taiwan
[Ref.: #67340]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Four Way Closure Ridge offshore southwestern Taiwan, ROC
[Ref.: #67340]	Country	China
[Ref.: #67340]	Country ISO 3 Code	CHN
[Ref.: #67340]	Continent	Asia
* marker position based on {}

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.: #67340]	Methanofollis sp. strain FWC-SCC2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MG437305	1397	ENA	2052832 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanofollis fontis FWC-SCC2	GCA_004297185	contig	GenBank	2052832 tax ID	*

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GC-content

59.5 mol%

sequence analysis

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Methanofollis fontis FWC-SCC2 NCBI: GCA_004297185.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	98	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Methanofollis fontis FWC-SCC2 NCBI: GCA_004297185.1
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	98.445	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	95.741	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	99.37	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	96.741	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	81.926	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	96.55	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	72.388	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	90.019	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	93.458	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	63.615	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 107935, NBRC 113164, BCRC AR10052

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SI-ID 401640

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanofollis fontis sp. nov., a methanogen isolated from marine sediment near a cold seep at Four-Way Closure Ridge offshore southwestern Taiwan.	Chen SC, Teng NH, Lin YS, Lai MC, Chen HH, Wang CC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.004440	2020	*

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 )

#66792

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 107935

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

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Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#112679

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID401640.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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