Name: Methanotorris igneus DSM 5666
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6987

Type strain:

Species: Methanotorris igneus

Culture col. no.: DSM 5666, JCM 11834, Kol 5

Strain history: DSM 5666 <-- K. O. Stetter and S. Burggraf Kol 5.

NCBI tax ID(s): 880724 (strain), 2189 (species)

SI-ID 47969

DSM 5666, JCM 11834

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Methanotorris igneus DSM 5666 is an anaerobe, hyperthermophilic archaeon that was isolated from marine hydrothermal system.

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	*Methanotorris*
	Species	**Methanotorris igneus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanotorris igneus (Burggraf et al. 1990) Whitman 2002

	Synonym	Methanococcus igneus
	Synonym	"Methanoignis* igneus"*

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.: #2151]			growth	85 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	85 °C

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

	Pathway	Enzyme coverage	Annotated reactions
	Pathway annotation	Computationally determined by
[Ref.: #66794]	ribulose monophosphate pathway	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	methanofuran biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	anapleurotic synthesis of oxalacetate	100	1 of 1
[Ref.: #66794]	factor 420 biosynthesis	100	5 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	biotin biosynthesis	100	4 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	coenzyme A metabolism	100	4 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	sulfopterin metabolism	100	4 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	selenocysteine biosynthesis	100	6 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	UDP-GlcNAc biosynthesis	100	3 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	acetate fermentation	100	4 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	suberin monomers biosynthesis	100	2 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	flavin biosynthesis	93.33	14 of 15
[Ref.: #66794]	coenzyme M biosynthesis	90	9 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	aspartate and asparagine metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	chorismate metabolism	88.89	8 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	6-hydroxymethyl-dihydropterin diphosphate biosynthesis	87.5	7 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	isoleucine metabolism	87.5	7 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	photosynthesis	85.71	12 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	hydrogen production	80	4 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	glycogen metabolism	80	4 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	vitamin B12 metabolism	79.41	27 of 34
[Ref.: #66794]	molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis	77.78	7 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	palmitate biosynthesis	77.27	17 of 22
[Ref.: #66794]	glycogen biosynthesis	75	3 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	methanogenesis from CO2	75	9 of 12
[Ref.: #66794]	cardiolipin biosynthesis	71.43	5 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	glycolysis	70.59	12 of 17
[Ref.: #66794]	threonine metabolism	70	7 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	starch degradation	70	7 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	phenylalanine metabolism	69.23	9 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	pyrimidine metabolism	68.89	31 of 45
[Ref.: #66794]	purine metabolism	68.09	64 of 94
[Ref.: #66794]	nitrate assimilation	66.67	6 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	octane oxidation	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	valine metabolism	66.67	6 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	NAD metabolism	66.67	12 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	L-lactaldehyde degradation	66.67	2 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	heme metabolism	64.29	9 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	gluconeogenesis	62.5	5 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	cellulose degradation	60	3 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	arginine metabolism	58.33	14 of 24
[Ref.: #66794]	glutamate and glutamine metabolism	57.14	16 of 28
[Ref.: #66794]	ubiquinone biosynthesis	57.14	4 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	reductive acetyl coenzyme A pathway	57.14	4 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	serine metabolism	55.56	5 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	d-mannose degradation	55.56	5 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	pentose phosphate pathway	54.55	6 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	vitamin B1 metabolism	53.85	7 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	ethanol fermentation	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	CDP-diacylglycerol biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	dTDPLrhamnose biosynthesis	50	4 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	aminopropanol phosphate biosynthesis	50	1 of 2
[Ref.: #66794]	tyrosine metabolism	50	7 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	C4 and CAM-carbon fixation	50	4 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	alanine metabolism	48.28	14 of 29
[Ref.: #66794]	lysine metabolism	47.62	20 of 42
[Ref.: #66794]	oxidative phosphorylation	47.25	43 of 91
[Ref.: #66794]	sulfate reduction	46.15	6 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	phosphatidylethanolamine bioynthesis	46.15	6 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	lipid metabolism	45.16	14 of 31
[Ref.: #66794]	histidine metabolism	44.83	13 of 29
[Ref.: #66794]	CO2 fixation in Crenarchaeota	44.44	4 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	lipid A biosynthesis	44.44	4 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	polyamine pathway	43.48	10 of 23
[Ref.: #66794]	citric acid cycle	42.86	6 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	propanol degradation	42.86	3 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	tetrahydrofolate metabolism	42.86	6 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	methionine metabolism	42.31	11 of 26
[Ref.: #66794]	tryptophan metabolism	42.11	16 of 38
[Ref.: #66794]	non-pathway related	42.11	16 of 38
[Ref.: #66794]	glycine metabolism	40	4 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	myo-inositol biosynthesis	40	4 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	glycine betaine biosynthesis	40	2 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	methylglyoxal degradation	40	2 of 5
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of hexoses	38.89	7 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	leucine metabolism	38.46	5 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	isoprenoid biosynthesis	38.46	10 of 26
[Ref.: #66794]	urea cycle	38.46	5 of 13
[Ref.: #66794]	ketogluconate metabolism	37.5	3 of 8
[Ref.: #66794]	proline metabolism	36.36	4 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis	36.36	4 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	formaldehyde oxidation	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	IAA biosynthesis	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	cyanate degradation	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	glycolate and glyoxylate degradation	33.33	2 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	acetoin degradation	33.33	1 of 3
[Ref.: #66794]	pantothenate biosynthesis	33.33	2 of 6
[Ref.: #66794]	propionate fermentation	30	3 of 10
[Ref.: #66794]	mevalonate metabolism	28.57	2 of 7
[Ref.: #66794]	vitamin B6 metabolism	27.27	3 of 11
[Ref.: #66794]	catecholamine biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	toluene degradation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	cyclohexanol degradation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of aromatic, nitrogen containing compounds	25	3 of 12
[Ref.: #66794]	lactate fermentation	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	CMP-KDO biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	ppGpp biosynthesis	25	1 of 4
[Ref.: #66794]	ascorbate metabolism	22.73	5 of 22
[Ref.: #66794]	allantoin degradation	22.22	2 of 9
[Ref.: #66794]	cysteine metabolism	22.22	4 of 18
[Ref.: #66794]	glutathione metabolism	21.43	3 of 14
[Ref.: #66794]	degradation of pentoses	21.43	6 of 28
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Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #2151]	Sample type/isolated from	marine hydrothermal system
[Ref.: #2151]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Kolbeinsey
[Ref.: #2151]	Country	Iceland
[Ref.: #2151]	Country ISO 3 Code	ISL
[Ref.: #2151]	Continent	Europe

