Name: Methanotorris formicicus Mc-S-70
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6988

Type strain:

Species: Methanotorris formicicus

Strain Designation: Mc-S-70

Culture col. no.: DSM 16983, ATCC BAA-687, JCM 11930

Strain history: K. Takai Mc-S-70.

NCBI tax ID(s): 647171 (strain), 213185 (species)

SI-ID 132786

ATCC BAA-687, JCM 11930, DSM 16983

Section

Methanotorris formicicus Mc-S-70 is an anaerobe, thermophilic archaeon that was isolated from black smoker vent, depth of 2421 m.

anaerobe
thermophilic
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	*Methanotorris*
	Species	**Methanotorris formicicus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanotorris formicicus Takai et al. 2004

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

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #6590]			growth	70 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	70 °C

[Ref.: #6590]	Temperature range	thermophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	thermophilic

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.: #6590]	Sample type/isolated from	black smoker vent, depth of 2421 m
[Ref.: #6590]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Central Indian Ridge, Kairei hydrothermal field
[Ref.: #6590]	Country	International waters
[Ref.: #6590]	Geographic location	-25.3231°/70.0450°

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Black smoker chimney at the Kairei field in the Central Indian Ridge
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

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

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AB100884 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanocaldococcaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	1

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.: #6590]	Methanotorris formicicus rrn gene for small subunit ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB100884	1374	ENA	647171 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Methanotorris formicicus Mc-S-70	GCA_000243455	contig	GenBank	647171 tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanotorris formicicus Mc-S-70	2506520039	draft	JGI IMG/M	647171 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanotorris formicicus Mc-S-70	647171.129	wgs	PATRIC	647171 tax ID	*

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GC-content

33.3 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 16983, ATCC BAA-687, JCM 11930

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SI-ID 132786

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	*

References

#6590

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16983

#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) .

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

#69479

João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

#76449

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-ID132786.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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