Name: Methanocaldococcus fervens AG86
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6984

Type strain:

Species: Methanocaldococcus fervens

Strain Designation: AG86

Culture col. no.: DSM 4213, JCM 15782

Strain history: DSM 4213 <-- H. Zhao and M. P. Bryant AG86.

NCBI tax ID(s): 573064 (strain), 83171 (species)

SI-ID 47812

DSM 4213, JCM 15782

Special Collections

DSMZ
JCM

Section

Methanocaldococcus fervens AG86 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from core sample from a deep sea hydrothermal vent.

anaerobe
hyperthermophilic
16S sequence
Archaea
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	09-12-2024 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	*Archaea*
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	*Methanococci*
	Order	*Methanococcales*
	Family	*Methanocaldococcaceae*
	Genus	*Methanocaldococcus*
	Species	**Methanocaldococcus fervens**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanocaldococcus fervens (Jeanthon et al. 1999) Whitman 2002

Synonym

Methanococcus fervens

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #1616]

Culture medium

METHANOCALDOCOCCUS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 282)

[Ref.: #1616]

Culture medium growth

[Ref.: #1616]

Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #1616]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #1616]			growth	85 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	85 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #1616]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #69480]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe Confidence in %90.718

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

[Ref.: #1616]	Sample type/isolated from	core sample from a deep sea hydrothermal vent
[Ref.: #1616]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Gulf of California, Guayamas Basin
[Ref.: #1616]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #1616]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #1616]	Continent	North America

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Hydrothermal vent core sample from Guaymas Basin, at a depth of 2,003 m
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Gulf of California
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	North America
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Hydrothermal vent
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Core sample
#Condition	#Thermophilic (>45°C)	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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

[Ref.: #1616]

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.: #20218]	Methanococcus fervens 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF056938	1398	GenBank ENA	573064 tax ID	*

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanocaldococcus fervens AG86	GCA_000023985	complete	GenBank ENA	573064 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanocaldococcus fervens AG86	644736385	complete	JGI IMG/M	573064 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanocaldococcus fervens AG86	573064.13	plasmid	PATRIC	573064 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanocaldococcus fervens AG86	573064.11	complete	PATRIC	573064 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #1616]	GC-content	33.0 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	33 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

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

	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Methanocaldococcus fervens AG86 AG86 NCBI: GCA_000023985.1
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	63.305	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	90.718	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	91.908	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	89.036	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	64.523	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	82.875	no

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #1616]

Culture collection no.

DSM 4213, JCM 15782

[Ref.: #76445]

SI-ID 47812

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

#1616

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 4213

#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 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#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) .

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#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) .

#76445

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-ID47812.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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