Methanocaldococcus vulcanius (DSM 12094, M7)

Name: Methanocaldococcus vulcanius (DSM 12094, M7)
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BacDive ID 6983

Type strain

Strain Designation M7

Culture col. no. DSM 12094 M7

NCBI tax ID(s) 73913

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- C. Jeanthon, M7

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

anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 44176

ATCC 700851,DSM 12094

@ref 20215

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

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanococci

Order Methanococcales

Family Methanocaldococcaceae

Genus Methanocaldococcus

Species Methanocaldococcus vulcanius

Full scientific name Methanocaldococcus vulcanius (Jeanthon et al. 1999) Whitman 2002

Synonyms (1)

Methanococcus vulcanius

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
4602	METHANOCALDOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 282)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOCALDOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 282) Composition: MgCl2 x 6 H2O 4.05138 g/l NaHCO3 0.988142 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.494071 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.494071 g/l KCl 0.326087 g/l NH4Cl 0.247036 g/l K2HPO4 0.13834 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0296443 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.0148221 g/l NaCl 0.00988142 g/l Fe(NH4)2(SO4)2 x 6 H2O 0.00988142 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00494071 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00177866 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00177866 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.000988142 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000988142 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.000494071 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.000296443 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.000197628 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.88142e-05 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.88142e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.88142e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.88142e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.94071e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.94071e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.94071e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.94071e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.94071e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.94071e-05 g/l Biotin 1.97628e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.97628e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.95257e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.96443e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.88142e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
4602	positive	growth	80

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
4602	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	90.697
125439	anaerobe	97.7

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Latitude	Longitude
4602	hydrothermal vent chimney, 2600 m depth	East Pacific Rise	12.8	-103.933 12.8/-103.933

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
4602	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	ASM2462v1 assembly for Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7	complete	GCA_000024625	579137.10	646311944	579137	98.66

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
4602	Methanococcus vulcanus 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	AF051404	1424		579137

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
4602	31	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: Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7, DSM 12094
IMG: 646311944

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	61.80	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	52.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	56.50	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	anaerobe	97.70	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Methanocaldococcus vulcanius M7 M7
NCBI: GCA_000024625.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	61.93	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	90.70	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	91.72	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	87.54	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	64.36	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	82.88	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Enzymology	Structural Basis for the Persistence of Homing Endonucleases in Transcription Factor IIB Inteins.	Iwai H, Mikula KM, Oeemig JS, Zhou D, Li M, Wlodawer A.	J Mol Biol	10.1016/j.jmb.2017.10.016	2017
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

#4602	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) .
#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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Methanocaldococcus vulcanius (DSM 12094, M7)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000024625

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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