Name: Methanohalophilus levihalophilus GTA13
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 24163

Type strain:

Species: Methanohalophilus levihalophilus

Strain Designation: GTA13

Culture col. no.: DSM 28452, NBRC 110099

Strain history: <- T. Katayama, Natl. Inst. Advanced Industrial Sci. and Technol., Tsukuba, Japan; GTA13 <- T. Katayama {2013}

NCBI tax ID(s): 1431282 (species)

SI-ID 398713

DSM 28452

Section

Methanohalophilus levihalophilus GTA13 is an anaerobe, mesophilic archaeon that was isolated from deep aquifers filled with paleo-seawater in natural gas field.

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	*Methanosarcinales*
	Family	*Methanosarcinaceae*
	Genus	*Methanohalophilus*
	Species	**Methanohalophilus levihalophilus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanohalophilus levihalophilus Katayama et al. 2014

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

METHANOCOCCOIDES MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 141c)

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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.: #21018]			growth	35 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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

[Ref.: #21018]	Sample type/isolated from	deep aquifers filled with paleo-seawater in natural gas field
[Ref.: #21018]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Chiba Prefecture, Kujukuri Town, Minami-Kanto gas field
[Ref.: #21018]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #21018]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #21018]	Continent	Asia
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Groundwater
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AB889605 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanohalophilus levihalophilus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	6
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	6

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

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.: #21018]	Methanohalophilus levihalophilus gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB889605	1369	ENA	1431282 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanohalophilus levihalophilus DSM 28452	GCA_017874375	contig	GenBank	1431282 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanohalophilus levihalophilus DSM 28452	2913510308	draft	JGI IMG/M	1431282 tax ID	*

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GC-content

43.7 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 28452, NBRC 110099

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SI-ID 398713

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanohalophilus levihalophilus sp. nov., a slightly halophilic, methylotrophic methanogen isolated from natural gas-bearing deep aquifers, and emended description of the genus Methanohalophilus.	Katayama T, Yoshioka H, Mochimaru H, Meng XY, Muramoto Y, Usami J, Ikeda H, Kamagata Y, Sakata S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.063677-0	2014	*

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 )

#21018

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 28452

#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) .

#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 .

#88119

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-ID398713.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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