Methanobacterium aarhusense (DSM 15219, ATCC BAA-828, NBRC 105225)

Name: Methanobacterium aarhusense (DSM 15219, ATCC BAA-828, NBRC 105225)
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BacDive ID 6948

Type strain

Strain Designation H2-LR

Culture col. no. DSM 15219 ATCC BAA-828 NBRC 105225 H2-LR

NCBI tax ID(s) 256826

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Methanobacterium aarhusense H2-LR is an anaerobe, thermophilic prokaryote that was isolated from marine sediment.

anaerobe thermophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132021

NBRC 105225,ATCC BAA-828,DSM 15219

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:48:27

Domain Methanobacteriati

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanobacteria

Order Methanobacteriales

Family Methanobacteriaceae

Genus Methanobacterium

Species Methanobacterium aarhusense

Full scientific name Methanobacterium aarhusense Shlimon et al. 2004

Morphology

Colony morphology

5763

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5763	METHANOGENIUM MEDIUM (H2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 141)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOGENIUM MEDIUM (H2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 141) Composition: NaHCO3 4.89237 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 3.91389 g/l Yeast extract 1.95695 g/l Trypticase peptone 1.95695 g/l Na-acetate 0.978474 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.489237 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.489237 g/l KCl 0.332681 g/l NH4Cl 0.244618 g/l K2HPO4 0.136986 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0293542 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0146771 g/l NaCl 0.00978474 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00489237 g/l Fe(NH4)2(SO4)2 x 6 H2O 0.00195695 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00176125 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00176125 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000978474 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.000978474 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000489237 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000293542 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000195695 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.78474e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.78474e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.78474e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.78474e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.89237e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.89237e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.89237e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.89237e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.95695e-05 g/l Biotin 1.95695e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.91389e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.93542e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.78474e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
5763	positive	growth	40	thermophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

5763

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
5763	marine sediment	Arhus Bay	Denmark	DNK	Europe	56.1556	10.3233 56.1556/10.3233

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY386124 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanobacterium aarhusense subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	227
Soil Samples	18
Animal Samples	13
Plant Samples	11
Total Samples	269

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5763	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
5763	Methanobacterium aarhusense 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY386124	1333		256826

GC content

5763

GC-content (mol%)34.9

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanobacterium aarhusense sp. nov., a novel methanogen isolated from a marine sediment (Aarhus Bay, Denmark).	Shlimon AG, Friedrich MW, Niemann H, Ramsing NB, Finster K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02994-0	2004

References

#5763	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15219
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Methanobacterium aarhusense (DSM 15219, ATCC BAA-828, NBRC 105225)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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