Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus (DSM 2462, JCM 9316, A2)

Name: Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus (DSM 2462, JCM 9316, A2)
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BacDive ID 6960

Type strain

Strain Designation A2

Culture col. no. DSM 2462 JCM 9316 A2

NCBI tax ID(s) 39441

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History DSMZ <- H. Morii and Y. Koga, A2 JCM <-- H. Morii and Y. Koga A2.

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Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus A2 is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from digested sewage sludge.

anaerobe 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47618

DSM 2462,JCM 9316

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:32

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanobacteria

Order Methanobacteriales

Family Methanobacteriaceae

Genus Methanobrevibacter

Species Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus

Full scientific name Methanobrevibacter arboriphilicus corrig. (Zeikus and Henning 1975) Balch and Wolfe 1981

Synonyms (5)

"Methanobinarius arboriphilicus"
Methanobacterium arboriphilicum
Methanobrevibacter arboriphilus
Methanobacterium arbophilicum
"Methanobinarius arboriphilus"

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1087	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)
1087	positive	growth	37
67770	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1087

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Waste	#Sewage sludge

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1087	digested sewage sludge	Japan	JPN	Asia
67770	Anaerobic sewage digester in Kitakyusyu	Japan	JPN	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1087	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
1087	Methanobrevibacter arboriphilus strain A2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY196662	1264		39441

GC content

1087

GC-content (mol%)29.6

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#1087	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 2462
#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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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