Name: Methanococcus aeolicus PL-15/H
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 7000

Type strain:

Species: Methanococcus aeolicus

Strain Designation: PL-15/H

Culture col. no.: DSM 17251, OCM 836

Strain history: <- D. Boone and M. Kendall, Portland State Univ., USA; PL-15/H <- K. Stetter {1980}

NCBI tax ID(s): 42879 (species)

SI-ID 399706

DSM 17251

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Section

Methanococcus aeolicus PL-15/H is an anaerobe, mesophilic archaeon that was isolated from marine sediment.

anaerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Archaea

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	*Methanococcaceae*
	Genus	*Methanococcus*
	Species	**Methanococcus aeolicus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanococcus aeolicus Kendall et al. 2006

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

METHANOGENIUM MEDIUM (H2/CO2) (DSMZ Medium 141)

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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.: #6853]			growth	37 °C

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.: #6853]	Sample type/isolated from	marine sediment
[Ref.: #6853]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Lipari Islands near Sicily
[Ref.: #6853]	Country	Italy
[Ref.: #6853]	Country ISO 3 Code	ITA
[Ref.: #6853]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ136171 (>99% sequence identity) for Methanococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	8
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	7
Plant Samples
Total Samples	15

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.: #6853]	Methanococcus aeolicus strain PL-15/HP 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ136171	1393	GenBank ENA	42879 tax ID

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 17251, OCM 836

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SI-ID 399706

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Methanococcus aeolicus sp. nov., a mesophilic, methanogenic archaeon from shallow and deep marine sediments.	Kendall MM, Liu Y, Sieprawska-Lupa M, Stetter KO, Whitman WB, Boone DR	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64216-0	2006	*
Enzymology	Three new restriction endonucleases MaeI, MaeII and MaeIII from Methanococcus aeolicus.	Schmid K, Thomm M, Laminet A, Laue FG, Kessler C, Stetter KO, Schmitt R	Nucleic Acids Res	10.1093/nar/12.6.2619	1984	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17251

#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 )

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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 .

#76461

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-ID399706.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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