Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus (DSM 3267, ATCC 43169, AC60)

Name: Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus (DSM 3267, ATCC 43169, AC60)
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BacDive ID 6887

Type strain

Strain Designation AC60

Culture col. no. DSM 3267 ATCC 43169 AC60

NCBI tax ID(s) 145262

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- K.-H. Blotevogel, Univ. Oldenburg, Germany; AC60 (Methanobacterium thermoalcaliphilum) <- K.-H. Blotevogel; {1984}

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

anaerobe Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 41688

ATCC 43169,DSM 3267,VKM B-1958

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:31

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanobacteria

Order Methanobacteriales

Family Methanobacteriaceae

Genus Methanothermobacter

Species Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus

Full scientific name Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus corrig. (Zeikus and Wolfe 1972) Wasserfallen et al. 2000

Synonyms (6)

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

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus** (11)	Type strain
6882	M. thermautotrophicus Delta H, DeltaH, DSM 1053, ATCC 29096, JCM ... (type strain)
6883	M. thermautotrophicus JW501, DSM 2036
6884	M. thermautotrophicus YTB, DSM 1850
6885	M. thermautotrophicus JW510, DSM 1910
6886	M. thermautotrophicus FTF, DSM 3012
6888	M. thermautotrophicus Z-245, DSM 3720
6889	M. thermautotrophicus Hveragerdi, DSM 3590
6890	M. thermautotrophicus DSM 3848
6891	M. thermautotrophicus SF-4, DSM 6457
6892	M. thermautotrophicus HMT-1, DSM 7077, MCM B 601
6893	M. thermautotrophicus ZH3, DSM 9446

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1336	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)
1336	positive	growth	60

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1336

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Plant (Factory)
#Engineered	#Waste	#Solid animal waste
#Engineered	#Waste	#Solid plant waste

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1336	biogas plant	Paderborn	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Methanobacterium thermalcaliphilum DSM 3267	complete	2861686208	145262	98.23

GC content

1336

GC-content (mol%)38.8

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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) .
#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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