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Shallow submarine hydrothermal system at the Kolbeinsey ridge
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Iceland
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	ISL
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#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.: #2151]	Methanococcus igneus 16S ribosomal RNA	M59125	1406	GenBank ENA	2189 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanotorris igneus Kol5, DSM 5666	650716056	complete	JGI IMG/M	880724 tax ID	*

[Ref.: #2151]	GC-content	31.0 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	31 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 5666, JCM 11834, Kol 5

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SI-ID 47969

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanofervidicoccus abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic methanogen, isolated from a hydrothermal vent chimney in the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center, the Caribbean Sea.	Sakai S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Ogawara M, Yanagawa K, Miyazaki J, Takai K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003297	2019	*
Phylogeny	Methanotorris formicicus sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a black smoker chimney in the Central Indian Ridge.	Takai K, Nealson KH, Horikoshi K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.02887-0	2004	*
Phylogeny	Methanococcus igneus sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic methanogen from a shallow submarine hydrothermal system.	Burggraf S, Fricke H, Neuner A, Kristjansson J, Rouvier P, Mandelco L, Woese CR, Stetter KO	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80197-9	1990	*

References

#2151

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 5666

#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) .

#66794

Antje Chang, Lisa Jeske, Sandra Ulbrich, Julia Hofmann, Julia Koblitz, Ida Schomburg, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Dieter Jahn, Dietmar Schomburg: BRENDA, the ELIXIR core data resource in 2021: new developments and updates. Nucleic Acids Res. 49: D498 - D508 2020 ( DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa1025 , PubMed 33211880 )

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

#76448

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-ID47969.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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