Name: Methanobacterium formicicum MF
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6924

Type strain:

Species: Methanobacterium formicicum

Strain Designation: MF

Culture col. no.: DSM 1535, ATCC 33274, JCM 10132, OCM 55, NBIMCC 876, NBRC 100475, VKM B-1957

Strain history: DSM 1535 <-- R. S. Wolfe and W. E. Balch <-- M. P. Bryant MF.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1300163 (strain), 2162 (species)

SI-ID 44946

ATCC 33274, DSM 1535, JCM 10132, VKM B-1957, NBIMCC 876, NBRC 100475

Other strains from Methanobacterium formicicum

M. formicicum DSM 1312
M. formicicum JF-1, DSM 2639, OCM 105
M. formicicum Z-281, DSM 3722
M. formicicum MS1, DSM 3636
M. formicicum PP1, DSM 3637
M. formicicum T1N, DSM 6298
M. formicicum RF, DSM 6299
M. formicicum FCam, DSM 10111
M. formicicum TiaH2, DSM 11049
M. formicicum FSol 1, DSM 11051

Section

Methanobacterium formicicum MF is an anaerobe, mesophilic archaeon that was isolated from anaerobic sewage sludge digester.

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	*Methanobacteria*
	Order	*Methanobacteriales*
	Family	*Methanobacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Methanobacterium*
	Species	**Methanobacterium formicicum**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanobacterium formicicum Schnellen 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MODIFIED METHANOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1523)

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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

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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

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #812]			growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	37 °C

[Ref.: #812]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	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.: #812]	Sample type/isolated from	anaerobic sewage sludge digester
[Ref.: #812]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Illinois, Urbana
[Ref.: #812]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #812]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #812]	Continent	North America

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Sewage sludge digestor
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Urbana, IL
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	North America
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Biodegradation	#Anaerobic digestor
#Engineered	#Waste	#Sewage sludge
#Condition	#Anoxic (anaerobic)	-

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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.: #812]	Methanobacterium formicicum DSMZ1535 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AF169245	1376	ENA	2162 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Enterococcus faecalis clone OCM055 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	GU417238	447	ENA	1351 tax ID	*

Genome sequence information:

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	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanobacterium formicicum JCM 10132	GCA_001316325	contig	GenBank	1300163 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanobacterium formicicum JCM 10132	2681813006	draft	JGI IMG/M	1300163 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanobacterium formicicum DSM 1535	2645727909	complete	JGI IMG/M	2162 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanobacterium formicicum strain DSM 1535	2162.9	complete	PATRIC	2162 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanobacterium formicicum JCM 10132	1300163.3	wgs	PATRIC	1300163 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanobacterium formicicum MF	GCA_029848115	contig	GenBank	2162 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #812]	GC-content	40.7 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	40.7 mol%	Buoyant density centrifugation (BD)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 1535, ATCC 33274, JCM 10132, OCM 55, NBIMCC 876, NBRC 100475, VKM B-1957

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SI-ID 44946

Literature:

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Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Comparative genomic analysis reveals starvation survival systems in Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus DeltaH.	Prathiviraj R, Chellapandi P	Anaerobe	10.1016/j.anaerobe.2020.102216	2020	*
Genetics	Complete genome sequence of the methanogenic neotype strain Methanobacterium formicicum MF(T.).	Maus I, Stantscheff R, Wibberg D, Stolze Y, Winkler A, Puhler A, Konig H, Schluter A	J Biotechnol	10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.09.018	2014	*
Phylogeny	Aminivibrio pyruvatiphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, amino-acid-degrading bacterium from soil of a Japanese rice field.	Honda T, Fujita T, Tonouchi A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.052225-0	2013	*
Phylogeny	Methanobacterium kanagiense sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen, isolated from rice-field soil.	Kitamura K, Fujita T, Akada S, Tonouchi A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.026013-0	2010	*
Phylogeny	Syntrophomonas zehnderi sp. nov., an anaerobe that degrades long-chain fatty acids in co-culture with Methanobacterium formicicum.	Sousa DZ, Smidt H, Alves MM, Stams AJM	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64734-0	2007	*
Phylogeny	Syntrophomonas wolfei subsp. methylbutyratica subsp. nov., and assignment of Syntrophomonas wolfei subsp. saponavida to Syntrophomonas saponavida sp. nov. comb. nov.	Wu C, Dong X, Liu X	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2006.12.001	2007	*
Phylogeny	Syntrophomonas cellicola sp. nov., a spore-forming syntrophic bacterium isolated from a distilled-spirit-fermenting cellar, and assignment of Syntrophospora bryantii to Syntrophomonas bryantii comb. nov.	Wu C, Liu X, Dong X	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64377-0	2006	*

References

#812	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 1535

#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 )

#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) .

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#76388

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-ID44946.1 )

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