Name: Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6983

Type strain:

Species: Methanocaldococcus vulcanius

Strain Designation: M7

Culture col. no.: DSM 12094

Strain history: <- C. Jeanthon, M7

NCBI tax ID(s): 73913 (species)

SI-ID 44176

ATCC 700851, DSM 12094

Section

Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from hydrothermal vent chimney, 2600 m depth.

anaerobe
hyperthermophilic
16S sequence
Archaea
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	*Methanococci*
	Order	*Methanococcales*
	Family	*Methanocaldococcaceae*
	Genus	*Methanocaldococcus*
	Species	**Methanocaldococcus vulcanius**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanocaldococcus vulcanius (Jeanthon et al. 1999) Whitman 2002

Synonym

Methanococcus vulcanius

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

METHANOCALDOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 282)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #4602]			growth	80 °C

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Temperature range

hyperthermophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #4602]	Sample type/isolated from	hydrothermal vent chimney, 2600 m depth
[Ref.: #4602]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	East Pacific Rise
[Ref.: #4602]	Geographic location	12.8000°/-103.9330°
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #4602]	Methanococcus vulcanus 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	AF051404	1424	ENA	579137 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7	GCA_000024625	complete	GenBank	579137 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7, DSM 12094	646311944	complete	JGI IMG/M	579137 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7	579137.10	complete	PATRIC	579137 tax ID	*

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GC-content

31 mol%

thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7 M7 NCBI: GCA_000024625.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	85.021	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	94.012	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	96.04	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	yes	99.235	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	no	97.159	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	87.15	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	96.35	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	63.624	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	yes	99.502	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	55.171	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 12094

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SI-ID 44176

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanococcus vulcanius sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic methanogen isolated from East Pacific Rise, and identification of Methanococcus sp. DSM 4213T as Methanococcus fervens sp. nov.	Jeanthon C, L'Haridon S, Reysenbach AL, Corre E, Vernet M, Messner P, Sleytr UB, Prieur D	Int J Syst Bacteriol	10.1099/00207713-49-2-583	1999	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 12094

#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) .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#76444

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID44176.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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