Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii (DSM 11977, OCM 813, HO)

Name: Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii (DSM 11977, OCM 813, HO)
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BacDive ID 6973

Type strain

Strain Designation HO

Culture col. no. DSM 11977 OCM 813 HO

NCBI tax ID(s) 1122229 190974

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- T. L. Miller, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; HO <- T. L. Miller; {1983}

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Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii HO is an anaerobe archaeon that was isolated from horse faeces.

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 49212

DSM 11977,ATCC BAA-1169

@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
6968	M. gottschalkii PG, DSM 11978

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	99.2

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4565	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
4565	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)
4565	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

4565

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		92.027
125439		99

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Equidae (Horse)
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
4565	horse faeces	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4565	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	Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii DSM 11977	complete			2622736425	190974	95.99
66792	ASM381483v1 assembly for Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii DSM 11977	scaffold	GCA_003814835	1122229.3	2786546169	1122229	76.47

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4565	Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii strain HO 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	U55238	1328		190974

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4565	29.2	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii DSM 11977
NCBI: GCA_003814835

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	81.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	99.20	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	57.10	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.00	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Methanobrevibacter gottschalkii DSM 11977 DSM 11977
NCBI: GCA_003814835.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	55.15	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	86.96	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	87.89	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	92.03	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	78.54	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	82.38	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Scientific opinion on the presence of viable cells in a feed additive consisting of lactic acid produced by Weizmannia coagulansDSM 32789 (Jungbunzlauer SA).	EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Bampidis V, Azimonti G, Bastos ML, Christensen H, Durjava M, Dusemund B, Kouba M, Lopez-Alonso M, Lopez Puente S, Marcon F, Mayo B, Pechova A, Petkova M, Ramos F, Sanz Y, Villa RE, Woutersen R, Prieto Maradona M, Anguita M, Pettenati E, Tarres-Call J.	EFSA J	10.2903/j.efsa.2023.7965	2023
	Evolving understanding of rumen methanogen ecophysiology.	Khairunisa BH, Heryakusuma C, Ike K, Mukhopadhyay B, Susanti D.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1296008	2023
Genetics	First Genome Sequence of the Microcolonial Black Fungus Saxispiralis lemnorum MUM 23.14: Insights into the Unique Genomic Traits of the Aeminiaceae Family.	Paiva DS, Fernandes L, Portugal A, Trovao J.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms12010104	2024
	Exploration of singular and synergistic effect of xylitol and erythritol on causative agents of dental caries.	Koljalg S, Smidt I, Chakrabarti A, Bosscher D, Mandar R.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-020-63153-x	2020
	Inhibition of Rumen Methanogens by a Novel Archaeal Lytic Enzyme Displayed on Tailored Bionanoparticles.	Altermann E, Schofield LR, Ronimus RS, Beatty AK, Reilly K.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2018.02378	2018
	Methane Production in Dairy Cows Correlates with Rumen Methanogenic and Bacterial Community Structure.	Danielsson R, Dicksved J, Sun L, Gonda H, Muller B, Schnurer A, Bertilsson J.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2017.00226	2017
	Safety and efficacy of a feed additive consisting of lactic acid produced by Weizmannia coagulans (synonym Bacillus coagulans) DSM 32789 for all animal species except for fish (Jungbunzlauer SA).	EFSA Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP), Azimonti G, Bampidis V, Bastos ML, Christensen H, Dusemund B, Fasmon Durjava M, Kouba M, Lopez-Alonso M, Lopez Puente S, Marcon F, Mayo B, Pechova A, Petkova M, Ramos F, Ramos F, Sanz Y, Villa RE, Woutersen R, Maradona MP, Anguita M, Galobart J, Pettenati E, Tarres-Call J.	EFSA J	10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7268	2022
Metabolism	Biochemical Characterisation of Phage Pseudomurein Endoisopeptidases PeiW and PeiP Using Synthetic Peptides.	Schofield LR, Beattie AK, Tootill CM, Dey D, Ronimus RS.	Archaea	10.1155/2015/828693	2015
Metabolism	Tracking heavy water (D2O) incorporation for identifying and sorting active microbial cells.	Berry D, Mader E, Lee TK, Woebken D, Wang Y, Zhu D, Palatinszky M, Schintlmeister A, Schmid MC, Hanson BT, Shterzer N, Mizrahi I, Rauch I, Decker T, Bocklitz T, Popp J, Gibson CM, Fowler PW, Huang WE, Wagner M.	Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A	10.1073/pnas.1420406112	2015
	Development of a swine-specific fecal pollution marker based on host differences in methanogen mcrA genes.	Ufnar JA, Ufnar DF, Wang SY, Ellender RD.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.00319-07	2007
Phylogeny	Communities of endophytic sebacinales associated with roots of herbaceous plants in agricultural and grassland ecosystems are dominated by Serendipita herbamans sp. nov.	Riess K, Oberwinkler F, Bauer R, Garnica S.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0094676	2014

References

#4565	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 11977
#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) .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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 11977, OCM 813, HO)

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_003814835

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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