Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii (DSM 11978, PG)

Name: Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii (DSM 11978, PG)
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BacDive ID 6968

Type strain

Strain Designation PG

Culture col. no. DSM 11978 PG

NCBI tax ID(s) 190974

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- T. L. Miller, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; PG (Methanobrevibacter sp.) <- T. L. Miller {1983}

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Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii PG is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from pig faeces.

anaerobe genome sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49213

DSM 11978

@ref 20215

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

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanobacteria

Order Methanobacteriales

Family Methanobacteriaceae

Genus Methanobrevibacter

Species Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii

Full scientific name Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii Miller and Lin 2002

Synonyms (1)

"Methanocatella gottschalkii"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii** (1)	Type strain
6973	M. gottschalkii HO, DSM 11977, OCM 813 (type strain)

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	99.2

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4566	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
4566	MODIFIED METHANOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1523)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MODIFIED METHANOBACTERIUM MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1523) Composition: Brain heart infusion 5.98802 g/l Proteose peptone 5.98802 g/l NaHCO3 3.99202 g/l Yeast extract 1.99601 g/l Na-formate 1.99601 g/l Na-acetate 0.998004 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.499002 g/l KH2PO4 0.499002 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.499002 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.399202 g/l NH4Cl 0.399202 g/l NaCl 0.399202 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.0499002 g/l HCl 0.00249501 g/l FeCl2 x 4 H2O 0.00149701 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000499002 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 0.000299401 g/l Thiamine-HCl x 2 H2O 0.000199601 g/l Nicotinic acid 0.000199601 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000189621 g/l Calcium pantothenate 9.98004e-05 g/l Vitamin B12 9.98004e-05 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 9.98004e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 7.98403e-05 g/l ZnCl2 6.98603e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.59281e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.39521e-05 g/l D-(+)-biotin 1.99601e-05 g/l H3BO3 5.98802e-06 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 1.99601e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4566	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

4566

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Suidae (Pig,Swine)
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4566	pig faeces	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4566	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	IMG-taxon 2654588138 annotated assembly for Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii DSM 11978	contig	GCA_900109595	190974.3	2654588138	190974	73.09

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4566	28.5	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
4566	30.3	sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii DSM 11978
NCBI: GCA_900109595

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.10	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	66.30	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.20	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	83.40	no

Literature

Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Evolving understanding of rumen methanogen ecophysiology.	Khairunisa BH, Heryakusuma C, Ike K, Mukhopadhyay B, Susanti D.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1296008	2023

References

#4566	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11978
#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) .
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii (DSM 11978, PG)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900109595

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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