Name: Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 7001

Type strain:

Species: Methanococcus aeolicus

Strain Designation: Nankai-3

Culture col. no.: DSM 17508, OCM 812

Strain history: <- M. Kendall, Portland State Univ., USA; Nankai-3 <- Y. Liu

NCBI tax ID(s): 42879 (species)

SI-ID 297267

DSM 17508

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Section

Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3 is an anaerobe, thermophilic, motile archaeon that was isolated from deep marine sediment.

coccus-shaped
motile
anaerobe
thermophilic
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	*Methanococcaceae*
	Genus	*Methanococcus*
	Species	**Methanococcus aeolicus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Methanococcus aeolicus Kendall et al. 2006

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #31762]	Cell width	1.5-2 µm

[Ref.: #31762]	Cell shape	coccus-shaped

[Ref.: #31762]	Motility	yes

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #7030]

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

[Ref.: #7030]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

		Temperature
[Ref.: #7030]	growth	40 °C
[Ref.: #31762]	growth	20-55 °C
[Ref.: #31762]	optimum	40-50 °C

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #31762]			optimum	6.5-7.5
[Ref.: #31762]			growth	5.5-7.5

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #7030]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #31762]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe
[Ref.: #69480]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe Confidence in %90.237

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Ability of spore formation

no Confidence in %90.099

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #31762]		NaCl		growth	0.29-5.8	%
[Ref.: #31762]		NaCl		optimum	0.29-5.8	%

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Observation

aggregates in chains

	Metabolite utilization	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #31762]		formate ChEBI	+	carbon source

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

[Ref.: #7030]	Sample type/isolated from	deep marine sediment
[Ref.: #7030]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Nankai Trough
[Ref.: #7030]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #7030]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #7030]	Continent	Asia
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

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

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ195164 (>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.: #7030]	Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ195164	1394	GenBank ENA	419665 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3	GCA_000017185	complete	GenBank ENA	419665 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3	640753034	complete	JGI IMG/M	419665 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3	419665.15	complete	PATRIC	419665 tax ID	*

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GC-content

32 mol%

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: Methanococcus aeolicus Nankai-3 Nankai-3 NCBI: GCA_000017185.1
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	59.3	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	90.237	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	91.029	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.099	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	yes	50.318	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	83.625	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 17508, OCM 812

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SI-ID 297267

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	*

References

#7030

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17508

#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 )

#31762

Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #28035 (see below)

#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) .

#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 .

#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) .

#76462

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-ID297267.1 )

#28035

IJSEM 1525 2006 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64216-0 , PubMed 16825624 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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