Methanosarcina mazei (VKM B-2370, JCM 31898)

Name: Methanosarcina mazei (VKM B-2370, JCM 31898)
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BacDive ID 164152

Type strain

Culture col. no. VKM B-2370 JCM 31898

NCBI tax ID(s) 2209

Special Collections JCM

History V. Shcherbakova; VKM, Russia; JL01.

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Methanosarcina mazei JCM 31898 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Holocene permafrost in the Russian Arctic.

mesophilic genome sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 369388

VKM B-2370

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:09:23

Domain Methanobacteriati

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanosarcinia

Order Methanosarcinales

Family Methanosarcinaceae

Genus Methanosarcina

Species Methanosarcina mazei

Full scientific name Methanosarcina mazei corrig. (Barker 1936) Mah and Kuhn 1984

Synonyms (4)

Methanosarcina frisia
Methanococcus frisius
Methanosarcina mazeii
Methanococcus mazei

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanosarcina mazei** (13)	Type strain
7096	M. mazei S-6, DSM 2053, ATCC 43572, OCM 26, DSM 108209 (type strain)
7097	M. mazei Z-558, DSM 2244, OCM 92
7098	M. mazei MC3, DSM 2907, OCM 192
7099	M. mazei C16, DSM 3318, ATCC 43340, OCM 98
7100	M. mazei G1, DSM 3338, OCM 87
7101	M. mazei Gö1, DSM 3647, ATCC BAA-159, JCM 11833, ...
7102	M. mazei DSM 4556, ATCC 43573, OCM 34
7103	M. mazei T18, DSM 6300
7104	M. mazei Equi, DSM 7058, OCM 61
7105	M. mazei Gö1, DSM 7222
7106	M. mazei TMA, DSM 9195, JCM 9314, NBRC 101201
7107	M. mazei SarPi, DSM 10132
24166	M. mazei O1M9701, DSM 27785, OCM 748

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
67770	positive	growth	25	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

67770

Sample typeHolocene permafrost in the Russian Arctic

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67770	ASM548500v1 assembly for Methanosarcina mazei JL01	chromosome	GCA_005485005	2209.144	2209	23.68

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	41.6	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	The Effects of Perchlorates on the Permafrost Methanogens: Implication for Autotrophic Life on Mars.	Shcherbakova V, Oshurkova V, Yoshimura Y.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms3030518	2015
Metabolism	Biogeochemistry of methane and methanogenic archaea in permafrost.	Rivkina E, Shcherbakova V, Laurinavichius K, Petrovskaya L, Krivushin K, Kraev G, Pecheritsina S, Gilichinsky D	FEMS Microbiol Ecol	10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00315.x	2007

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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Methanosarcina mazei (VKM B-2370, JCM 31898)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_005485005

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

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