Name: Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus AC60
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6887

Type strain:

Species: Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus

Strain Designation: AC60

Culture col. no.: DSM 3267, ATCC 43169

Strain history: <- K.-H. Blotevogel, Univ. Oldenburg, Germany; AC60 (Methanobacterium thermoalcaliphilum) <- K.-H. Blotevogel {1984}

NCBI tax ID(s): 1884223 (species)

SI-ID 41688

ATCC 43169, DSM 3267, VKM B-1958

Other strains from Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus

M. thermautotrophicus Delta H, DeltaH, DSM 1053, ATCC ... (type strain)
M. thermautotrophicus JW501, DSM 2036
M. thermautotrophicus YTB, DSM 1850
M. thermautotrophicus JW510, DSM 1910
M. thermautotrophicus FTF, DSM 3012
M. thermautotrophicus Z-245, DSM 3720
M. thermautotrophicus Hveragerdi, DSM 3590
M. thermautotrophicus DSM 3848
M. thermautotrophicus SF-4, DSM 6457
M. thermautotrophicus HMT-1, DSM 7077, MCM B 601
M. thermautotrophicus ZH3, DSM 9446

Section

Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus AC60 is an anaerobe, thermophilic archaeon that was isolated from biogas plant.

anaerobe
thermophilic
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	*Methanobacteria*
	Order	*Methanobacteriales*
	Family	*Methanobacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Methanothermobacter*
	Species	**Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus corrig. (Zeikus and Wolfe 1972) Wasserfallen et al. 2000

	Synonym	Methanobacterium thermautotrophicum
	Synonym	Methanobacterium thermalcaliphilum
	Synonym	Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicus
	Synonym	Methanobacterium thermoalcaliphilum
	Synonym	Methanobacterium thermoformicicum
	Synonym	Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #1336]

Culture medium

METHANOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 119)

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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.: #1336]			growth	60 °C

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Temperature range

thermophilic

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.: #1336]	Sample type/isolated from	biogas plant
[Ref.: #1336]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Paderborn
[Ref.: #1336]	Country	Germany
[Ref.: #1336]	Country ISO 3 Code	DEU
[Ref.: #1336]	Continent	Europe
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Industrial	#Plant (Factory)
#Engineered	#Waste	#Solid animal waste
#Engineered	#Waste	#Solid plant waste

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Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanobacterium thermalcaliphilum DSM 3267	2861686208	draft	JGI IMG/M	145262 tax ID	*

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GC-content

38.8 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 3267, ATCC 43169

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SI-ID 41688

References

#1336

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3267

#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) .

#76351

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-ID41688.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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