Methanobacterium thermautotrophicum (DSM 1910, JW510)

Name: Methanobacterium thermautotrophicum (DSM 1910, JW510)
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BacDive ID 6885

Type strain

Strain Designation JW510

Culture col. no. DSM 1910 JW510

NCBI tax ID(s) 145262

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- J. Wiegel, JW510

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Methanobacterium thermautotrophicum JW510 is an anaerobe archaeon of the family Methanobacteriaceae.

anaerobe 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47510

DSM 1910

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:20

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanobacteria

Order Methanobacteriales

Family Methanobacteriaceae

Genus Methanobacterium

Species Methanobacterium thermautotrophicum

Full scientific name Methanobacterium thermautotrophicum corrig. Zeikus and Wolfe 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (6)

Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum
Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus
Methanobacterium thermalcaliphilum
Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicus
Methanobacterium thermoalcaliphilum
Methanobacterium thermoformicicum

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
923	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)
923	positive	growth	60

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

923

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
923	Wyoming, Yellowstone Natl. Park	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
923	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus culture DSM:1910 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JQ346751	1271		145262

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#923	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1910
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#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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