Methanobacterium ferruginis (DSM 21974, NBRC 105197, Mic6c05)

Name: Methanobacterium ferruginis (DSM 21974, NBRC 105197, Mic6c05)
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BacDive ID 6951

Type strain

Strain Designation Mic6c05

Culture col. no. DSM 21974 NBRC 105197 Mic6c05

NCBI tax ID(s) 710191

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History <- K. Mori, NITE-NBRC; NBRC 105197 <- K. Mori; Mic6c05 {2006}

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Methanobacterium ferruginis Mic6c05 is an anaerobe, Gram-variable, rod-shaped archaeon that was isolated from iron-corrosive tubercle on an interior pipe transporting natural-gas-containing brine.

Gram-variable rod-shaped anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 397101

NBRC 105197,DSM 21974

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:21

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanobacteria

Order Methanobacteriales

Family Methanobacteriaceae

Genus Methanobacterium

Species Methanobacterium ferruginis

Full scientific name Methanobacterium ferruginis Mori and Harayama 2011

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29854	variable	3 µm	0.3 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

16070

Incubation period3-7 days

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16070	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)
16070	positive	growth	37
29854	positive	growth	20-45
29854	positive	optimum	40

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
29854	positive	optimum	7
29854	positive	growth	5.5-9.0	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
16070	anaerobe
29854	anaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29854	NaCl	positive	growth	0-6.96 %
29854	NaCl	positive	optimum	1.972 %

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Industrial	#Engineered product
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
16070	iron-corrosive tubercle on an interior pipe transporting natural-gas-containing brine	Chiba prefecture, southern Kanto gas field	Japan	JPN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16070	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3029671v1 assembly for Methanobacterium ferruginis NBRC 105197	complete	GCA_030296715	8046356531	710191	81.83

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16070	Methanobacterium ferruginis gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB542743	1412		710191

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
16070	37.6	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
29854	37.6

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanobacterium petrolearium sp. nov. and Methanobacterium ferruginis sp. nov., mesophilic methanogens isolated from salty environments.	Mori K, Harayama S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.022723-0	2010

References

#16070	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21974
#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 )
#26228	IJSEM 138 2011 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.022723-0 , PubMed 20173004 )
#29854	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26228
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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 ferruginis (DSM 21974, NBRC 105197, Mic6c05)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_030296715

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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