Methanobacterium movilense (DSM 26032, JCM 18470, MC-20)

Name: Methanobacterium movilense (DSM 26032, JCM 18470, MC-20)
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Type strain

Strain Designation MC-20

Culture col. no. DSM 26032 JCM 18470 MC-20

NCBI tax ID(s) 1036678

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- D. Wagner, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Res. Centre for Geosciences, Germany; MC-20 <- D. Wagner {2004} JCM <-- D. Wagner MC-20.

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Methanobacterium movilense MC-20 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from anaerobic sediment a of subsurface lake.

anaerobe 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398850

JCM 18470,DSM 26032

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:30:34

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanobacteria

Order Methanobacteriales

Family Methanobacteriaceae

Genus Methanobacterium

Species Methanobacterium movilense

Full scientific name Methanobacterium movilense Schirmack et al. 2014

Morphology

Colony morphology

21009

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21009	METHANOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 119)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 119) Composition: NaHCO3 3.98804 g/l Na-formate 1.99402 g/l Na-acetate 0.997009 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.498504 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.498504 g/l KH2PO4 0.498504 g/l NH4Cl 0.398804 g/l NaCl 0.398804 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.398804 g/l Yeast extract 0.199402 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0498504 g/l HCl 0.00249252 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00199402 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149551 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000498504 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189432 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.97009e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.97906e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.58923e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.39282e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.98205e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99402e-06 g/l Isobutyric acid DL-2-Methylbutyric acid Valeric acid Isovaleric acid H2SO4 Sludge Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
21009	positive	growth	30
67770	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

21009

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
21009	anaerobic sediment a of subsurface lake	Mangalia, Movile cave	Romania	ROU	Europe	43.8167	28.55 43.8167/28.55
67770	Anoxic sediment of a subsurface lake in Movile Cave	Mangalia	Romania	ROU	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JF812256 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanobacterium movilense subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	54
Soil Samples	69
Animal Samples	10
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	134

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
21009	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21009	Methanobacterium movilense strain MC-20 from Romania 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF812256	1347		1036678

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
21009	33.0	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
67770	33	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanobacterium movilense sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic, secondary-alcohol-utilizing methanogen from the anoxic sediment of a subsurface lake.	Schirmack J, Mangelsdorf K, Ganzert L, Sand W, Hillebrand-Voiculescu A, Wagner D	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.057224-0	2013

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 )
#21009	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 26032
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#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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Methanobacterium movilense (DSM 26032, JCM 18470, MC-20)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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