Methanococcus voltae (DSM 4310, PS-6)

Name: Methanococcus voltae (DSM 4310, PS-6)
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BacDive ID 6996

Type strain

Strain Designation PS-6

Culture col. no. DSM 4310 PS-6

NCBI tax ID(s) 2188

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- G. Bertani, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA; PS-6

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Methanococcus voltae PS-6 is an anaerobe archaeon of the family Methanococcaceae.

anaerobe Archaea

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47829

DSM 4310

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:32

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Methanococci

Order Methanococcales

Family Methanococcaceae

Genus Methanococcus

Species Methanococcus voltae

Full scientific name Methanococcus voltae Balch and Wolfe 1981

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Methanococcus voltae** (6)	Type strain
6994	M. voltae PS, DSM 1537, ATCC 33273, OCM 70 (type strain)
6995	M. voltae PS-3, DSM 4254
6997	M. voltae PS-7, DSM 4311
6998	M. voltae DSM 7078, MCM B603
6999	M. voltae P2F9701a, DSM 14649, OCM 745
161888	M. voltae JCM 16865, OCM 197

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1650	METHANOCOCCUS VOLTAE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 391)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: METHANOCOCCUS VOLTAE MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 391) Composition: Casamino acids 5.0 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 2.8 g/l Yeast extract 2.5 g/l Na2CO3 1.5 g/l Na-acetate 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.5 g/l L-Isoleucine 0.5 g/l KCl 0.34 g/l NH4Cl 0.25 g/l L-Leucine 0.25 g/l K2HPO4 0.14 g/l L-Tryptophan 0.05 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.03 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.015 g/l NaCl 0.01 g/l Pantothenate 0.005 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.005 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.001 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.001 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0003 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.0002 g/l H3BO3 0.0001 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.0001 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.0001 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 4e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 3e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1650	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1650

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
1650	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1650	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#1650	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 4310
#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 )
#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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